How not to get Stadium memorabilia

[Vintagedeputy]

Re: How not to get Stadium memorabilia

Hi, David.

Did you see the current SI issue? There's a small article about collecting items from stadiums that are going to be demolished. It shows a picture of a couple walking on the field carrying a pair of Yankee Stadium seats before the stadium renovation in the 70's. Apparently, the fans were allowed to do this back then.

OT, but I had a chance to talk with Carl Erskine at my Dodger camp earlier this year at Dodgertown in Vero Beach. I asked what he did with his Brooklyn Dodger uniforms. He said he gave them away because they were taking up too much space in his closet! He mentioned that he had no idea at the time that the uniforms would be worth so much money. But, he did keep team-signed balls and some bats.


My, how times have changed.

Kind Regards,

Ron.

Rsamiano@aol.com

I once asked former Giants and Cardinals backup catcher Sal Yvars about his old uniforms. He said that he lent a Cards uni out to some neighborhood kid for a halloween costume and the kid never returned it.

Jim

[cjclong]

Re: How not to get Stadium memorabilia

CJ LONG contact me i have a yankee stadium orig. seat

Thanks, but I am looking for a seat that was in the stadium the day the last regular scheduled game is played there against Baltimore in September of this year.

[hiramman]

Re: How not to get Stadium memorabilia

I've got a few stadium chairs and for me it all depends on the shape of the chair when I get it. My Yankee Stadium & Ebbets Field chairs were already restored when I got them. My Fulton County Stadium chair was in such bad shape that I had to restore it, to make it presentable. My Wrigley Field chair was in good shape, so I left it alone. For me they just need to look good.


Ebbets Field


Yankee Stadium & Wrigley Field


Atlanta Fulton County Stadium