"Life Used" Items

[godwulf]

Hard to catalog this one, but when I was a young man, they made the movie Slapshot in my Great Uncle's hometown of Johnstown, PA. It was actually shot inside the stadium that still exists there, The War Memorial.

Well, long story short, but that van Paul drives around in the movie? That was my Uncle Joe's van. He kept it and those God awful ugly curtains they added for another decade, because Paul Newman drove his van!

Wow, that's like a whole new category of stuff: things of yours that a celebrity used!

On the subject of vehicles, did anybody see the movie Switchback? Danny Glover drives a Cadillac, the interior of which is completely covered in porn photos. No, I don't have the car, unfortunately, but I do have the license plate from it. And the license plate off the van that Stallone drove in Rocky Balboa.

Back to life-used items, though, a while back, I bought Steve Finley's 2006 SF Giants laminated parking pass, and the guy I got it from mentioned that he'd gotten it at a yard sale that Finley had. That's a yard sale I wish I'd have known about; I'd have driven to San Diego just for that, and I'm sure I'd have collected a great many "life-used" items from it.

[harpt]

That post reminds me of a little item I picked up at Bill Schroeder's (former Packer's receiver) rummage sale a few years ago. It's a golf shirt that he got for playing in Mike Webster's golf tourny.

Webster, of course is a Wisconsin and Pittsburgh Steeler great. The shirt has a cartoon picture (stiched) of Mike and says something like "Iron Mike's Golf Tournament."

So, it's "life Used" by Schroader, but I think of it as a Mike Webster item.

[Vintagedeputy]

I have a construction contract signed by former Phillies whiz kid Granny Hamner and his wife when they had their house built here in Richmond, Va. Also have a stack of old checks from the builder to various sub-contractors for work on the house.

[Vintagedeputy]

Funny thought too....at Yankees fantasy camp in January, I almost picked up one of Darryl Strawberry's dugout smoked cigarette butts.

[ironmanfan]

Does this count? A Cal Ripken Jr. Visa receipt from a Chilli's restaurant in Kansas City back in 1987 (I bought it from the store manager):

[godwulf]

Funny thought too....at Yankees fantasy camp in January, I almost picked up one of Darryl Strawberry's dugout smoked cigarette butts.

Everybody's collecting parameters are a little different from everybody else's. Personally, I would draw the line at a cigarette butt or a discarded piece of gum, but there are a couple of players whose dugout-used paper cup or bubble gum wrapper I can see myself squirreling away. I can certainly see where other people would consider that kind of thing really odd, bordering on creepy, though. Not jockstrap-creepy, at least...

[camarokids]

I got an email a few weeks ago from some auction place, offering for sale a huge list of items that hadn't sold at auction, and many of them were advertised as being from the estate of Cy Young. I sent them an email right away, offering to buy several items, including at least one of the estate items, one of those big old-fashioned door keys, and I never heard back from them.

Anyway, I recall that I also have a couple of R.J. Reynolds items - his high school letter jacket, and a gold-colored, monogrammed metal card case with a couple of Japanese bills in it.

I bet it was Historic Auctions. They had a bunch of his.....

http://www.historicauctions.com/sear...ategoryid/142/

[frikativ54]

I bet it was Historic Auctions. They had a bunch of his.....

http://www.historicauctions.com/sear...ategoryid/142/

What item are you linking to? The link gives me an error.

-Frik

[godwulf]

Yeah, it was Historic Auctions, as a matter of fact. It looks like the key from the Cy Young estate is gone now, but they still have a few of his items. They have eight pages of "zero bid" items, but they don't seem to be too responsive to people who want to buy them. I guess I'll email them again, but I'm not holding my breath.