O/T (sort of) - What's your greatest baseball memorabilia score?

[sox83cubs84]

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A weird set of transactions regarding a mid-1990s Sammy Sosa GU HR baseball:

I bought the ball from the guy who chased it down on the street for $20.

I sold it to a collector for $300.

8 years later, I bought it back from the SAME collector for $76 (via eBay).

Shortly after that, I sold it again to a different collector, again for $300.

I wonder how soon I'll see it on eBay a second time?

Dave Miedema

[panthrotc]

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The always talked about but rarely ever seen Game Used & inscribed
Home Run Bat. McGwire was known to give away HR notated bats to friends, family, and teammates. They never pop up for sale. In all my years of tracking his memorabilia since I first joined the Internet back in 99, I have seen only 3 that I can recall and 2 of them are in the HOF and the other belongs to Jeff Scott of bird bats.

I got my greastest score by Trading 2500$ and a signed game issued 98 McGwire bat in return for such a bat

Used to Hit Career HR 576 on August 21,2001 in Cinncinatti off of
Juan Acevedo. It was then signed and inscribed by Mac and given to fellow Teammate Relief Pitcher Steve Klein. Klein gave the bat to a dealer friend who also resided in the small farm town out in the boondocks of Prnnsylvania.*
I made the 3 Hr trip by car to make the deal in person.*





Here is a link to the video highlight of the HR

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t25/longball98/GIFS/Live%20Action%20Gifs/McGwire8-21-01-1.mp4

[MikeSharon]

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[frikativ54]

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A a game used Biggio autographed and uncracked from a dealer for new york who did know how tough his stuff was at the national of $75

Who did know? And he still sold it to you for $75?!?! Wow.

[MikeSharon]

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I have 4 really good scores-these were all several years ago
a pair of 85 Ryan Game used cleats from his son Reese $75

an 80's Reggie Jackson Angels road that the guy thought was a replica, he didnt believe me when i told him it was real so i paid $115

a mid 70's Ryan Angels that was a size 46(later confirmed that he wore that size because he would gain weight for the number of innings he pitched) for $600

A a game used Biggio autographed and uncracked from a dealer for new york who did know how tough his stuff was at the national of $75

[sammy]

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Purchased a Mickey Mantle autographed jersey on eBay for the BIN price of 750.00.

Sold it a few months later for 3400.00.

[sox83cubs84]

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I made a trade with a game-used dealer not known for being a very good researcher (no, it wasn't Wayne Otto) and picked up a 1973 Red Sox road knit of who he perceived to be Rick Burleson, despite the fact that Orlando Cepeda had signed it. I saw the difference in sizing between Burleson (a diminutive guy), and the jersey (a 44) and pulled the trigger. In short, I spent about $125 in merchandise on a genuine '73 Cepeda jersey (which I've seen in a couple of major auction since).

Dave Miedema

[jake33]

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Doesn't get much better than "Free 99"

Won an auction from the Rays back in 2009. Was supposed to have Game worn catcher's gear from Michel Hernandez, mask, 2 shins guards and chest protector. All were MLB authenticated for $120 total. Thought that was a good deal for game sued photomatched and mlb authenticated cather's gear (each piece), but the icing was the item below...

THe Rays forgot to mention in the auction title AND description his cather's helmet was included AND MLB authenticated. Had the helmet autographed by Michel this year in superb silver sharpie. Had help running down Michel from a friend of his, very nice guy indeed.

[OaklandAsFan]

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Way back in the day I had the baseball address list book and I was looking up Devon Whites address to send him some card TTM to get signed and one of the addresses around his name looked familiar, it looked like an address in the senior community that my grandfather lived in so I asked him about it and he stopped by the address on one of his afternoon walks.

Turns out this was Donald White who played for the Philadelphia Athletics back in the late 40's. He had just recently passed away and his widow gave my grandfather a baseball to give to me. a 1948 Philadelphia Athletics team ball signed by the likes of Connie Mack and Al Simmons etc.

Unfortunately the ball was stolen by someone who I thought was a friend many years ago but it was pretty awesome to own that in my early teen years!

[jcking2722]

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I bought a 1931 Notre Dame signed football from a guy off of Craigslist in Chicago for $340 shipped and sold it for $4,031 on eBay 38 days later.

I also bought a 1990 UNLV Championship Team signed Official NCAA Basketball for $45 and sold it on eBay for $1200 a few months later.

Those two have to be the best flips I have made. Very cool hearing everyone's stories, thanks for sharing.

Josh

[cjw]

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From am amazing find standpoint...it would have to be the roughly 400 complete sets of 1992 and 1993 ALCS and World Series, home game (Toronto) Blue Jays tickets I got for free.

I managed Windows restaurant in the SkyDome in 1994 and found a case of these tix that were printed for the restaurant members but not handled out in 1992 or 1993. The diners had ticket master style tix too.

My boss said "chuck' em...but I asked if I could keep them. I gave all my buddies a set, sold quite a few, traded more and still have 2 full, mint sets (sorry neither are for sale).

[frikativ54]

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My ex aunt (uncle and her are divorced) her father was the head score keeper for the Vancouver Canucks and in 1989 my uncle and I went to see Montreal play in Vancouver and we got too meet all the Canadiens and had access to there dressing room after the game. I had my program signed by everyone on the team at the time.

Patrick Roy did not play in that game and I was all bummed because he was my favorite (and probably still is). I did not see him in the dressing room and started to walk out and my uncle said "Patrick" I turned around and he had just emerged from whatever he was doing. Anyways I told him that I really enjoyed watching him play and he inspired me to be a goaltender. He was very cool (i was 12 at the time) It just came out and I asked for his jersey. At the age of 12 it's like you say anything you want LOL. He told us to hold on a sec he started speaking french to the equipment manager and he came back with a ROAD RED gamer. That is how I obtained my Patrick Roy jersey. My center piece of my collection. I also managed to pick up a signed goalie stick from Brian Hayward.

That's really, really awesome. I love a good story about an athlete making a kid's day. Those guys may not realize it, but they can have such an influence on a young person's life, just through a small deed of kindness.

[Lokee]

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My ex aunt (uncle and her are divorced) her father was the head score keeper for the Vancouver Canucks and in 1989 my uncle and I went to see Montreal play in Vancouver and we got too meet all the Canadiens and had access to there dressing room after the game. I had my program signed by everyone on the team at the time.

Patrick Roy did not play in that game and I was all bummed because he was my favorite (and probably still is). I did not see him in the dressing room and started to walk out and my uncle said "Patrick" I turned around and he had just emerged from whatever he was doing. Anyways I told him that I really enjoyed watching him play and he inspired me to be a goaltender. He was very cool (i was 12 at the time) It just came out and I asked for his jersey. At the age of 12 it's like you say anything you want LOL. He told us to hold on a sec he started speaking french to the equipment manager and he came back with a ROAD RED gamer. That is how I obtained my Patrick Roy jersey. My center piece of my collection. I also managed to pick up a signed goalie stick from Brian Hayward.

[richpick]

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I found a game worn 1982 St. Louis Cardinals Keith Hernandez jersey at a flea market for $10 and then auctioned it off through Mastro and it sold for $1,987

Found a 1977-1979 H&B Game Used team Index Bat that I bought at an auction for $200 that sold for $1,531

These were both semi-recent finds

Back in about 1990 I bought a game worn 1985 Boston Red Sox game worn home Roger Clemens jersey for $750 and sold it in August 2006 for $4,376

Richpick

[mariner_gamers]

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In 1998 I traded 8 McGwire Olympic cards for an early game used Griffey Jr. Cooper bat. Having been a McGwire fan and collector I had about 35 Oly cards and I was in them about $10 apiece. Next would be the 8 McGwire Olympic cards I traded for a game used and signed Arod bat from circa 1996. Lastly I purchased a 1969 Mantle white letter variation for $50 at a card show in 1991. I traded it for a pair of game used and auto'd Griffey Jr. high top cleats from '91. While the McGwire's made the first two possible I did not "score" them instead I collected them over time and got extremely lucky.