Mar26th

Unique Photo-Op Booth at Sun Times Show

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 6:11 pm | Filed Under Autographs, Card Shows

Schwartz Sports - a co-promoter of the Chicago Sun Times Show taking place this weekend - is offering a unique opportunity to fans:  get an 8 x 10 picture taken with an athlete, then have the athlete sign the photo of you and the athlete.  Not all signers at the show are available for this […]

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Mar1st

My Favorite Customers

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 9:54 am | Filed Under Autographs, eBay

Old readers will remember the anonymous Dick Richards - an owner of a sports collectibles business who bluntly wrote intriguing articles about the industry…including Adam Morrison’s gauze on eBay.  Occasionally he still checks in with some insight.  I got this email from him the other day:
As a person who runs a small time sports memorabilia […]

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Dec13th

Steiner Sports Steroid Promotion Goes Bad

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 5:36 pm | Filed Under MLB, Autographs

Last night I received this email in my inbox:

Creative? Yes. Funny? Yes. Offensive? Apparently to some. This afternoon just before the Mitchell Report was released Steiner emailed the following statement:
Valued Customer,
Steiner Sports would like to offer its sincerest apologies to those who were offended by our George Mitchell email […]

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Jul25th

How Popular is Greg Oden?

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 4:44 pm | Filed Under Autographs, Topps, NBA

Apparently not very (popular, that is). If you plan on being in Cleveland next Friday for the National Collector’s Convention Topps is giving you the “once in a lifetime” chance to meet Oden, have your photo taken with him, and receive a special autographed Allen & Ginter card limited to 100. Oh, you […]

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Mar22nd

Jim Thorpe cut auto goes for $13,500 on eBay

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:32 pm | Filed Under NFL, Autographs, Cards

Couple the fact that Jim Thorpe is maybe the greatest overall athlete of all-time (personally I’ll put Jimmy #2 behind Bo Jackson) with the fact that he died in 1953 (long before people started hoarding athletes for autographs), and it’s not hard to see why collectors will flock at anything autographed by Thorpe.

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