Sports Memorabilia News Headlines from Around the Country and Across the World.
The Los Angeles Galaxy are giving sports fans and collectors plenty of reasons to come to the team’s final home game of 2009 above and beyond MLS superstar David Beckham.
When the Galaxy hosts the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday, Oct. 24, the team will also be holding its annual Fan Appreciation Day. Fans in attendance [...]
The deals that athletes sign for companies to market their autographed sports memorabilia don’t seem too complicated on the surface. Players are paid a specified amount of money in exchange for a contracted number of signatures, appearances or the like. Simple, right?
Perhaps the arrangements aren’t as cut and dried as they appear, because several of [...]
A Babe Ruth game-used bat, dating to the Boston Red Sox’ 1918 World Series winning season sold for $537,750 at Heritage Auctions Signature Sports Memorabilia Auction earlier this month. Collectively the auction sales totaled more than $4.2 million.
“We saw very solid results across the board,” said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports at Heritage Auctions. [...]
The U.S. government’s recent program to help subsidize the purchase of new cars, known to most people as “Cash for Clunkers,” was a definite success. Sales of fuel efficient vehicles took off despite the lingering recession, and the initiative proved so popular that it had to be propped up with additional funds.
There has been talk [...]
If you watched any of the action from Week 4 of the 2009 NFL season, you may have thought something was wrong with the color on your television. Specifically, it may have looked like there was too much… pink.
That wasn’t a glitch in your flat screen. The NFL is teaming up with the American Cancer [...]
All baseball fans know that the best place to see memorabilia and artifacts from throughout the history of the sport is the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. But those same fans might be surprised to find that a museum in the Sunshine State may be the next best thing for people who can’t [...]
McFarlane Toys has announced plans for a new program directed at sports collectors. The purpose of the McFarlane Collector Level program is to incorporate more limited edition and highly collectible sports figures into McFarlane sports products then ever before.
“We’ve created this new program based on feedback we received from our fans over the years. The [...]
After two straight injury-plagued campaigns, Dwyane Wade returned to the form that made him one of the NBA’s most exciting and widely collected players during the 2008-09 season. Unfortunately, a series of lawsuits has prevented the Miami Heat superstar from concentrating on basketball during the summer.
Now Wade’s attorneys are looking to mediation to make sure [...]
It’s only one game into the NFL season, and Chicago Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher is already having a year he’d probably like to forget. The leader of the Bears defense, already no stranger to injuries, didn’t even make it through one half of football before dislocating his wrist, forcing him out of action for the [...]
The Pretend City Children’s Museum in Irvine, Calif., recently ended its 12-year journey of development by celebrating its grand opening. Both the ribbon-cutting ceremony and the museum’s fundraising efforts got a boost thanks to the presence of the area’s biggest sports star, L.A. Lakers guard Kobe Bryant.
Bryant lent his signature to an unusual piece of [...]
Last Friday Derek Jeter made history by dethroning long time record holder Lou Gehrig to become the New York Yankees all-time hits record holder. Steiner Sports holds the exclusive memorabilia licensing rights to Derek Jeter and they are putting it to good use with their newly announced Derek Jeter “Record Breaking Hit” Collection. This brand [...]
Not too many sports enthusiasts can afford to dabble in collecting original works of art signed by star athletes of their time. Even fewer can say they commissioned that artwork from a modern day artist as talented and well known as Andy Warhol.
Los Angeles businessman Richard Weisman is the exception, as he had Warhol do [...]
When the Sports Collectibles division of Heritage Auction Galleries rolls out its latest Signature Sports Memorabilia Auction on the first weekend of October, it will showcase rare signed items from two of America’s most beloved sports icons – as well as a number of pieces from a figure who’s recently become infamous.
Autographed documents from Joe [...]
Two larger than life personalities with ties to the Windy City are the big draws as Hunt Auctions prepares for its upcoming Basketball Auction in Chicago.
Michael Jordan and Barack Obama items are the headliners for Hunt’s September 17 auction at the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. Thanks to a partnership with Upper Deck [...]
Darrell Waltrip starts off every NASCAR race on Fox with a line that’s become well known to fans: ”Boogity, boogity, boogity, let’s go racin’ boys!” The three-time former champ of stock car racing’s top circuit is so fond of the catchphrase that he had it trademarked in 2005.
That’s proven to be a problem for a small sports [...]
Fans are getting used to the new Yankee Stadium, which appears to have some good early karma as the Bronx Bombers have the best record in Major League Baseball. Meanwhile, its predecessor bid farewell to another one of its signature details, a feature that collectors will have a chance to get their hands on soon.
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