Sports Radio Personality Lists Massive Sports Card and Memorabilia Collection on eBay
Sports radio personality Mark Wilson has built up a formidable sports card and memorabilia collection during his long and distinguished career covering professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey for various radio stations in the Detroit area. Due to an upcoming move Wilson has decided to sell his entire collection in one fell swoop via eBay.
Wilson's collection features thousands upon thousands of vintage 1960's and 1970's Topps baseball cards. Many of these cards are of stars and minor stars, including Mickey Mantle, Nolan Ryan, Roberto Clemente, and many more. Other sports cards in the collection include vintage basketball, hockey and football cards from the 1960’s and 1970’s
On the sports memorabilia side of things is a rare orange ball that Charles O. Finley created to replace the traditional MLB-sanctioned white ball, as well as autographed baseballs from a number of MLB Hall of Famers such as Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks, as wells as a ball signed by The Tenors.
Other notable sports memorabilia for sale in Wilson's collection includes Sam Snead's golf clubs, a Trek bike, and the first edition of Sports Illustrated magazine, as well numerous press credentials and media guides from various Super Bowls, PGA events, NFL, MLB and NBA games.
During Mark Wilson's time as a sports radio broadcaster in the Detroit market, he received the Michigan Association of Broadcasters' "Michigan Sportscaster of the Year". Prior to his radio career, Wilson wrote for Detroit's cultural weekly Real Detroit and The Observer andamp; Eccentric newspapers. Wilson co-hosted Parker andamp; The Man with Rob Parker (Wilson was the 'Man') on three different Detroit radio stations over the span of almost a decade. The final show aired on Detroit's 1200 AM WCHN on June 9th, 2008.
Mark Wilson's complete sports card and sports memorabilia collection can be found here.

VOTC | Jun 6, 2009 | Reply
OMG would someone tell that guy to please untie the string from those vintage cards!!!!
Mike Smeth | Jun 6, 2009 | Reply
Seriously! That is exactly how I reacted when I saw it. You would think that would kind of be common knowledge among collectors these days, but apparently not.