Garage Sales , Estate Sales

[packs]

Not an estate/garage sale find, but I purchased this baseball on eBay. The auction had no photo and a BIN of $80. The description mentioned a 1930s baseball signed by GL Alexander. Guess who it turned out to be?



Not a bad deal. In total it cost me $230.

[bh3443]

I was delighted to see this thread because my Mom and Sister just called me and are bringing me 2 shoe boxes full of early 1970's BB, FB and Basktball cards that they purchased at a Yard Sale after Church today.
Mom and Jane have been around cards basically for 40 years and both worked for me at my shows and shops so they know their cards! They say i'll be very, very happy with these! The price was $50 for everything. Everything is over 2000 cards and some misc. memorabilia.
I'll post some of the contents later!
It's awesome having my women ( Mom, Sister, Wife, Kids) hunting cards for me! They usually do well!

Regards,

Bill Hedin

[ruth-gehrig]

Sounds good! Congrats

[KingKongBundy]

I used to go to the Sussex County N.J. flea market as a young teenager. In 1981, while scouring the various booths for possible 'Graig Nettles' Fleer error cards that someone unsuspecting soul might have for sale, this guy asked me if I was interested in baseball cards. Well, as luck would have it I was. He then proceeded to show me stacks of 1952 to perhaps 1970 Topps cards. He offered me the fabled 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle for $300 (at the time it may well have been 3 Million because there was no way my father was going to spend $300 on a baseball card). My collecting buddy and I did pick up a bunch of 1960s 'star' cards for maybe $20 total. When I resumed my interest in collecting a few years ago, a 1964 Yaz and 1965 Yaz I purchased from this guy came back PSA 8. Wish I had the 1952 Topps, though.

Charles

[Dalkiel]

My best sports pickup was from an auction. The daughter of the former owner/president of the Detroit Red Wings auctioned off some of her mother's trophies including a super-cool game puck that had the name of the entire team inscribed in a silver band around the edge. I bought all three trophies and sold them through Classic Auctions in Canada in their last auction.

Other stuff I've picked up included a booklet of 1930's Boy Scout badges that were some type ("Wide Crimped") that were only made for a short time and sold those on eBay for $3k. Recently I picked up a White House index card signed by Teddy Roosevelt for $25 (sold for $750 on eBay). I also got a surveyor's GPS system for $50 that sold for $1300 on eBay.

[tachyonbb]

Dan, great pickup on your Capital Beach picture. I was always under the impression that the baseball diamond was kindof makeshift as I have newspaper articles which state that chairs were moved from Antelope park to Capital Beach for Sunday games. Sunday games were still banned in Lincoln so they moved the chairs to the beach for Sunday games.

The spelling is also interesting. I have a couple of early postcards which call it Capitol Beach, but this is clearly using Capital instead of Capitol.

[Collectorsince62]

Many years ago, I ran an ad in a small neighborhood paper. An older gentleman called and said he had a wooden cheese box, nailed shut, that he thought contained baseball cards. I dropped everything and met him. He opened the box, literally clawing out the nails with a hammer, to reveal about 150 cards stacked side by side so you couldn't readily identify them. But one card was flat across the top. It was a '33 Goudey Ruth - in fair condition. The rest were 1940 Play Balls, all in excellent shape. Cost me $120. Was lucky enough to find another '33 Goudey Ruth at a sidewalk sale back in the 80's. It was fair, with some glue residue on the back, but who cares? It was still a Babe Ruth card. Set me back a whopping $5.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by tachyonbb

Dan, great pickup on your Capital Beach picture. I was always under the impression that the baseball diamond was kindof makeshift as I have newspaper articles which state that chairs were moved from Antelope park to Capital Beach for Sunday games. Sunday games were still banned in Lincoln so they moved the chairs to the beach for Sunday games.

The spelling is also interesting. I have a couple of early postcards which call it Capitol Beach, but this is clearly using Capital instead of Capitol.

Bruce, I'm not convinced that picture is at Capitol Beach..I think it may be Antelope Park, but they just used it on their advertising because the team would play Sunday ball out there.