Closing tonight - Sandy Koufax Memorabilia Collection at Auction

[rlevy]

After over 35 years collecting Sandy Koufax vintage items, I have decided to part with many pieces of my collection through Heritage’s Platinum auction. The majority of the items are unique and one-of-a kind, and include:

1. The Chicago Cubs dugout lineup card from Sandy Koufax’s Perfect game 9/9/65.
2. A game-used baseball from Game 4 of the 1963 World Series when the Dodgers completed the sweep of the Yankees, with photomatch.
3. Line-up cards from Koufax World Series wins in the 1963 and 1965 World Series.
4. Full tickets to the Koufax perfect game and his first 2 no-hitters.
5. A full Elsie the Borden Cow ticket to Koufax’s first win in 1955.
6. Koufax contract to play winter baseball in Puerto Rico in 1956.
7. Koufax military ID card
8. 1963 Unopened Jell-o Box with Koufax on the back
9. A beautiful George Sosnak folk art baseball commemorating Koufax’s 3rd no-hitter
10. A 1955 Spring training roster program, with 50 signatures, signed by nearly everyone in camp that spring (incl. Robinson, Campy, Snider,Reese,Koufax,Hodges,Drysdale- who wouldn’t make the team until 1956,Lasorda,Alston,Scully, and O’Malley).
11. An x-ray of Koufax’s pitching elbow taken by the team Dr. Robert Kerlan in August 1964.

The first 2 items close Saturday, August 23, the rest close Sunday August 24. A link to these items is below. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have on these items.

http://sports.ha.com/c/search.zx?sal...preview-notice

Rick Levy

[RICHIEHARRIS]

Hi Rick…
As a huge Koufax fan, that’s quite a listing!
Hope you do well with the sales.
I think I’d have to cringe seeing what was in the X-Ray…but not as much as if I saw one taken after the 1966 season…after two more years of complete games on that arm!
Take care!
-Richie

[Scott Garner]

Wow, Rick- incredible!
I wish you great success with your sale

For those that don't know, Rick's Koufax collection is Epic!!
This is the good stuff!

[rlevy]

Thanks Richie and Scott. still have a week to go, it will be interesting to see where these items end up.

Rick

[doug.goodman]

Best of luck Rick!

[RICHIEHARRIS]

If anyone wants to send Sandy a birthday card for his upcoming 90th on 12/30 his post office box address is:
6001 North Hwy A-1A
Vero Beach, FL 32963

No guarantees that it is accepted; he has been refusing mail...mostly packages...but if you write "Happy Birthday" on the envelope the ladies at the P.O. may send it through.
Check to see if Kara still works at the P.O....she determines what goes through or not.

[Snapolit1]

Photos and memorabilia hard to predict. Sometimes they obliterate expectatioons/estimates and other times they don't. I've had it both ways this year. Photos, ticket stubs, scorecards are sought by collectors and not flippers, "investors". Demand is not equivalent.

I was watching a photo in Heritage where the estimate was "$40,000 +" It sold for $10,500. Other photos hit there estimates, and others did not.

Don't see quite the feeding frenzy for memorabilia, other than of course the Ruth and Gehrig jerseys type stuff.