Closing Tonight - Love of the Game Fall Premier Auction

Al C.risafulli · #1 11-29-2025, 10:26 AM

Hi all:

Just a quick note to let you all know that tonight is the closing night of Love of the Game's Fall Premier Auction. Extended bidding begins at 9pm EST.

A few items I thought I'd point out:

• Two EXTREMELY rare Old Judges from 1890 - Cap Anson and Sliding Billy Hamilton. These cards are both just great, and sometimes I worry that the rarity of the 1890 Old Judges is misunderstood by folks that see cards like N172 Ansons frequently.

• A rare complete set of 1923-24 Billiken Matanzas cards. The cards in the set are much more rare than regular Billiken cards, with some of these examples the only surviving ones known.

• A nice 1936 World Wide Gum DiMaggio (RC), a very attractive midgrade example of a tough, tough card.

We've got a host of N173s (including a couple of rare dark mounts), a large 19th Century collection, a great assortment of rare regional issues, and for those of you who get into postwar vintage, a large grouping of high-grade 1960 Topps baseball cards that are very affordable right now.

Once again, good luck to all our bidders and consignors!

-Al

pawpawdiv9 · #2 Yesterday, 08:36 AM

I had nice results on my Big heads
Most of the commons went about average
The Ruth & Cobb did as I expected
But the Hornsby killed it!!!
Got more than what I was offering here-
Looking forward to see if any made it to Net54

LEHR · #3 Yesterday, 09:25 AM

Looks like everything I bid on went for strong prices. I managed to pick up one piece. Probably overpaid. Don’t really care.

Casey2296 · #4 Yesterday, 01:39 PM

Thanks for another fantastic auction Al, was able to add another Texas Tommy to the PC.

edhans · #5 Today, 07:59 AM

I was wondering if you were going after that TT, Phil. Very glad you got it.

Leon · #6 Today, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Thanks for another fantastic auction Al, was able to add another Texas Tommy to the PC.

Nice pickup. Love the TTs... I had my eye on that but went for this, as it was from my first collection too, and is back home now.

BioCRN · #7 Today, 10:37 AM

I'm very happy to have finally closed the book on the last high-dollar card needed for my graded Cubs collection with a King Kelly pickup. I've been working on this particular collection for almost 27 years and thankfully a handful of those high-dollar cards were purchased before they became high-dollar cards in this current market.

It was more than I planned on bidding, but a strong week on my investments going into the holiday weekend made it easy to tack an extra 1200 more than I wanted as a ceiling.

There's only 3 N172 Kelly cards with him in a Chicago jersey and I'm a bit tired of chasing and failing while the price to buy into the chase keeps going up.

Now all that's left on the high end is a few cards in the 800-1200 range. I'm very happy to have the N172 Kelly chase behind me with a nice looking example.

It also seems to be the given example in the "OJ Book" so it may have been someone's card on this board.

4815162342 · #8 Today, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leon

Nice pickup. Love the TTs... I had my eye on that but went for this, as it was from my first collection too, and is back home now.

I�m glad your E222 made its way back home, Leon. I was able to pick up one as well.

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