Closing tonight - Sandy Koufax Memorabilia Collection at Auction

[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.

[rlevy]

Friendly bump reminder that the second session of the auctions closes tonight.

Rick

[Topnotchsy]

How do you feel about the way things ended.

I thought the perfect game lineup sold well, but was surprised at how low the others went (except for maybe one of them).

My lineup cards generally did shockingly poorly outside of the Ripken 3000th which did ok, albeit below estimates.

[rlevy]

Jeff, auctions are so unpredictable, especially with one-of-a-kind items. I do think the items had good exposure in the catalogs and online. But I did think they were all going to be displayed at the National, but apparently not all of my items were there. That may have been a factor, but who knows.

I was a little wary about putting 15 Koufax items in one auction with individual 30 minute closings, since collectors have to pick which items to go after and can't circle back to items once they are closed. That may have happened with the lineup cards, which were among the first to close. I also know one collector on the east coast who fell asleep and missed getting in bids on several items and was kicking himself Monday morning for missing out.

The puzzler for me is I see that a 1965 WS game 1 stub, which he famously sat out for Yom Kippur, signed by Koufax, went for over $10,000 My 1965 WS game 7 lineup cards, where he actually played and pitched his second shutout in 3 days, signed by Koufax, went for only $3,900. While not logical to me, I think it just depends on what collectors find they like at the moment.

Rick