WOW!!!! Auction for Kirk Gibsons' items from Dodgers

[cardinalcollector]

"I don't believe what I just read" !

[autograf]

Congrats to Doug & Chad.....great items for an already great collection!

[Jacklitsch]

Originally Posted by autograf

Congrats to Doug & Chad.....great items for an already great collection!

+1

[baseballart]

+1 +1. Great people, and congrats.

[prewarsports]

As a 34 year old, I had never seen anything like the Gibson HR when it happened and still have seen nothing else like it 20 years later (Save maybe the Boise State Fiesta Bowl game a few years ago). I remember I was heavy into Strat O Matic Baseball that year with my friends and Eckersley was unhittable. Possibly the best year for a closer in ML history and the situation for Gibson was the closest thing to a story book ending as anything in Sports.

If I was a billionaire, I would have bought em!

Congrats to Chad and Doug, now you guys just need Roy Hobbs' jersey from "The Natural" to go with it!

Rhys

[Griffins]

There are no better people to safeguard history than Doug and Chad.

[danc]

It was the simple greatest baseball moment in my lifetime that I witnessed. In saying that, those prices are absolutely insane.

After all, what does that make the Mookie ball now after it was purchased for what, $80,000 like ten years ago by Seth Swirsky? How about the pine tar bat? That has to sell for at least $200,000 of Gibby's bat brings over a half a million?

DanC

[terjung]

Originally Posted by Griffins

There are no better people to safeguard history than Doug and Chad.

Well said. Doug and Chad are unquestionably top notch.

[E93]

Originally Posted by Griffins

There are no better people to safeguard history than Doug and Chad.

+1

Great people. Phenomenal collection. Extremely generous with the way they share it.

JimB

[tbob]

Originally Posted by cardinalcollector

"I don't believe what I just read" !

LOL. +1. Nice take-off on Jack Buck's famous line.
I agree with one of the posters, how much does that make Maz' bat worth? In my mind there is no comparison and I would think Maz' HR series winning bat and the ball would be astronomical now.
Edited to add- what does that make the "and we'll see you tomorrow night" Kirby Puckett bat worth?????? It's at least as significant, if not more than Gibson's bat.