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Posted By: Alan Elefson
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Posted By: Alan
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
There are a lot of reasons behind the scarcity of vintage basketball memorabilia...first being that not nearly as many people played basketball compared to baseball in prewar times...less uniforms per team means less surviving to today, only one basketball was needed for an entire season...basketballs were relatively expensive and less likely to be owned by kids and if they did when the bladder tore or wore out the ball was probably just thrown away. Baseballs, bats and gloves are more durable and thus more likely to be kept. |
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Posted By: Jimmy Piccuito
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
I'm not going to out any ebay auctions, but anyone interested in vintage basketball equipment needs to do a really good ebay search right now. |
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Posted By: Aaron M.
Quality vintage (pre-1970) basketball memorabilia is virtually non-existent. Not that the items are particularly expensive, but there just wasn't really anything produced that was particularly attractive or unique. (I hate bobble-heads. ) |
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Posted By: Vincent
I've got a brother who's assembled a collection of bowling autographs that I'd consider world-class. As good, if not better, than that held by the Bowling Hall of Fame in St. Louis. Go ahead and snicker. But talk about having a tough time finding those vintage autographs. We went to the National Show in Cleveland and as usual, there were no vintage Bowling autographs to be found. Afew post-1960, but nothing else. I just tell him to keep looking, and keep selling occassionally on eBay. The eBay listings have led two significant collections to him, by individuals looking to liquidate estates. They are few are far between. But they have appeared, from time to time. |
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Posted By: Alan
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Posted By: Alan
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Posted By: Clint
My brother is a professional bowler. I picked this old inkwell up because it reminded me of Cap Anson. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Clint, now I know why your last name always sounded so familiar to me. I used to work in a bowling center when I was in college. At the time my brother who also worked there was roommates with Jeremy Sonnenfeld who bowled the first sanctioned 900. |
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Posted By: Clint
Dan, small world. It usually takes me 5 games to reach 900. We spent many hours as kids in the bowling alley. My brother would practice while I worked in the baseball card shop in the basement of the bowling alley. My brother actually threw out some of my cards when we were little. I had a perfect 53 Topps Berra that I worked several weeks to buy that ended up in this group that got thrown away. It still kills me to think about it. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
Did your brother throw them out on purpose? My brother who was mad at me for some long forgotten reason tore my 1965 Topps Ernie Banks card in half and then scooted the torn pieces from underneath his bedroom door. That was a bad day for my little brother. |
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Posted By: Clint
Yes, but it was probably my fault. I kept them in a big box which sometimes would end up in the middle of our room. He got tired of tripping over it and threw it away. I lost all of my Star Wars cards as well. I just bought all five sets a couple of weeks ago. |
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Posted By: Keith
Since we got on the topic of bowling, I figured I would share my bowling stuff. I have a rather large collection of Fred A Kail football statues, and while building the collection and becoming and a big fan of his work, I added 4 Kail bowling statues. I like the comical nature of Kail's sculpture work. Does anyone know of other Kail items other than his Football, bowling, and very rare baseball stuff? My bowling stuff consists of 2 ashtrays, 1 bank, and 1 coffee mug. |
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