by MEARS | Oct 11, 2007 | archived news
This week’s piece is really a way to tie in the a few previous columns dealing with the 1957 Willie Mays jersey, a Hank Greenberg jersey from the Richard Wolfer’s auction, and the use of locker room photographs. This article brings all of these things apparently...
by MEARS | Oct 11, 2007 | archived news
Don’t worry, I am not “short changing you with this one as my regular article will run tomorrow… Just thought I would share this. I have often given reviews or shared insights with things I have come across in buying reference material. The long term project I am...
by MEARS | Oct 8, 2007 | archived news
50 years ago, in 1957, a wonderful thing happened to the city of Milwaukee as their “new” Major League Baseball Team, The Milwaukee Braves, arriving in the city just 4 years prior in 1953 from Boston, won their first Major League Championship by beating...
by MEARS | Oct 3, 2007 | archived news
It used to really bother my wife and kids when they would see me getting excited about finding locker room shots. I had to do some serious explaining when they heard me exclaim once, “ this is great…Mantle has his pants off!” I have often written about the value of...
by MEARS | Oct 1, 2007 | archived news
2 JERSEYS, 1 TEAM, LEGITIMATE INCONSISTENCY One looks for an unswerving standard when analyzing a jersey. NOB fonts should be identical, numbers the same, and patches with no differences. And, 95+% of the time, they’d be right. Still, there are occasional...
