by MEARS | Jun 21, 2007 | archived news
MORE THINGS TO LOOK FOR: LTC MEARS Auth, LLC’s excellent article on finding flaws on Hall of Fame flannels has inspired me to shelve what I had planned to write about for one installment and to instead follow his lead and detail some other warning signs on HOF...
by MEARS | Jun 15, 2007 | archived news
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite movies deals with baseball. No surprise there. The surprising thing is that it involves George C. Scott in the movie Patton. Patton is referencing America’s desire to win and be first at everything and that we do and...
by MEARS | Jun 14, 2007 | archived news
One constant that the internet onslaught has failed to replace is the age old industry trade/card/autograph show. The interaction of dealers, buyers, and sports figures coming together at a quality show simply cannot be replicated by virtual reality. And that is how...
by MEARS | Jun 11, 2007 | archived news
IF IT ISN’T ONE THING, IT’S ANOTHER Hitting the books and the Internet can always be a hoot when researching a jersey, but sometimes the enhancement of such research can come at the most unlikely time and in the most unlikely place. Back in the mid-1990s,...
by MEARS | Jun 8, 2007 | archived news
I have always been a “hands-on collector”. By this I mean the items that I have in my collection are very accessible to me and to those that wish to see them. I have never had a single item enclosed in glass or framed. Much of this has been necessitated by the fact,...
