by MEARS | Dec 25, 2007 | archived news
Rare uniforms, bats, balls, and documents belonging to the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings hit the auction block…Now that I have your attention, I must confess that I’m about ninety years late in reporting this. We tend to think of sports memorabilia auctions as recent...
by MEARS | Dec 20, 2007 | archived news
Last year I wrote an article about investing in sports memorabilia. I was asked recently about collecting and investing in vintage New York Yankees game used jerseys and bats from the 1930s through the 1960s. The focus was for any advice or how to go about educating...
by MEARS | Dec 20, 2007 | archived news
I can still remember when Marc Okkonen’s “Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century” first came out. We had just moved from Ft. Campbell, KY to a year stint at Ft. Huachuca AZ. My son Jacob was in his first year of Tee-Ball and we were beginning to truly share that...
by MEARS | Dec 19, 2007 | archived news
For the past couple of years I have run an editorial that I like to think of as the “Naughty and Nice list.” This is an editorial piece so the thoughts expressed here are mine and mine alone. In order to end on a positive note, let’s get the naughty folks out of the...
by MEARS | Dec 17, 2007 | archived news
Henry “Hinkey” Haines, what a great baseball name! With two recent signature model H&B bats submitted to the MEARS office, a once forgotten player now gets reintroduced to the collecting public. With the submission, MEARS had the chance to examine a pair of bats...
by MEARS | Dec 16, 2007 | archived news
Not the usual title for an article and one that if you not already familiar with would seen like a trick question but this is precisely one of the views expressed on a memorabilia chat room with regards to a pennant sold on EBay last week. The item in question is a...
