What's your most treasured piece of sports memorabilia? Father's day edition
Mine is a baseball signed by every member of the 1968 Detroit Tigers. My late father was a dentist who happened to have Jim Price as a patient. My dad got Jim to get every player and coach's autograph on the ball sometime near the end of the season and gave it to me on my ninth birthday. The names are a bit faded (after all it's 42 years old) but you can still clearly make them out although Earl Wilson's and Joe Sparma's are a bit faded.
I've had several offers to sell it but no way in hell I am ever parting with that ball. I was thinking about my dad today (he passed two years ago) and what a very cool gift that was.
What's yours?
PS: I also have a program from a game he took me to the next year agains the Red Sox. It was a doubleheader and I kept score during the game. The coolest thing about it is the full page ad for 1969 GTO Judge on the back cover!
Real helmet I won last year at the Women's Football Academy for having raised the third highest amount of money. Funny thing was, the first and second place winners chose other prizes like jewelry and a gift certificate. I had wanted the helmet the whole time and thought in third place, I didn't stand a chance. It has a little red paint on it and I'm hoping it's from a tSIO helmet.
Picture of me with Denard a close second.
Edit: Just realized this is a Father's Day version. Oops.
Signed picture of Oscar Robertson.
Everyone will care about this.
i've got a hat signed by the entire 2001 michigan basketball team. My cousin got it signed while he was in the hospital and when he passed away i got it.
I have a first edition of Fielding H. Yost's book on football. It's full of play diagrams, pretty cool.
I also have a football autographed by Rob Lytle, One of my all time favorite players.
Don't judge me for judging you.
My Dad was born in Flint. He and his mother moved to Tennessee when he was 12. His dad lived in Detroit for a while though. My dad has a hat he bought from old Tiger Stadium (I dont know what it was called), the last day he lived in Michigan with his dad. Its not signed by anyone but my dad will treat it like it is to this day.
Isiah Thomas signed jersey
Lebron James signed big time ticket
1969 Baltimore Orioles signed baseball
Patrick Roy signed picture
Sergei Fedorov signed picture
Roger Clemens rookie card
O.J. Simpson rookie card
1. Tom Brady signed Winged helmet.
2. 95 Indians signed team ball
3. 98 woodson rose bowl jersey .. not signed but, one day ....
I have a signed authentic 1989 Glen Rice jersey that I got from a family friend. I hear the jersey itself is very rare so having a signed one makes it that much better!
My Dad ran into Bo Schembechler several years ago at the Detroit airport. He didn't have anything with him except for a piece of paper to get him to sign, but he got him to sign it to me. I remember when my Dad got home and gave it to me (I was probably about 10). Even then, I was the biggest Michigan fan and I knew all about Bo, but I couldn't believe it. I have that piece of paper framed and wouldn't give it up for anything.
Also, my uncle has a baseball with about 10-15 players' signatures from the '68 Tigers on it. He's still working on collecting more of the players' signatures when they do public signings, etc.
at Ypsi Normal Teacher's College. He was such a stern, even angry guy when we were kids but he has this crazy look of pleasure on his face in the photo, convinced me that he must have been fun at some point in his life. He volunteered for WWI and became famous for his ferocity (they called him Killer K. . .), came back utterly changed. Very determined and successful guy, but not always so fun to be around.
For a long time I also dragged around the punching bag my father bought me when I got beaten up once at school. He taught me how to hold my fists, and although I didn't become any good at it, it helped me imagine standing up for myself--showing I was willing to fight. I never got beat up again.
My father isn't much of a sports collector, but I have one of Shawn Hunwick's goalie sticks, which he signed for me before the team left for the Frozen Four. I wanted to get my hockey flag signed by the team in St. Paul, but stupid AT&T wouldn't let them sign anything besides the posters with the FF logo.
I also have a 50s-era Michigan pennant. No signatures, but my grandfather had it while he was in school and gave it to me when I was little. I've kept it with me wherever I've lived since, and it's hanging in my cubicle right now.
My father isn't much of a sports collector, but I have one of Shawn Hunwick's goalie sticks, which he signed for me before the team left for the Frozen Four. I wanted to get my hockey flag signed by the team in St. Paul, but stupid AT&T wouldn't let them sign anything besides the posters with the FF logo.
I also have a 50s-era Michigan pennant. No signatures, but my grandfather had it while he was in school and gave it to me when I was little. I've kept it with me wherever I've lived since, and it's hanging in my cubicle right now.
I have stubs from the division clincher, the pennant clincher and the series winner from "84. My going to those 3 games was remarkably lucky. Also a Bo autograph on the 1980 football bust program and a Rick Leach autographed photo (B and W) from his Soph or Jr. year.
My favorite is a mini soccer ball my son (5 yrs old) had signed by Sergio Garcia, Alvaro Quiros & Padrig Harrington at a soccer game they all played/attended before the TPC this year. it was great seeing the intereaction with the players and my son. Mine would be a series of autographs I got on a spring training tour i took witha friend when I was in 7th grade. Having most of the Reds, Red Sox, Astros, Yankees sign my autograph book & game programs were great.
a 18-20 signed photo of pete rose, joe morgan, johnny bench and tony perez that my wife got me for a wedding gift and a hat signed by rose (pete told me he better not see this on ebay).
hat from the first fab five final four. It has all the players sigs.
2) Autographed Glen Rice rookie card and signed Michigan hat from Glen when he played with the Heat against the Pacer's in 1994.
3)Autographed pictures of Tim Hardaway and David Robinson
4) Autographed Domingo Ayala Domingo Beisbol Academy shirt. 4 time rookie of the year.
I have an official UM game ball that several years later I got Desmond Howard to sign.
I also have one of the gloves Derrick Alexander wore in the 1993 Rose Bowl win over Washington.
Also, a Chris Webber autographed basketball. (It was cooler when I got it...)