What's your most treasured piece of sports memorabilia? Father's day edition

Mine is a Steve Yzerman autographed game worn jersey.  I'm a big Wings fan so it means a lot to me.

Got my pops an autographed Jack Lambert helmet last year and this year a giant autographed photo of Woodley laying out Rivers.

A fair bit of Gordie Howe stuff, including a painting signed by him. I also have a jersey I wore in Mites signed by basically everyone on the 1997 Blackhawks.

Mine is a game used Terrelle Pryor Jersey ... bought it at a tattoo shop in Columbus .... Okay to be serious ... mine is a ball autographed by the 1986 Tiger Team. When I was 8 I hit by a car and was in a coma. It was a 50/50 chance of survival. I was a Tigers fan at that young age, and my dad worked with a guy who was friends with one of the players. He was able to get Sparky Anderson up to Childrens hospital, and he brought the ball to me. I would never sell it, as it means so much to me.

My first Michigan game was with my dad. It was a basketball game in Hawaii vs North Carolina. Rose hit a shot at the buzzer to win the game..afterwards I was able to get all the members of the fab 5s autographs on my hat.

and Rose Bowl programs from every Michigan RB since 1979. The '89 stub (when we came form behind to beat USC) mounted in a lucite block. Should do the same to the '98 stub. 

My dad has a $100 check, made out to cash, signed by Ty Cobb. It's framed with a couple of pictures of Ty Cobb. I don't know why he signed a check, but I think it's really really cool. My dad has it hanging in his basement.

I have a Bo Schembechler autographed panoramic of Michigan Stadium. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I also have a program and ticket stubs from the national championship in 97. I'd have to go with the panoramic though as my number 1.

Picture of me on the ice with Wayne Gretzky when I'm 9 years old. He told me to mail him the picture and he would sign it and mail it back. Obviously my parents were skeptical. But within a month I got it in the mail framed with a hand written note. He's the man.

Ray Nitschke signed pic, and maybe best of all, Signed Painting of Mike Eruzione's winning goal vs. the Soviets in 1980. 

OT: http://michigan.scout.com/2/1080803.html saw this article about recruits and their fathers and ondre says some pretty intresting stuff about wanting to go visit michigan badly and that a decision is lurking

 The process might end a little sooner than I expected. I can't wait to get up to Michigan to visit.

my most prized sports possession is a signed terry bradshaw football i received from my late uncle

I don't really own anything I would consider "treasured", but I do still have a six-pack of 1997 U-M NC Pepsi in my closet.

I got an autographed picture of Lawrence Taylor from my dad as well as a Derek Jeter rookie card.  My dad's from Holland, Michigan and I was born in raised in NJ, so I'm a Michigan fan for football and basketball but a NJ/NY fan for all pro teams.

Another more sentimental piece is my Dad's old transistor radio that he used to listen to Tigers games on.  A couple years ago he was going to get rid of the old thing but I grabbed it from his hands before he could throw it away.

1 - BO autograph

2 - Mickey Mantle autograph

3- Wayne Gretzky autograph

4 - every other michigan autograph that i have ever gotten...

My brother got Lloyd Carr to autograph a panoramic of Michigan Stadium when I graduated from here. It was personalized to my name and says " A Great Michigan Man. Go Blue!"

I have a Travis Fryman autographed baseball and a picture of me when I was 9 with him getting it signed. He's not the greatest athlete ever, but he was by far my favorite baseball player ever and it was a big deal to me. The day he was traded was an awful day, fucking Randy Smith...

1) An '05 Pistons-Spurs Finals hat signed by Chauncey Billups

2) A Michigan hat signed by Charles Woodson/ A wine bottle from Charles Woodson's winery   signed by him 

3) A football signed by Don Shula, Dan Marino and a bunch of other Hall of Famers

4) A basketball signed by the '06 Pistons team

1- Bo's autograph on his first book

2- Tim Biakabutuka autographed towel i guess

When I was a kid, I was at a cub scout camp, and Ted Williams, the Splendid Splinter himself, was giving a fishing demonstrated. When he needed to use a pocket knife, I was the first to get mine out. Naturally, I kept that knife as a treasured possession to this day.

I have an autographed basketball of the entire 1989 Detroit Pistons team. It even has Chuck Daly's signature on it. Gotta love the Bad Boys. My best friend gave it to me as part of my wedding present, after years of trying to talk him into selling it to me.

My Steve Yzerman autographed jersey, plus a picture with a bunch of the playes circa 1997 or so. I got Slava Kozlov, Igor Larinov, Larry Murphy and Nicklas Lidstrom's autographs on it, 3 hall of famers and a pretty solid player not too shabby.

Photos of me with Bo and Lloyd, personally signed to me by both of them, framed along with a picture of my dad and i on the field after a game during my time in the MMB. 

Signed Muhammad Ali boxing robe that he wore himself. Framed with 2 pictures. Also have 2 boxing gloves signed by him.

I have some autographed Red Wings things but the way some things are I have no idea if they are authentic or not.  Although it's not really memorabilia, I would have to say the picture I took of Denard in the UConn game last year is up there.

I have a Mickey Mantle autographed baseball my dad got me when I was a kid.  That and the picture I have of myself and Lloyd at the team dinner before the 2005 Alamo Bowl are my favorites.

tie between Mickey Mantle autograph when I met him as a kid and "the banner"...during the '97 cup finals the wings had a 10ft or so wide banner between the upper and lower bowl that featured the logo in clouds and said hockey heaven.  As game 4 was ending with the help from those next to me I removed it and took it.  That summer I got it signed by every player and coach sub vlad.  Best part is Ward saw it and said it looked familiar and asked where I got it and said his company made it and jokingly said I guess you don't want to return it.  Only thing that sucks is takes up lots of wall space.

My dad has a ball signed by a 1950's Red Sox team, not sure of the year, and the most prominent signature is Ted Williams'.  It's been on his bureau for as long as I can remember.

i have an authentic 2010 world cup game-worn North Korea soccer jersey signed by the entire team. not kidding.

I grew up a huge Jordan fan and had the chance as a middle schooler to follow him around a golf course once on a private club near my hometown.  He signed a picture for me when he finished.  With that said, I have had a couple of opportunities to actually play golf with Gayle Sayers and have a signed score card from the first time we played.  He played in the NFL before I was born, but I have seen plenty of film on him.  Because I actually got to play with him and have a beer with him after the round, that is definitely a bigger memory for me. 

I have a few Michigan football jerseys but my favorite would most likely be a 2005 Game Issued Lamarr Woodley Alamo Bowl jersey.  He was one of my favorite players in college and has turned out to be a stud in the NFL. 

I have a wind up drag car my grandfather got me on the day I was born in 1964.  My parents never let me play with it when I was a kid so its still in mint shape even have the box it came in.  I also have a picture (taken by my wife's cousin, he's a professional photographer) of the first pitch at Comerica park signed by the pitcher.  It's cool because you can see the entire scoreboard including the clock.

Also a UM basketball signed by Steve Fisher from UM basket ball camp back in the day.



Don't have much else

Justin Verlander no hitter ball signed from his '08 no hitter vs the Brewers

Michigan winged helmet signed by Charles Woodson.

Mario Manningham and Mike Hart signed winged helmet, love it

close 2nd is a Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton mini basketball

2 things: A Kirby Puckett poster hardly anyone would have because it was never for sale. It was a promo poster made by Nike that my sister harrassed a poor store manager for until he gave it to her. And an autographed Kirby rookie card my friend gave me when he was flat broke because he knew Kirby had been my hero. Now I would have to say my chocolate lab who is named Kirby.

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. 

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.

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.

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 Mike Hart's mouth guard from the 2007 Spring Game. It's the most awesome (but kinda gross) thing I have. I also have a shirt signed by him. I also got a football signed by Tony Dungy at the Colts' preseason camp a couple years back.

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...)