Category: Collectibles/Memorabilia

Auction Action

By Paul Lukas, on July 9th, 2019%

As you may have noticed in the left sidebar, our friends at Grey Flannel Auctions are running another catalog auction. Here are some of the items that have caught my eye:

• I always like leagues that deviate from the standard black/white zebra-striped officiating uniforms. The World Football League’s blue/gold jerseys (shown at right, . . . → Read More: Auction Action

A Very Unusual Ticket Collection

By Paul Lukas, on June 18th, 2019%

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Meet Eric Schwartzman, a tax accountant who lives in Queens. Like a lot of people, he collects ticket stubs. But they’re not all from games he attended. Schwartzman, who recently got in touch with me when I said I was looking for people with . . . → Read More: A Very Unusual Ticket Collection

Vintage Memorabilia Find: 1995 NFL Draft Trading Cards

By Paul Lukas, on April 25th, 2019%

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[Editor’s Note: With the NFL Draft commencing tonight, we have a draft-centric guest entry today from longtime reader/contributor Jay Braiman. Enjoy. — PL]

By Jay Braiman

Back in the mid-1990s, I used to produce radio broadcasts of the NFL Draft at the Madison Square Garden Theatre . . . → Read More: Vintage Memorabilia Find: 1995 NFL Draft Trading Cards

What Do We Think of Jersey Trading Cards?

By Paul Lukas, on February 25th, 2019%

I’ve been writing about uniforms for nearly 20 years now, and there’s a fairly big elephant in the room that I’ve never written about or probably even mentioned: jersey trading cards, which are the cards that come with a little swatch of a game-used jersey, like the Alfonso Soriano card shown above.

I don’t . . . → Read More: What Do We Think of Jersey Trading Cards?