Sports Collectors Digest – August 16, 2019

6 Sports Collectors Digest / August 16, 2019

Columnists

9 BertLehman:Changesarecomingto

SportsCollectorsDigestasthesearchfor

a neweditorbegins.

22 LarryCanale:TheClassof 2019

was recently inducted into the Baseball

Hall of Fame, but that hasn’t caused a

dramatic increase in the prices being paid

for collectibles pertaining to the new Hall

of Famers.

Departments

9 Leading Off

12 Feedback

13 News Briefs

24 Joyner Toon

39 New Releases

40 Show Calendar

20 Building a HOF career

Gil Brandt refl ects on his NFL career and being elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame

29 More than $10 million expected

More than 600 elite lots comprise Heritage Auctions’ current sale

30 Clearing a path to the HOF

Kevin Mawae looks back at his NFL career and what it took to get to the Football HOF

32 Baseball autographs aplenty

Current Clean Sweep auction includes a plethora of affordable baseball autographs

33 The quest to complete a set

Collector Scott McKenzie shares his journey in completing the 2004 Fleer GOTG set

36 Potato chips & baseball pins

In the 1960s Guy’s Potato Chips provided a crunchy snack and baseball collectible pins

38 An array of auction lots

The key phrase for Memory Lane’s Summer Rarities Auction is “variety”

45 Through the Mail

Bryan Petrulis shares his successes of obtaining baseball autographs Through the Mail

Contents

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