Fridays at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Category: Sports
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The table was covered with trays of beautifully illustrated color souvenir programs for Philadelphia Eagles games from the 1940s and 1950s. The fronts had white players in traditional gridiron poses along with mascot matchups. The back…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
I didn’t see the young woman when she left the starting block, but I couldn’t miss her elegant glide as she slid the round granite curling stone down the white sheet of ice. She resembled a…
Reader asks about Ring & other boxing magazines
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Reader questions, and Sports
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The wrongheaded sale of Jesse Owens’ Olympic medal
Posted in Black history, history, and Sports
It seems blasphemous that one of the 1936 Olympic Gold medals won by Jesse Owens was sold at auction over the weekend. It’s even more distressing that the man himself was never able to capitalize…
Jackie Robinson’s “42” & the fear of change
Posted in Black history, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, history, Movies, and Sports
Some years ago, I picked up a lobby card for the 1950 movie “The Jackie Robinson Story” at auction. The card showed a smiling Robinson, Ruby Dee as his wife Rachel, along with other actors playing Branch…
I’m not much of a boxing fan. I find the sport too messy and too barbaric. But a friend who is the owner of the famed Blue Horizon boxing venue in Philadelphia keeps trying to…
As I stood there staring at the two photographs on the top of the glass case, I felt a bit disappointed. I had seen them listed as Negro League photographs on the auction-house website, and…