COLLEGE NOTES (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
COLLEGE NOTES (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
Eighty years’ worth of history and memorabilia from the old Southwest Conference is sitting in a closet at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco. But maybe not for long.
Unitas memorabilia pieces fetch more $84K at auction (Sports Illustrated)
A helmet worn by Johnny Unitas in the 1960s sold for $54,050, and the quarterback’s first contract with the Baltimore Colts drew a bid of $29,900 at an auction of sports memorabilia Friday night.
What’s the deal with… the Gelman memorabilia museum? (The GW Hatchet)
Tons of students rush in and out of Gelman Library’s doors each day but most fail to notice the little room stashed off by the left-hand side of the foyer. The small, inconspicuous place, called the David S. Brown Memorabilia Room, is filled with artifacts from authentic documents to photographs to significant objects, quietly chronicling GW’s history.
1909 Honus Wagner baseball card sells for record $2.35 million (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
LOS ANGELES The “Holy Grail of baseball cards,” the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2,350,000, the seller of the card said Monday. The anonymous buyer has only been identified as a Southern California collector. SCP Auctions Inc., a company that holds sports memorabilia auctions, said it bought a small share of the …
Sports Hall to devote wing to old Southwest Conference (NewsChannel 10 Amarillo)
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Honus Wagner card sells for record $2.3M (Fox Sports)
The “Holy Grail of baseball cards,” the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2.35 million, the seller of the card said Monday. The buyer has only been identified as a Southern California collector. SCP Auctions Inc., a company that holds sports memorabilia auctions, said it bought a small share of the card. It is scheduled …
Judge to oversee lawsuits linked to ‘body snatching’ (The Record)
More than 100 lawsuits spawned by a “body-snatching” operation allegedly run by a former dentist from Fort Lee are now being funneled through a federal judge in Newark.
Texas Hall planning to SWC wing (Dallas Morning News)
WACO Eighty years’ worth of history and memorabilia from the old Southwest Conference is sitting in a closet at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. But perhaps not for long.