OT: Your one piece of prized sports memorabilia

[DisabledVet]

Autographed Hank Aaron baseball

 

[willie99]

Maris 61
Ray Ray signed poster
Jim Calhoun Bobblehead from the 90's
The coasters I bought on this site in 2023
A poster with all the mascots going back to the sock puppet
Jonathan cutting down the net bobblehead from 2023
Dual Waterford Crystal Championship Basketballs from 2014

 

[Jaydumo20]

Maris 61
Ray Ray signed poster
Jim Calhoun Bobblehead from the 90's
The coasters I bought on this site in 2023
A poster with all the mascots going back to the sock puppet
Jonathan cutting down the net bobblehead from 2023
Dual Waterford Crystal Championship Basketballs from 2014

Do you have a picture of that poster you can post?

 

[AidanFan20]

Talk of this stuff makes me think of a sportsbar I ran across in the Palm Springs area... Two things there stood out. One was a huge picture of Candlestick Park in SF, left field stands... Looked strange, only a few dozen people there, and they were all looking around rather than at the field. Then I saw the plaque on the frame. "Candlestick Park, Oct. 17, 1989, 5:04 pm". Yup, right after the Loma Prieta earthquake.

The other was a piece of the old Fenway Park Green Monster, from when the wall was rebuilt years ago. Looks like it had been restored, or maybe it was fake, now that I think of it... They even left a glove there so that pictures could be taken as you pretend to catch a fly ball in front of it. Like I said, maybe that's fake, but the Candlestick photo is definitely NOT.

 

[Omahabound]

Great thread

 

[Viet Vet]

I have a Christmas card signed by Digger Phelps. I played on the first college team he coached (Penn Frosh 1966-1967). Even after he left Penn and Fordham to coach at Notre Dame he sent Christmas cards to all his former players, including his Penn freshman squads.

It’s been 57 years since I played for him, and I’ll always cherish his gracious gesture.

 

[willie99]

Do you have a picture of that poster you can post?

Sure, tomorrow when I'm in the office

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Autographed Hank Aaron baseball

Was going to say that also. I met him at a Steiner Sports event in Port Chester a long time ago and got a signed ball. His hand pretty much engulfed mine when we shook hands.

 

[78AlwaysHappy]

It might be a fraudulent item, but I have a signed basketball from Syracuse’s second National Championship.

 

[nomar]

It might be a fraudulent item, but I have a signed basketball from Syracuse’s second National Championship.

You have a signed basketball from the 1926 Helms Trophy winners? Wow it’s really hard to get a Whitey McWhiterson sig.

 

[ryan214]

Decided to go with a few of my more unique/odd pieces. My Jim Calhoun Holiday Buck and a chocolate lollipop from the Geno Auriemma roast.

 

[Burt]

A home run leaders bat signed by Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, a Mickey Mantle signed lithograph, a Dan Marino signed football and an 11x14 Michael Jordan action shot auto....too hard to choose one

 

[SoFla Steve]

I don't keep a lot of this kind of stuff. In fact, a few years ago I threw out a bunch of those spiral bound UConn yearbooks. I guess I regret doing that but they did take up a lot of room. I bought one every year.

I still have my Gampel opening night stuff including the free poster. Being there for Gampel game no. 1 was special.

 

[willie99]

Do you have a picture of that poster you can post?

 

[willie99]

^^^^^

Tough for me to get a good picture without reflections on a bright day

 

[Jaydumo20]

^^^^^

Tough for me to get a good picture without reflections on a bright day

Love it!

 

[Calhoun's Court]

My 1999 National Championship Locker Room hat signed by Jim Calhoun at the Travelers Pro- AM day(in 1999).
To me it is priceless.

 

[dvegas]

Only thing that comes close is ticket stub from the game, stub from BET 1996 final a distant 3rd...

 

[Jaydumo20]

Only thing that comes close is ticket stub from the game, stub from BET 1996 final a distant 3rd... View attachment 100738

That's pretty kick ass

 

[Doctor Hoop]

I've got a few that totally rock, and narrowing them to only one is impossible.

So here's two. First, bats signed by Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, and Ted Williams. Red Sox left field for 50 years.

And this one, a Charlestown Chiefs jersey signed by the Hansen's.

Bonus item: the hockey stick above is game-used and signed by Bobby Orr.

 

[Scot-e]

My dad’s 1999 championship ring.

 

[Chasm64]

Copy of the first edition of Inside Sports with Larry Bird cover story

 

[GlastonTim]

View attachment 100757My dad’s 1999 championship ring.

Awesome! Back story?

 

[Scot-e]

Awesome! Back story?

In 1999 my brother and I drove down from Atlanta to meet my dad for the FF. He since has passed on- but was an huge UConn fan and supported the school. We are like many here- crazy UConn fans. Since then I only asked for one other ring from school which was last year- I thought the first and the latest would be great mojo to wear to games. Little did I know the “ latest” would not last that long. But the 1999 ring I would grab if my house was burning down before almost anything else.

 

[bdbdbdbd]

Program from 1996 Big East Final signed by WTIC's Arnold Dean, and program from 1999 Final Four signed by Jim Calhoun's nuns (apologies, I don't recall their names without digging out the program).

 

[GruntCakes]

I have a lot of memorabilia. Mostly UConn, Red Sox, Patriots.
Love this picture that I got at a UConn pre game auction a couple years back.
Hangs in the dining room aka the Red Sox room.

 

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