Visions in Leisure and Business Volume 21 Number 1 Article 5 2003 Collecting Celebrity: The Meanings and Process of Collecting Sports Memorabilia Nancy E. Spencer Bowling Green State University Jacquelyn Cuneen Bowling Green State University Raymond Schneider Bowling Green State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/visions Recommended Citation Spencer, Nancy E.; Cuneen, Jacquelyn; and Schneider, Raymond (2003) "Collecting Celebrity: The Meanings and Process of Collecting Sports Memorabilia," Visions in Leisure and Business: Vol. 21 : No. 1 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/visions/vol21/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Visions in Leisure and Business by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@BGSU. COLLECTING CELEBRITY: THE MEANINGS AND PROCESS OF COLLECTING SPORTS MEMORABILIA BY DR. NANCY E. SPENCER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DR.JACQUELYN CUNEEN, PROFESSOR AND DR. RAYMOND SCHNEIDER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SPORT MANAGEMENT, RECREATION, AND TOURISM DIVISION SCHOOL OF HUMAN MOVEMENT, SPORT, AND LEISURE STUDIES BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY BOWLING GREEN, OHIO 43403 ABSTRACT model known as the Sports Collectibles Commodity Continuum. This model draws The sports memorabilia marketplace has ex upon concepts from previous literature: perienced exponential growth since the ad "singularization" (items may be set aside for vent of Internet auction sites such as eBay. special purposes) and "commoditization" While collectors were once constrained by (intersection of time, culture, and society) local encounters with personal collectors, (e.g., see 4, 12, 20, 33). The model also in the Internet now facilitates buying and sell troduces previously unarticulated notions of ing on an international scale.