Sweet Spot !!!!!%!# Rose Confession Fails to Sell !"#"$%"&'()*(+,-./-&0'()*1''2'3456'()7''.46''1 !!!!!%!#!Ruth Bat: $253,000
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THE NATION’S BEST PUBLICATION ABOUT AUTOGRAPHED SPORTS MEMORABILIA INSIDE !"!#!Made in China jerseys taken !!!!!$!#!Dream championship game Sweet Spot !!!!!%!# Rose confession fails to sell !"#"$%"&'()*(+,-./-&0'()*1''2'3456'()7''.46''1 !!!!!%!#!Ruth bat: $253,000 SUBSCRIBE / ADVERTISE / CHARGE IT 1-512-708-1999 !&!#!Texas HOF guests 12 !""Big shows for the new year www.sweetspotnews.com ON THE BALL Mastro plans guilty plea Bill Mastro is expected to ac- knowledge at a newly scheduled THE ART WITH hearing in February that he altered the world’s most valuable trading card, a Honus Wagner T206 that has fetched millions of dollars in a !"#$"!% &'% ($)(*+#&,-"% .#/0!/1.$&0!2% COLLECTING including a 1991 sale for $451,000 to NHL legend Wayne Gretzky and former Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall. Its latest sale was to Arizona Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick, who paid a record $2.8 AUTOGRAPHS million for the card. Many sports art He, too, found As reported Nov. 30 by Michael ists, blessed with a market with O’Keefe of the New York Daily technical gifts, be editions of seri News, Mastro’s case will be as- gan as commercial graphs, prints and signed to a new judge, federal artists or illustra any product that Judge Suzanne B. Conlon. Mas- would hold an im tro, who was indicted on a count tors. Norman Rock of fraud in July — and accused well painted slices age. of trimming the world’s most ex- of American life Countless art pensive baseball card — has al- for The Saturday ists have found ready signed a plea agreement Evening Post, Boys American life that changes the not-guilty plea he Life, Popular Sci and, more spe entered in July to guilty, according ence and other pub !"#!$%%&'()*+,-)($( .&% +/+"#!% ,-"3% $0% 4($1/)&% '"3"#/-% lications. His tight, popular subject court by the United States Attor- realistic paintings with a keenly in 0"56!% &',1"% '&#% 0&#.("#0% 7--$0&$!8% also found audienc terested audience. No reason was given for the judge Dick Perez popu change, The Daily News reported. es in the form of Prosecutors Nancy DePodesta posters, calendars, larized his images and Steven Grimes had asked the postcards and even Ron Lewis through Steele court to set a change of plea hear- puzzles. Perez Galleries and the LeafDonruss ing for early February 2013. Mas- Naturally, a slice of that life addressed Card Company. tro’s attorneys support the request, sports. An icon was created. And so was Which brings us to Ron Lewis of the papers said. Michael Monico, a market. Pocatello, Idaho, whose Currier & Mastro’s attorney, told The Daily LeRoy Neiman, born LeRoy Leslie Ivesesque style brought him into the News that Mastro intends to re- Runquist, was a fashion illustrator be sports arena with its burgeoning auto solve the case without a trial and is fore doing work for Playboy magazine. graph industry. Autograph fans needed cooperating with the government. collectibles to sign, and when Stephen A federal Grand Jury handed In 1960, with televised sports captur down a 16-count indictment in July ing a global audience, Neiman found a Hisler organized autograph shows that that Mastro and former associates, vehicle for his fast, loose painting style saluted milestone clubs, Ron Lewis, Doug Allen and Mark Theotikos — the Olympics, Super Bowls, World doing his time in New York, actually a “routinely defrauded customers, Series, golf tournaments, Wimbledon. dozen years, found his way into cliques #$))"3%/91.$&0!%/03%$0:/."3%+#$1"!% His easel and signature moustache and of American sports heroes. paid by unwitting bidders,” The white suit became part of major Ameri “Sports is something I moved into,” Daily News reported. ! can sports events. See RON LEWIS on Page 7 ! Sweet Spot 3 in NCAA Division I football history. A Italy sports museum sweater given to all football letterman upon TURIN, Italy — From the town that RaNdOm graduation, not the entire student body is gave us the mysterious shroud of Jesus being auctioned off in the Dec. 12 auction !"#$%&'()*+,%&-.%(&/0%$0#&"1&23".(%4& ThOuGhTs by Grey Flannel Auctions. The sweater is 5"6789&9*":$%&"8!$&0%$;&<+&/0=)##);& made of heavy, crimson wool long sleeve Ali are among 300,000 items on display turtle neck sweater with “1902” on front in in the 800 square meters of space in Ruppert, O’Day lead vets large felt numbers. The felt has turned to a >0.78,%&?*+#37!&2();70#4&/"%(&"1&(=$& Umpire Hank O’Day, Yankees owner shade of pink, presumably being white origi items in the exhibit come from the private Jacob Ruppert and 19th Century catcher nally with the red from the sweater bleeding !"**$!(7"8&"1&?8".)("&@.7%74&'8&);;7(7"8& third baseman Deacon White were elected during washing. There are several holes to Ali’s gloves and another set worn by to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by throughout the sweater, some of which have Roberto Cammarelle, an Olympic gold the PreIntegration committee. They will be been repaired with a different colored thread. medalist in the Beijing games of 2008, joined by the Class of 2013, which will be ;96,$%%(4$81"#!61-'(+,"8"1$%(!+12"-"+1< the museum also features: voted by the Basebal Writers’ Aossication . A&>=$&:$%(&B".8&<+&C7:7"&5$..0(7D&9"*;& of America on Jan. 9. The 16member Pre medalist in the 200 meters in the 1960 Integration Era Committee was composed Larsen-signed ‘56 program Rome Olympics; of HOF members Bert Blyleven, Pat Gillick, A 1956 World Series program and ticket A&@&=$*#$(&"8!$&B".8&<+&(=$&*)($&E".- Phil Niekro and Don Sutton, major league stubs signed by Don Larsen is on the block mula1 legend, Ayrton Senna; executives, media members and historians. at Heritage Auctions. The sale closes Dec. A&@&(.)!F&%07(&B".8&<+&/"("GH&.7;$.& . 30. The sale also includes an autograph page /).!"&27#"8!$**7&<$1".$&=7%&;$)(=&*)%(& Have crazier things happened? with Chuck Dressen and Roberto Clemente. year in a crash; and The 1990s were one crazy time for sports A lot of 20 gameused bats, some signed, A&?8$&"1&I7$9"&/).);"8),%&J)3"*7& memorabilia. A woman paid more than from such players as Manny Mota, Garry %=7.(%4 $8,000 for Ty Cobb’s false teeth. 3/6=#6%2'(>"?6(@$,8,+96'(A$!?(B%$,?($12( All told, the exhibit includes memo- Tennis legend and heartthrob Andre Agas Howard Johnson are for sale. A wide range rabilia from 200 athletes, including 50 sai revealed years after he retired that that of singlesigned baseballs is also available. ?*+#7!&#$;)*7%(%4 mullet made of luscious blond hair actually . A was a wig. He even claimed that he’d lost Game 3, 1927 WS program /")(#,)-(0,$12(3%$4(56!$7)6(/6(-/+78/-( A 1927 New York Yankees World Series Collectors, pay your taxes the rag would fall off. A sports bar in New >=78F789&)<"0(&K0%(&8"(&3)+789&+"0.& Game 3 program, in which Babe Ruth hit a York, nonetheless paid thousands for the home run is on the block through Huggins ta6$%L&M$**D&(=78F&)9)784&N=.7%("3=$.& hairpiece.. O".F&"1&M)*B".(=&N"08(+D&M7%!4D&=);& & Scott Auctions. The sale closes Dec. 13. And who will ever forget that days after The sale also includes a 1896 dinner invita "B$;&PQRSDSSS&78&<)!F&()6$%&)8;&(=$& -+))"18(/")()6961-/($12(#1$%(1+:/"--6,(+1( IRS resorted to selling off 130 memo- tion signed by George Wright; and a ticket May 1, 1991, someone paid $25,000 for for Yankee Stadium on April 17, 1951, when .)<7*7)&7($#%&"8&J":4&T&("&=$*3&%$((*$& the jock strap that the strike out king wore (=$&;$<(4&'8!*0;$;&78&(=$&)0!(7"8&B$.$& Mickey Mantle, the “Commerce Comet,” during that game. made his major league debut. He went 1for )0("9.)3=$;&H)!F$.%&K$.%$+%&("&#";$*%& One more. Luis Gonzalez hit a homer run "1&C)#<$)0&E7$*;D&)&97)8(&<"<<*$&=$);& 4 in a 50 win over the Boston Red Sox. and scored the winning run that helped win . ;"**&"1&U78!$&C"#<).;7&)8;&"117!7)*& the 2001 World Series over the New York 1""(<)*%&1."#&203$.&5"B*%&QT&)8;&QR4 Yankees. Gonzo became part of Arizona lore Ozzie’s Gold Gloves:$519K Crystal Ferguson, a supervisor ap- and promoted one collector to pay $10,000 The Wizard, Ozzie Smith, sold his com praiser, told television reporters, “When for two pieces of Gonzo’s gum. the Arizona plete set of Gold Glove Awards for $519,203 in a SCP Auction that closed Dec. 2. He won a taxpayer does not pay their taxes, the Diamondbacks. -/6(*,6)-"8"+7)(C$D%"18)(#6%2"18($D$,2( .$:$80$&"1-!$.&)8;V".&()6&!"**$!(".&B7**& . 9"&"0(&)8;&%$7W$&(=$7.&)%%$(%4&M=$8&(=$+& from 1980 to 1992. Talk about domination %$7W$&(=$#D&B$&!"#$&78&)8;&%$**&(=$#4 Historic Harvard sweater at his position. Only one shortstop besides Ozzie won the award four years in a row. Taxpayers have a lot of rights that he Harvard’s football program is one of the Nope, not Barry Larkin, who won three in a can exercise and there are several op- oldest in the world, having begun compet ing in the sport in 1873. The Crimson has a row. Yep, it was Dave Concepcion, who won (7"8%&1".&!"**$!(7"84&>=7%&7%&.$)**+&(=$& the award four consecutive years. A second legacy that includes 8 national champion *)%(&.$%".(&X&%$7W0.$DY&E$.90%"8&%)7;4 replica set of these awards, also produced by .