Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/16/2020
Ready to augment any baseball library, this large collection of diamond publications includes guides, magazines and books totaling approx 115 and ranging from the 1940s to 1980s. The guides include 9 editions of Who’s Who in Baseball, with examples from 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1960, 1962 and 1971, followed by 9 Baseball Digest issues from the 1940s-1960s, Spink baseball guides for 1977, 1978 and 1980, Spink “Dope Books” for 1948 (DiMaggio cover) and 1952, and Major League Baseball guides from 1948 and 1950 (Ted Williams cover). There are also desirable Louisville Slugger Yearbooks with their original mailing envelopes from 1956 (low grade) and 1961 (high grade). The magazines total approx 69 and feature baseball covers with titles such as Sports Illustrated, Sport, Dell Baseball Annual, S&S Baseball Yearbook and others, with all the stars of the day featured including Mantle, Williams, Koufax, Feller, Maris, Mays and others (19 of the magazines feature other sport covers). Highlights include Sport magazine featuring Hank Aaron and his 715th home run, a Babe Ruth “as I knew him” publication from 1948 and a copy of the Life Magazine from Aug 18, 1961, featuring the Yankees’ M&M boys. Rounding out the lot, we have 18 baseball books (both hard and soft cover), with players featured to include Ruth, Musial, Ryan, Berra, Aaron and others. The majority of the guides and books remain in good condition, with handling/storage wear commensurate with their former use, with most of the magazines presenting well but having lower technical grades, with many in low grade with torn covers, creases and damaged spines.
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