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By: Kirk Gibson’s memorabilia auction is going pretty well – Everything Vintage, Everything Retro, Everything Memorabilia

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:40:00 +0000

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By: Kirk Gibson’s memorabilia auction is going pretty well | HardballTalk

Kirk Gibson’s memorabilia auction is going pretty well | HardballTalk — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:46:52 +0000

[...] ran a story in October explaining why current Diamondbacks manager and former Dodgers legend Kirk Gibson is selling [...]

By: The Rabbit

The Rabbit — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:25:25 +0000

I believed exactly as you did when I was your age.
Now that I’m old enough to be your mother and have had many more experiences and “adventures”, I’m sorry I didn’t keep a few more things. It’s amazing how much stuff you forget as time passes and the smallest thing can remind you of an incredible time.
Note: I am referring to personal events/”milestones” and not buying some collectable.

By: wihalofan

wihalofan — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:26:28 +0000

Sorry Craig, I disagree, or at least I feel differently. I have a foul ball from the last game I attended with my dad. This was more than 15 years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Yet when I hold that ball the memories are, for lack of a better word, “intensified”. There’s no way that ball would ever be sold.

By: nfieldr

nfieldr — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:24:33 +0000

The A’s have always been my AL team and I had season tickets when I lived in the Bay Area (including ’88 and ’89). I wish I had the money to buy the bat so that I could burn it. I still can’t watch Gibby limp around the bases even now 22 years later.

By: bxcheer

bxcheer — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:16:17 +0000

Craig, I’m with you. The entire autograph thing puzzles me.
The first Yankee game that my Dad ever took me to was in August of 1972, a scheduled double header no less, (with 8 kids Dad was all about bang for the buck). In the first game Lou Pinella who was still with the Royals, hit a three run homer off Sparky Lyle. I was standing there with my glove waiting for it to come down when at the last moment my big brother reached over a snatched it away.

My brother tried to get Lyle to sign the ball but his response at the time isn’t printable. He still had the ball in 74 when Pinella became a Yankee but was never able to get him to sign it. I’ve told the story about that incident a hundred times but if I couldn’t remember it for some reason having a ball with Pinell’s or Lyle’s autograph certainly wouldn’t help.

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:46:18 +0000

I’d at least keep the bat.