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Forget the hotdogs, sports fans!Autographs, Autographs - get your free sports autographs!This book contains over 11,000 addresses for today's hottest stars in some of the most popular sports in America.Do you enjoy football, baseball, basketball, racing, hockey, tennis, figure skating , boxing, wrestling, etc.?If your answer is yes, this is the perfect book for you!Have you ever wanted an autograph from Sugar Ray Leonard, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Monica Seles, Nolan Ryan, Joe Montana, Nancy Kerrigan, Andre Agassi, Wayne Gretzky or Mary Lou Retton?Inside this amazing guide is addresses for these and many more! ... Read more

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Lots of Fun
I am really enjoying this book - it's a lot of fun to have the chance to write to my favorite sports personalities.It's nicely organized in alphabetical order and makes for an interesting guide.Nicely done!

Love This Book!
I purchased this book as a beginning collector of sports autographs.In no time, I received signed photos from Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr., Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky and Muhammad Ali.I'm still sending out a lot of requests and look forward to going to the mailbox every day!I'm really happy with the results of this book and would much rather have this guide to refer to as opposed to spending hours upon hours trying to piece this much information together myself.I think the author did a fantastic job and should be recognized for her hard work.Looking forward to future projects from this talented young lady!

A Useless Guide
I bought the Sports Address book for my 14 year old son for the Holidays, and we were both greatly disppointed! I could have authored this book! 99% of the addresses are in care of teams, or in care of organizations! Anyone can find the address of a team! It must have taken this author less than 2 days to write this book! The title is deceiving! It should be titled, Sports Autographs-Care of Teams! We are trying to find a way to return this book!It was a waste of over thirty dollars. It was an insult to the true autograph collector! The author, if she had any decency, should buy this book back from us, and give it to a member of her family, as a Holiday present!

Not worth the cost
All of the addresses are C/O a team or Association. You could spend 10 minutes online and get all of the addresses in this book. Very dissapointed!

Great Gift!
I purchased this book as a gift for a member of my family who primarily collects sports autographs.After receiving it, I looked through the pages and found that there are listings for so many favorites!We are really big racing fans and I was pleased to see so many addresses for drivers - this book will make a great gift for my cousin! ... Read more

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This comprehensive collectables guide examines hundreds of examples of golfing memorabilia and related items from rare clubs and trophies to ceramics and ephemera, and includes helpful and expert advice for the collector and an estimate of value for each item shown. ... Read more

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A highly illustrated celebration of horse racing in art, including paintings, prints and sculptures as well as racing trophies, commemorative works of art and memorabilia.
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Beautiful book
This is a beautiful book for anyone who is a racing fan. It has color photos of artwork and memorabilia surrounding racing. Would make a great gift for a horseracing person. Very informative and well written. ... Read more

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This wonderful new survey follows the evolution of the sports helmet from early military and aviation uses, through early motorcycle and auto racing, and to modern helmets used in a wide variety of sports today. The science of helmet design and manufacture is covered before moving into the art of the helmet. Helmets for six major sports are extensively covered: auto and motorcycle racing, bicycling, equestrian activities, skiing, football, and ice hockey. Some lesser known sports and their helmets are also included to give a fascinating and complete panorama of the field. The design innovations, both for safety and appearance, the colors, and the fascinating history will engage the reader, while nearly 600 color images will please even the most particular sports fan. For designers, players, scientists, and historians this book is a true delight. ... Read more

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What a great book on helmets!
This book by one of the gurus of helmetry is a great combination of Big Beautiful Pictures, interesting historical narrative and even real science of how helmets work and why. Since it came out two years ago, I have personally recommended this to many people who expressed an interest in knowing more about helmets, usually for professional reasons. I will continue to recommend it because it is far more than a nice coffee table book.

The Big Beautiful Pictures alone are worth the cost of the book, Dr. Newman has helmets in the book that you won't find anywhere but private collections.

The technical chapters such as 4. The Biomechanics of Head Trauma and 5. Standards Development give an excellent overview and even full scientific references in the Endnotes chapter.

In summary, I strongly recommend this book for anyone with a personal or professional interest in helmets: why we need them, how they work, why they are the way they are.

David Thom
ACT Lab LLC

Pretty pictures do not a good book make
This book is unfortunately a very strange hybrid between an "eye-candy" coffee-table hit parade and a serious book that actually engages you with its text and captions. The author has tried to convey some of the hard choices that helmet designers have to make while designing headgear to pass the stringent standards test, but unfortunately his tone and some of the captions he uses do not always make sense or engage the reader in a meaningful way.

Perhaps the biggest criticism that can be made to the book is that the text portions describing the standards in head protection are very much disconnected from the significant image bank collected by the authors in their compilation for the book. The book is a strange hybrid in the sense that its scientific content is neither deep enough for the dedicated scientist or engineer to find it useful, nor is it accessible enough for the layman to understand without a fairly comprehensive scientific or engineering education.

Having said that, if you are interested in helmets, or are looking for a book to inspire you in designing a new one without having to engage in heavy Google-Image searching a perfect helmet to be inspired from, then maybe this is the book for you. If you are a scientist or an engineer, however, perhaps you would be better off starting out at the regulatory agencies' sites and going through their material instead of relying on this workpiece to complete your research. ... Read more

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BUSTED! relates the whole untold story of O.J.'s recent debacle in Las Vegas from the one person who knows what really happened, collectibles dealer, Tom Riccio. On September 16, 2007, O.J. Simpson was arrested and held without bail on charges related to the armed robbery of sports memorabilia in Las Vegas' Palace Station Hotel and Casino. However, this most recent incident is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of celebrity memorabilia scandals and Riccio knows them all. Exposing, for the first time, a life outsiders know little about, BUSTED! is a shocking inside look at the often-shady world of sports memorabilia, collectibles, and celebrity auctions, a familiar arena for Riccio. ... Read more

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One of the Greatest!
Looks like this book is going to be made into a Movie!
(See Coverage Below)
I'm really looking forward to this adaptation. If the film is half as good as this book, - It will be a Huge Blockbuster!








TITLE: BUSTED!







LOCALE: New Jersey, California, Las Vegas
AUTHOR(s):Thomas J. RiccioSETTING: Urban
WRITER A CLIENT?:NoPERIOD: 1960s-Present
STUDIO: N/AFORM:BOOK, 212
PRODUCER:N/ABUDGET: Medium





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GENRE PRIMARY: Memoir
SECONDARY: Drama

CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS:
THOMAS RICCIO (M/Teens-40s) Easygoing, business minded ex-con who falls into the collectibles business during the height of the 90's baseball card craze; has an uncanny ability to make good deals and find great luck, only to continually lose everything. (LD)

ALBERT BEARDSLEY (M/40s) Loose cannon and obsessive fan of OJ Simpson; borderline psychotic and dangerous; completely unbalanced though he tries to present himself as a legitimate promoter and memorabilia dealer. (FE)

OJ SIMPSON (M/60s) Football star best known for his hard-partying, and his acquittal for the brutal double-murder of wife and her lover; short tempered and paranoid. (FE)

IRENE RICCIO (F/40s) Long-suffering, patient wife of Tom; met him when she was only 18 and struggles to tolerate his rollercoaster of unemployment, gambling highs and lows, and incarceration. (FE)

JEFF WOOLF (M/30s) Tom's business partner; teaches him the ropes of running a successful auction house and is impressed with Tom's talent for finding long shot, high profile moneymakers. (FE)

CHARLES EHRLICH (M/50s) Unpredictable, foul-mouthed crony in OJ's posse; agrees to pose as a dealer to set up Beardsley in Vegas, allowing OJ to retrieve his property. (CO)


LOGLINE: A collectibles dealer with a knack for amazing runs of both good and bad luck looks back on the events leading up to his involvement in the Las Vegas robbery incident that landed OJ Simpson in prison.

SYNOPSIS:THOMAS RICCIO (40s) has led a life of ups and downs. As a teenager, he quickly learned he could make more working a scam than with an honest job. He worked the tables in Atlantic City before graduating high school, but throughout his youth, one thing remained a constant: his love of all things baseball. During the 1980's collectible craze, Riccio buys cards at garage sales and turns huge profits selling them at trade shows. After a vendor cheats him on a deal, Riccio steals a suitcase full of rare coins from him, which he learns have a value of over $500,000. He slowly sells them off, but they're traced back to him by the FBI, and he winds up in prison. Amazingly, he only serves a few months before he escapes, headed for California.

Riccio gets a job at a small hobby shop and meets IRENE (18), who loves him despite his troubled past. When he's stopped for a minor traffic ticket, he comes up as an escaped convict and is sent to a brutal maximum security prison. After he gets out on parole in 1986, he and Irene get married as Riccio struggles to find a job. It's tight for a few years, but amazingly, he wins a lottery jackpot of over three quarters of a million! He opens a baseball card shop and makes a huge profit distributing cases at a 300% mark-up. The market changes in the mid 90's, and Riccio's over-zealous buying leaves him hundreds of thousands in debt. He tries to make up his losses in Vegas, but winds up losing even more. Desperate to turn a profit, his store turns into a seedy pawn shop, and he once again gets in trouble when he buys a case of stolen coins. He's sent to prison, an even harsher sentence for repeat offending, and when he gets out in 1994, Irene divorces him.

Riccio moves on to selling celebrity memorabilia, starting with online auctions of Hollywood artifacts and autographs. He partners up with successful dealer JEFF WOOLF (30s) on an auction brokerage. Just as her death becomes front page news, Riccio obtains Anna Nicole Smith's diaries. Shrewd, Riccio realizes that if he promotes the hype surrounding the diaries and not just the auction itself, he'll really cash in. He becomes a hot item on the talk show circuit, promoting the auction and offering pay-per-view downloads of the dairies. His tactics catch the attention of other Hollywood vendors, and soon his company has deals for high profile items and estate sales. One person who becomes fixated on Riccio's success is ALBERT BEARDSLEY (40s), a dangerously unbalanced man who is completely obsessed with OJ SIMPSON (60s). He wants Riccio to find a buyer for a surplus of goods stolen from OJ's trophy room years ago by his old agent. Riccio doesn't want to get caught again for dealing in stolen goods, and decides the best thing to do is to tell OJ, the rightful owner of the goods, who has possession of his stolen property. OJ is furious and wants his stuff back, but Riccio wants to get the police involved. When he finds the LAPD and FBI both unsympathetic to anything having to do with OJ, Riccio uneasily decides that they'll have to take matters into their own hands.

They set Beardsley up in Vegas, with OJ's unpredictable friend CHARLES EHRLICH (40s) posing as the buyer of the stolen goods. Ricco makes sure to set up a hidden tape recorder, and when OJ bursts into the room behind Ehrlich, he's accompanied by a huge posse, some wielding guns. OJ is tried for armed robbery, but Beardsley isn't charged for selling the stolen property. Angry and wanting to protect his own name, Riccio releases his tapes to the police, and simultaneously sells them to TMZ. Thinking he's protecting himself, Riccio is shocked when everyone views him as a conman in the middle of the exchange, setting everyone else up. Though the police drop all charges against him, Riccio's reputation is ruined, costing him some high profile deals. Dejected, he's forced to sell his share of the business to his partner, and move on from the collectibles trade. Still, as he looks back of the crazy ups and downs of his life, he knows his next streak of luck is just around the corner.


COMMENTS: Written in a compellingly unapologetic and revealing tone, this book sparks with potential. Riccio's sometimes sarcastic, always realistic depiction of his past transgressions is consistently interesting. Though he does take time to defend his role in the OJ ordeal, he's the first to admit that he's made mistakes, and never tries to polish his tarnished record. This creates an interesting dynamic: his sometimes pathetic, always entertaining antics seem to beg for acceptance, but never approval. Still, significant tightening and streamlining is required to shape this story into a compelling narrative.

Riccio's tone and darkly comic approach to his tarnished past is refreshing and amusing. He's obviously wise to the Hollywood gossip scene, and his story plays out like an E! special, complete with ups and downs, love and divorce, and of course, prison time. Still, it's an informative glimpse into the sometimes corrupt and wildly unpredictable world of collectibles, especially his experiences during the boom-time of the early 90's baseball card craze. It's a sad but somewhat funny progression to see how Riccio bought collections for pennies, sold them for tens of thousands, and still wound up in debt. There's some potent drama here, as well as some truly unbelievable sequences: he manages to literally walk out of prison, and somehow ends up repeatedly involved in FBI stings. If structured correctly, this could be a very funny trajectory with an unlikely yet always engaging protagonist.

While the book opens with a defense of his involvement in the OJ incident, Riccio's personal stories and the re-telling of his past run-ins with the law are far more compelling. The OJ events could make for a terrific bookend in an adaptation, as the heart of the story is Riccio's rollercoaster of a life. As Riccio has no problem admitting he's into everything for the money and doesn't care how trashy it makes him, his defense that he just wanted OJ to get back his stolen memorabilia can seem thin at times, suggesting further development is required to justify this uncharacteristically selfless behavior. The theme of luck and unpredictability is certainly the strongest theme in this memoir: it almost seems as though he's not entirely behind the wheel of his own fate, which could also be an interesting aspect to play up.

Though Riccio's life is certainly interesting, it sometimes plays out like a cheesy TV movie, requiring more subtext and depth to flesh it out as a theatrical. Tonally, there's definitely potential to flesh out a MATCHSTICK MEN type style here, balancing comedy and drama as the story requires it. One sequence that stands out is a jaw-dropping yet laugh-out-loud funny event involving the sale of his home: he discovers his house has been ransacked by the homeless, and in a fit of rage burns their sleeping bags in his back yard. Oddly,he is jailed for arson, and forced to sign over his truck over to the homeless as compensation. It's an odd turn of events that defies legal logic, but in the grand scheme of this odd life, it's believable. By fleshing out sequences like these, the script could really inject more depth into Riccio's character, making for a meaty yet painfully funny role.

Overall, Riccio's life story is an entertaining mash up of good and bad luck that culminates in his entanglement in the trial that sent OJ to jail. It's a fast-paced, exciting and often amusing story that requires deeper subtext and emotion, but suggests solid potential.

Highly Entertaining - A must Read
This is a highly entertaining memoir that has to read to be believed! My brief review will not do justice to the amazing back story of Tom Riccio's life that culminates with the arrest of O.J. Simpson in a Las Vegas hotel room.Tom Riccio has had had enough ups and downs to last 3 or maybe 4 lifetimes! Just when you think you have read it all the next chapter somehow tops the last with a completely new and wild adventure, more often than not, ending with a tough luck twist. Think "On The Road" meets "Catch Me if You Can." If you are looking for a sensational read with some sharp insight into the sports memorabilia industry this book is a MUST READ!!!

Silver Screen Material
I just finished reading "Busted," and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thomas Riccio has truly led a fascinating life! While there is ample discussion of OJ, the book gets into many other interesting areas as well. For example, I now have a much better understanding of what the memorabilia business is about and what dealers have to do to be successful. And winning a lottery and escaping from prison? As another reviewer commented, this is definitely a movie-worthy story.

A Must Read
This was a great book.The author, Thomas Riccio was very helpful in describing his story before the OJ SIMPSON debacle and during the debacle.The book was so good,I read it in a day.Thomas Riccio tells a few of his life short tales as a story to understanding the methods behind his involvement with OJ.Its got the OJ Nevada incident and Thomas Riccio makes it clear why he had the recorder!Its amazing how his life turned out and this book is interesting with a lot of facts from his experiences.Buy this book and enjoy.

Enough is not Enough
The front cover sleeve used in Thomas J. Riccio's book, "Busted," makes the reader think the contents of the book is cheap and sleazy.Not only that, but it also makes the reader think the contents of the book is all about O.J. Simpson.The front cover sleeve is a misnomer to what the book is all about.

If a rating was allowed for the cover, I would give it a "0" rating.I personally did not like the cover and got rid of it.I appreciated the book much better after that.

The story Thomas Riccio writes is not only amusing, but interesting as well."Busted" tells about the author's upbringing, his family, brothers and twin sister, and how he got involved with petty unlawful incidents while he was growing up.

As the author describes the various deviated incidents in his life, the readers cannot help forgive him for the petty unlawful behavior he had as a kid.All kids, no doubt, have stories to tell similar to Riccio's.However, he does not outgrow the petty wrongs, but in fact takes them to the next level.It is at this point that forgiveness is blind.

This is not to say everything Tom Riccio did was unlawful.Nonetheless, his love for buying and selling memorabilia together with high stakes gambling, more often than not, got him into trouble. The love of buying and selling memorabilia and gambling also sent him several times into a whirl of large amounts of money.He could have been a millionaire.However, the virus inherent in his being of wanting more money; of enough not being enough, caused him not only to lose his wife, home, and friends but to find himselfbehind bars in prison several times.

The last chapter in his book is devoted to the problem of O.J. Simpson in Las Vegas, Nevada. The reader will believe he did not set up O.J.His intent was to help O.J. recover some stolen memorabilia in return for O.J. Simpson's signature on 200 copies of the book, "If I Did It."

Tom Riccio's story is interesting, rousing, but mostly sad. At the end of his story he admits he must get rid of the virus of wanting more; never having enough. Only he knows what is next for Thomas Riccio.

I recommend this amusing, interesting, and exciting book to readers who like to know and learn how "enough" can become a virus of "not enough."
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A fascinating collectors' guide to soccer memorabilia, covering the sport from its formative years to the present day.
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Teams come and go, games are won and lost, records are made and then broken – all the while sports schedules have continued to record history, rally support and inform fans for well over one hundred years. From early schedules that were printed in black and white ink to the present-day colorful mini-brochures, each sports schedule captures a unique time in history for each team. This has turned them into much sought after sports collectible memorabilia items.

Authors Sanjiv Purba and Sandy Sicilia have documented a multitude of sports schedules from the early 20th Century through to the present with 100 colorful illustrations featuring today’s favorite team sports such as baseball, football, basketball and hockey.The book is organized into 60 different cities and your favorite teams are easy to find.

· Baseball standouts:Boston Red Sox (1901 card @ $375), Chicago White Stockings (1876 card @ $850), Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees (1913 card @ $400) and Philadelphia Phillies.· Basketball standouts:Boston Celtics (1946/47 card@ $125), Chicago Bulls, Los Angles Lakers and New York Knicks.· Football standouts:Green Bay Packers, New York Giants, New York Jets, Oakland Raiders and Washington Redskins.· Hockey Standouts:Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadians (1910/1911card @ $350) plus many other teams are identified and priced.

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This book is a must-have gift for anyone interested in skiing or in the art of the poster.Organized by country, it features the world's foremost winter sport by drawing on an unparalleled collection of 800 vintage posters and paintings.Amassed by Mason Beekley over a lifetime dedicated to the celebration of all things skiing, the collection is now housed at the Mammoth Ski Museum in California and open to the public.In the 1910s and 1920s, skiing became the "in" thing among the young and the fashionable, who made such glamorous resorts like St. Moritz, Chamonix, and Garmisch famous.Like car racing, skiing was one of the sports that defined the twentieth-century's notion of the modern.It combined fast-paced action with the need to appear in stylish, sporty yet appropriate attire.Since it took place away from everyday urban life in remote and breathtaking mountain locations, it also combined the romance of travel with the stylishness of après-ski social life and ski chalet rusticity. Even in the steamship era, skiing quickly jumped the Atlantic and spawned such now famous ski resorts such as Vermont's Stowe, Colorado's Aspen, and Canada's Banff and Whistler (all featured here in their pre-war glamour). The book is rounded out by chapters on the contemporary skiing scene and on skiing fashion. ... Read more

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Great Cocktail Table Book
The Art of Skiing: Vintage Posters from the Golden Age of Winter Sport-A Must have for the winter travel enthusiast or ski home owner.

A trip back in time
I bought this book to take to our ski condo.It is fun and the reproductions are good quality.The book is not just a collection of posters, however, as the author describes the development of recreational skiing in Europe and North America.A fun diversion for ski enthusiasts.

Great book - fantastic gift for the skier fanatic!
This book has great visuals, from all different countries, and is a perfect gift for the skier you know who likes old-school stuff. I actually bought this for someone who doesn't understand English, but the artwork stands on its own. ... Read more

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The all-new Standard Catalog of Sports Autographs! It’sloaded with more than 7,500 individual signatures and values fromfootball, basketball, baseball, hockey, racing, golf, boxing,wrestling and more. Over 500 clear, sharp photos will satisfy yourcustomers needs for authenticity and identification.

The sports autograph arena is hot and getting hotter. With thiscomprehensive book, your customers will have accurate information oncurrent stars, hall-of-famers and retired players. Plus, a completelisting for Official Major League, World Series and commemorativebaseballs will help readers determine authenticity. Includes seriousadvice for avoiding fakes and forgeries. From the editor of SportsCollectors Digest, the “bible” for sports collectingenthusiasts.

-More than 7,500 autographs listed and priced.
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Excellent choice
this book covers all sports and is very easy to follow. ... Read more

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Featuring more than 80,000 prices for items ranging from vintage autographs of former greats to the latest bobbleheads, this massive volume contains thousands of updated prices from previous editions. Find pricing and checklists for autographs, equipment, figures, plates, publications, programs, magazines, books, medallions, press pins and badges, ticket stubs, schedules, pennants, and cereal boxes.

New features exclusive to this third edition include the most comprehensive bobblehead checklist and pricing, along with the addition of the most complete sports-related beer can checklist ever compiled. The autograph sections are completely revamped to include today's latest stars, and the figures section is bolstered by the addition of the red-hot McFarlane's Sports Picks.

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Very comprehensive sports manual
If you have anything related to sports (besides baseball cards), this book is excellent.I used it for some old sports magazines from the 1950's on eBay.It was a great for getting ideas on how much things are worth. ... Read more

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This comprehensive guide takes the reader on a historical journey, providing an in-depth look at the icons of sport, captured through their greatest collectibles. Composed by the leading experts in the field, never before has one book covered such a variety of hobby subjects. For those interested in building a fine collection of sports memorabilia, from baseball cards to autographs to game-used bats, each subject is covered in great detail.

Within each chapter, the best of the best has been selected by the experts. Whether you are a hardcore collector or just an avid sports fan, this book not only helps bring the legends of sport to life but it provides crucial tips on how to assemble a world class collection.

From Babe Ruth to Tiger Woods, from Wilt Chamberlain to Joe Namath, every major sport is covered. This book contains hundreds of sports memorabilia images, including many of the finest examples in the world. ... Read more

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A terrific browse for anyone who has ever laid claim to a sports card collection of their own!
Sports card collecting as been an enduringly popular hobby since their advent in the mid-19th century down to the present age. A 376-page compendium, "Collecting Sports Legends" author Joe Orlando provided insightful commentaries while showcasing more than 375 sports cards, some of them truly legendary, many of them extremely valuable, and all of them memorable ephemeria in celebration of outstanding athletes in their chosen fields of sport. Superbly and profusely illustrated throughout out, "Collecting Sports Legends" begins with an informative introduction, 'Ten Tips for Building a Collection', and 'Cardboard Classics: A Look Inside the Top 250 Sportscards in the Hobby'. Then this fascinating repository launches into Orlando's ranking of the twenty most important cards, following grouping sports cards into their own separate categories of baseball, basketball, football, hockey, boxing, golf, and miscellaneous. The next section is 'Building a Dream: A Look at Collecting the Top 30 complete Sets in the Hobby' by Brian Bigelow; 'Collecting Sports Autographs' by Rob Rosen; and 'The Top 100 Autographs in the Hobby' by Steve Grad. More informative sections by Joe Orlando follow including 'Legendary Lumber: A Look at Collecting Game-Used Bats'; The Top 40 Game-Used Bats in the Hobby'; 'Collecting Sports Tickets'; 'Top 15 Sports Tickets in the Hobby'; and 'Tempting Treasures: A Look at Collecting Unopened Packs'. Of special note is the concluding section, 'The Tope 25 Unopened Packs in the Hobby' by Steve Hart. Informed and informative, certain to be a popular addition to personal, professional, academic, and community library Antique/Collectibles reference collections, "Collecting Sports Legends" is a 'must' for the novice sports collector and has a great deal to offer even the more experienced and dedicated sports collecting enthusiast. Above all else, "Collecting Sports Legends' is a terrific browse for anyone who has ever laid claim to a sports card collection of their own!

Beautiful
This is a beautiful collection of photographs and information on the most desirable cards in the sports collecting hobby.I'll never be able to own most of these beauties, but the book is a good substitute.

Sports Legends
SOME OF THE BEST AND GREATEST CARDS AND COLLECTIBLES THE HOBBY HAS TO OFFER ARE SHOWN. FROM HONUS WAGNER,THE BABE, AND MANY,MANY OTHER HALL OF FAMERS.THE BEST OF THE BEST IN EVERY MAJOR SPORT IS COVERED AND VIEWED IN THIS WONDERFUL HOBBY GUIDE.

Excellent overview with fantastic images!
This book provides an excellent overview of the sports card and memorabilia industry.Fantastic images of the great cards in the hobby really stand out!Recommended for novices, hobby veterans, or women who wonder why grown men are so interested in little pictures of athletes on cardboard.

It's a Cardboard Gem!
I had a chance to meet Joe Orlando a couple of years ago, and he was quite charismatic.His latest tome, Collecting Sports Legends, was a great read and featured some fantastic card/player images.Aspiring card collectors would be well-served by obtaining a copy for themselves, and they should pay close attention to Mr. Orlando's suggestions for a thematic collection. ... Read more

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Warman’s enters the hot field of sports collectibles with this new comprehensive sports memorabilia price guide that provides a broad overview of collectibles organized by sport for all collectors—novice to veteran. Each chapter introduces a different sport with a rundown on its history. Covered sports include baseball, football, basketball, hockey, golf, tennis, auto racing, Olympics, horse racing, and boxing. Readers will also find collecting trends and tips, resource listings, periodicals, clubs and web sites.

With a stronger emphasis on older, more valuable items, collectibles covered include: balls, bats, posters, cereal boxes, stamps, publications, programs, uniforms, stadium seats, and many obscure items.

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Warman's Sports Memorabilia
One thing that is not immediately obvious is the year published.
I was a little dissappointed that the information I was given did not include the fact that it was a 2000 issue and not 2001.

Carole

From yearbooks to boxing memorabilia
With Warman's Sports Collectibles, fans of specific sports as well as overall collectors of sports memorabilia receive an excellent guide to the finer art of sports collecting, with values accompanying black and white photos of the pieces. From yearbooks to boxing memorabilia, the collectibles are organized both by sport and type, making Warman's Sports Collectibles easy to refer quickly to for a variety of memorabilia.

The superior visual and informative aid
Warman's Sports Collectibles is an exhaustive value and identification guide designed to help anyone, from amateur to veteran collector, quickly and easily understand the fascinating hobby of sports collecting. This comprehensive and reliable guide covers a wide variety of sports memorabilia, including items tied into auto racing, baseball, basketball, bowling, boxing, figure skating, football, golf, hockey, horse racing, Olympics, soccer, tennis, and wrestling. Each sports field has its own chapter. Collecting tips are provided, with in-depth historical background on each type of sport, facts, dates, and figures. At 352 pages with a massive 1,500 black and white photos, Warman's Sports Collectibles is the superior visual and informative aid for any collector looking for just the right item! ... Read more

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A radio/television sports announcer who moved to Baltimore in what turned out to be the final decade of the Baltimore Colts, Ted Patterson has amassed one of the world's premier collections of Baltimore sports memorabilia. In this short history of football in Baltimore, he takes us on a tour of his remarkable collection -- not only to highlight memorable games and players but also to explore the pop culture that surrounded and has survived them.

Patterson introduces us to the teams and early stars of Johns Hopkins and Morgan State; Army-Navy games in old Municipal Stadium; high-school rivalries like City-Poly, Loyola-Calvert Hall, Gilman-McDonogh, and the great years of Patterson High; the original Colts (colors silver and green); and, at considerable length, the legendary Baltimore Colts of Johnny Unitas, Lenny Moore, Raymond Berry, Alan "the Horse" Ameche, Artie Donovan, and Lydell Mitchell. He also includes the lastest chapters in this eventful story: the fight to bring pro football back to the city, the dawn of the Ravens' era, and the building of a new football stadium in downtown Baltimore.

Football in Baltimore offers an engaging, wonderfully illustrated history of Baltimore's love affair with the game -- a running essay on the large subject of football in Baltimore's past along with the varied and highly colorful material objects that the game generated for the sake of the fans and that fans generated for the fun of it. Here are game programs, autographed pictures, press guides, bubblegum cards, comic strips, advertising ephemera, and miscellaneous collectibles from championship banners to the special-issue sets of china that Carroll Rosenbloom once gave to the Colts and their wives as Christmas gifts.

This altogether new take on the game and the storied Colts will appeal to every lover of the college and pro game -- and may even inspire popular support for a Colts museum to match the Babe Ruth House and Museum. Patterson's engaging writing style keeps the pages turning. Dozens of color and black-and-white photographs from Patterson's collection will captivate Colts fans, football lovers, local history buffs, and sports memorabilia collectors.

Customer Reviews (2)

Baltimore Colts Football
Very well written and informative book of one of footballs' greatest teams.The Colts were a Baltimore icon, and this book is wonderfully descriptive in regard to how the club formed, the winning tradition, and the fateful day they left a heartbroken town.A must read for any Baltimore Colts fan!Also contains great pictures of memorabilia.

Great for the Baltimore Native
My Dad grew up in Baltimore and played football for Loyola High and Johns Hopkins University.We gave him this book for Christmas last year and he loved it - a wonderful gift for bringing back memories. ... Read more

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