With sport becoming such a huge money spinner it seems that selling the memorabilia is too.

Would you pay for things like a signed program from your favourite spotsman and how much?

Do you have anything like this?

These channel Nine promotions with frame by frame pictures of Glenn MacGrath bowling just seem like an opportunity to cash in. I'd much prefer autograph things where the people had to work to get it (excluding a minature bat signed by the English 2002 cricketers )... like standing outside the changerooms waiting for the players to come out and begging them to sign the autograph book and gently harrasing them on the way to their car. And I hate the items that are signed by "the remaining survivors". I just can't take things as really authentic unless they were signed when the sportsmen was actually playing.

Is a bat that "honours Steve Waugh as the first Australian to play 300 one-day Internationals. Encased full sized bat signed by Steve Waugh with two original hand painted images by Dave Thomas on the bat. Original art on the surounding mat together with a narrative." worth $899?

Is a "Pair of jerseys featuring the 2002 Bledisloe Cup and TriNations winners. Wallaby jersey is fully autographed and New Zealand Jersey has full squad on card." worth $2,300?


Is Wayne Pearce's actual 1985 Kangaroos jersey worth $2,500? (well, yes, obviously )


Sorry not to include items from soccor, baseball or gridiron, I wouldn't know what was a rip off or what wasn't, Perhaps you could give examples from your own sports?

Just off topic slightly, I received a commemerative biscuit tin with Bradman photos on it for Christmas 2000 from my brother-in-law. It cost him about $8.
Bradman died in Jan, 2001 and, within a week, that same tin, without the biscuits, was going on e-bay for $70!

Nah, that's the sort of thing I mean too, Dalgleish. All Bradman stuff has gone up since he died, but that was to be expected. Bradman, even in his later years, made sure to autograph as many things as he could so his signature would be worth less to sell. But people still are willing to pay quite a bit for any of his things.

A few years before he died there was an auction and a program signed by the Frank Worrell West Indies team ... the WHOLE team, went for less than a similar program signed by only Bradman.

I have a signed Manchester United football from the 1999 treble winning team, which is sitting nicely in a cabinet at the moment. Wouldn't swap it for anything.

I've got a Rugby League Week magazine signed by the 1985 Queensland State of Origin team. The greatest team ever. Lewis, Langer, Gilly, Lindner, Jackson, Miles, McIndoe, French, Backo, Dowling, Shearer etc.. it's probably worth something but I have it scrunched up in some cupboard.

I've also got a unsigned program with Wally Lewis and my name in opposing teams. Worth nothing money wise but plenty of value to me in memories.

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I've also got a unsigned program with Wally Lewis and my name in opposing teams. Worth nothing money wise but plenty of value to me in memories.

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I take it that Wally's team won?

Just on the news tonight they were reporting that the baggy green cap that Don Bradman wore in his last test is being auctioned and is expected to get $200,000.

Whoa!

Come off it Jillian, you don't have a signed cricket bat - but Conor has! (are you jealous! (lol)) That little bat is priceless - as were all the other souvenirs collected over the years and are now being sold.
Who would have guessed that Henry Cooper would have to sell his Lonsdale Belts and which avid boxing fan wouldn't want to own one if they could afford it.
I don't see very much difference in a signed football shirt and a signed Andy Warhol Print but the amounts of money that they are sold for is obscene.

I collect memorabilia. I go to a lot of Minor League Baseball games, and wait outside the locker room after the game and beg for autographs. Most Minor League players will sign, unless they're just really busy that day. I went to a game one time, and a player just went running by (after the game) without stopping to say anything to anyone. A week later I went back, and he remembered me, and apologized for not stopping for anyone, but he was about to miss a flight. Getting back to topic now, I've also mailed baseball cards with self addressed stamped envelopes to LOTS of Major League Baseball players, with short notes asking them to sign the card and send it back. I've got a lot of big name players that way. Of course I can't verify the authenticity, but in my heart I feel that the player signed his own name. In 1994 when the Arkansas Razorbacks won the NCAA Tournament (college basketball), my sister was living in Arkansas and bought the Special Edition Sports Illustrated that was only about the Razorbacks. She got all of the players to sign it for me. I have no idea about a price value for any of my stuff, but it's worth a lot to me.

Chippy, that's exactly what I was trying to say - each bit isn't worth the paper it's written on to anyone else at the moment but to you it's beyond value. I hope you continue to collect and maybe one-day your great-great-grandchild will have an heirloom worth a fortune.