Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risky, low-brow affair only a bargain hunter could love? Not anymore. Now the 255-year-old New York City-based auction house Sotheby's is bringing some class (and clout) to the category with its plans to start selling items online, beginning in July with baseball memorabilia. You'll have to wait for the big stuff, though; for now, only items valued under $10,000 will be sold on the site...
...needs a stock portfolio when you've got baseball memorabilia? Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball (not even the one that broke Ruth's record) set its own record at auction last week. But don't bet the farm on your signed Hank Aaron mitt yet. It's a steep drop to the next nine highest prices paid for sports memorabilia at public auction...
...part scientist, part activist, part barker and part kid. The kid, recently turned 49, is the same one who grew up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, N.Y., under the joint tutelage of a mother interested in the natural world, and Tarzan; Mittermeier continues to collect Tarzan novels and memorabilia. He and Peter A. Seligmann, CI's founder and chief executive, have gained an enormous amount of money, respect and attention for their 11-year-old organization, based in Washington. When Mittermeier is in barker mode, he makes the brashest p.r. rep seem shy; a good portion of our week together...
...exhibit--which displays playbills, advertisements and other magic memorabilia--was assembled by the Harvard Theatre Collection...
...Honus Wagner card, with a portrait of the all-time great Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop, is one of the rarest of all baseball cards. An identical one was sold by Christie's in September of 1996, for $640,000--a record for any item of sports memorabilia at auction...