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Multi-Sport Books and Grab Bags
7 Lots
 Lot 161. 17 Books on Various Sports Topics – Birthdays, Black Athletes, Bowling and More! Softcovers unless otherwise noted. 1. Popular Sports: Their Origin and Development, Frank D. Collins, 1935, vg+ to ex hardcover, no dj. 2. The Tumult and the Shouting, Grantland Rice, 1954, vg-ex hardcover, vg dj. 3. Sport: A Philosophic Inquiry, Paul Weiss, 1969, g. 4. Eugene Lesser’s Sports Birthdays, 1985, nm. 5-6. AP Sports Almanac 1974, mint hardcover, vg-ex softcover. 7. AP Sports Almanac 1975, vg+. 8. Guiness Sports Record Book, Norris McWhirter, 1976, ex. 9. The Illustrated Sports Record Book, Zander Hollander, 1975, vg, writing on cover. 10. Behind Closed Doors, Bob Woolf, 1977, writing on cover. 11. Great Sports Reporting, Allen Kirschner, 1975, vg+. 12. The Black Athlete, Jack Orr, 1970, p, complete, no cover. 13. World’s Champs (Boxing), Lester Bromberg, 1958, g-vg, writing on cover. 14. Official NFL Record Book (1970 Edition), 1970, vg. 15. Amazing Bo Jackson, Randi Hacker, 1990, ex. 16. Guide to Natural Bowling, Victor Kalman, 1959, vg-ex. 17. 1976 Official (Softball) Guide, ex. Also, the Aug. 1947 Canadian Sports Digest with wrestler Whipper Billy Watson on the cover, ex.
Minimum Bid $7.
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 Lot 162. 9 Sports Books Including the Inaugural Encyclopedia of Sports by Frank G. Menke. The Encyclopedia, which grew over the decades, was first issued in 1939 as a self-published volume by the author. Later, A. S. Barnes served as the publisher. This initial 320-page hardback covers sports from angling to yachting, and baseball, football and other sports between. Tight vg-ex copy with the owner’s name in pencil on the flyleaf; no dj as issued. Among the other books are Best Sports Stories of 1945, Irving T. Marsh and Edward Ehre, 1946, vg-ex book, vg dj, and a paperback, NY Times Official Sports Record Book 1967, Frank Litsky, 1967, ex. The following paperbacks average ex: Tom Harmon’s Book of Sports Information (1963), The Book of Sports Lists (1979) and #2 (1980), The Sports Nostalgia Quiz Book #3 (1979), Guinness Sports Record Book (1976) and Ripley’s Believe It or Not Sports Oddities (1969).
Minimum Bid $15.
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 Lot 163. Multi-Sport Grab Bag – Clemens Hat, Football and Track & Field Labels, NFL Mug. 1. 8 ¾” x 12” Sunkist label featuring runners in a stadium, ex-m. 2. 9” x 9” football Champ Brand label for Louisiana sweet potatoes and yams, ex-m; 1920s-30s style football artwork. 3. 1969 NFL 50th anniversary 6 ¼” tall plastic insulated mug. Has logos of the NFL and AFL teams. 4. Boston baseball cap with a Roger Clemens facsimile autograph, nm-m.
Winning Bid $15.
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 Lot 164. Hockey, Football and Baseball Mini-Grab Bag. Hockey is represented by a complete vg to vg+ Monarch Official Hockey Puck box containing a vg-ex puck. The football entry is a 1951 Bowman card of #57 Jon Baker. The card has a number added to the back and otherwise is f-g. There are three Topps baseball cards from 1958, #223 vg-ex, 227 p, and 356 p, and four from 1959, #109 f, 244 (2) one g-vg and one f, and 251 Clete Boyer vg. One Topps card from 1957 and three each from 1958 and 1959 have writing on the back, typically a number or “TB.” The front of 1958T #238 Mazeroski grades vg-ex. The fronts of the others average g-vg.
Winning Bid $12.
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 Lot 165. Sports Grab Bag – Basketball, Football, Hockey, Olympics, Soccer and NASCAR. This collection comprises programs, cards and other memorabilia. Basketball: 1-2. 1976 and 1978 Harlem Globetrotters yearbooks, vg-ex. 3. Opened Coke can commemorating Villanova’s 1985 NCAA championship. 4. 175 1990s cards, many stars, from Hoops, Fleer and Skybox, average ex. Football: 5. McDonald’s History of the Super Bowl magazine-format publications, Vol. 1 (2), Vol. 2 (2) and Vol. 3 (3), vg. 6. 40 1986 Steelers Police cards, ex+ overall, six players including three Stallworth cards. Hockey: 7. Early 1980s Ponderosa Steakhouse 12 ½” x 19” poster of Pittsburgh’s Michel Dion, vg+. 8. Topps cards: six from 1975-76, 53 from 1976-77, six 1976-77 Inserts including #5 Dryden and 44 from 1979-80, average vg+ to ex. Soccer: 9. 1982 MISL Memphis at Pittsburgh program, vg-ex. Olympics: 10. Four 4” x 6” “Welcome” flags from the 1984 LA Olympics, vg+ to ex overall. NASCAR: 11. 1997 Pinnacle Jeff Gordon card, nm-m. Also, 11 Rocky II cards, ex. More than 350 individual items.
Winning Bid $30.
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