baseball memorabilia, sporting goodsThe other night I got hooked on a reality show about a family who runs a super successful pawn shop in Las Vegas. The show is like an exciting Antiques Roadshow. It is all about the items people bring in to sell or pawn, where they came from and what they are worth. One of the episodes I watched had a guy who brought in a quilt of hundreds of important American figure signatures ranging from Jimmy Carter to Pete Rose. I don’t want to bore you with the details but I came out learning something new about baseball memorabilia, well I guess any memorabilia for that matter.

Signatures are worth more alone then all together. The quilt had big names in baseball like Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose and more. The pawn shop guy thought about buying the quilt and then cutting it up into pieces to sell the signatures separately but then couldn’t justify paying the 50,000 dollars the quilt owner wanted. Most of the baseball memorabilia I have is more sentimental then valuable but it is good to know autographs are best printed on a separate palce per name. I like to think of baseball to football memorabilia as memory markers over something worth cash because they all have a priceless story. I think this is true for all sporting goods.