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joshleland
07-10-2009, 05:08 PM
Lelands.com Famously Infamous $1,000 Net54.com Dinner Hobby Trivia Contest


Rules
Grand Prize is a $1,000 credit to Lelands.com’s next auction (November, 2009). The credit is not transferable.
Winner must attendee of the Network 54 Dinner at the National Sports Collectors Convention (NSCC). Date of the dinner is Thursday July 30, 2009 at 6pm at the Sheraton Cleveland Airport Hotel.
Employees and former employees of Lelands are unable to participate. Lelands reserves the right to cancel entry for any reason they see fit. Ties will be broken by choosing the winner at random at the National.
Trivia Contest answers must be emailed to Leon Luckey at leonl@flash.net or dropped off in person at his booth at the National Sports Collectors Convention. The deadline for entries is the day BEFORE the dinner (Wednesday July 29th).
Please do not post any answers on Net54baseball.com.
Good luck!


What illegal occupations do these two men formerly share: Gray Flannel Auctions’ Richie Russek and Josh Evans of Lelands.com’s grandfather Meyer “Slim” Rosen?

What baseball card dealer financed the famed Mr. Mint 1952 Topps Find and lived to regret it?

Everyone knows that Alan Rosen was arrested in the 1980s for illegally buying Drake’s Cakes baseball cards “out the back door” from a grocery store employee. But tell us what famed baseball card personality bailed him out of jail?

What Las Vegas casino magnate bought the Wilt Chamberlain 100-point game ball but had the sale cancelled on him after the authenticity was questioned by Wilt’s former Philadelphia Warrior teammates? Yes it was a Lelands “no sale.”

This is an easy one. What Baseball Hall of Famer was screwed by his lonsman in the Bernie Madoff Scandal?

The body of what infamous 1980s sports memorabilia dealer on the lam was discovered in a Las Vegas hotel room partially decomposed by lime?

Who was the first noted baseball forger to go to prison? Hint: He was from the Cincinnati area?

Name the collector who bought the infamous “Pine Tar Bat” from George Brett only to have to return it after Brett’s brother (not fellow pitcher Ken) unjustly told George he got screwed?

Josh Evans almost did not make his “last minute” 1989 Nightline television appearance because he was flying back from a rock concert in L.A. What was the name of the band?

What baseball card super collector is one of the two executors of Michael Jackson’s will and estate?

BillyCoxDodgers3B
07-10-2009, 09:25 PM
I believe the answer to each question would be "Keith Olbermann". Where's my $1000?

Edit: Sorry, I seriously would have thought that this was someone's idea of a joke. My apologies. McGreevy.