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Posted By: Josh Evans

Friends:
As you might already know our Sports Memorabilia, Cards & Vintage Photography auction closes tonight. If anyone has any questions call 516 409 9700.

Good luck,

Josh Evans
Chairman
Lelands.com

Some of the highlights include:
-Fine collection of vintage baseball and sports cards including a fresh Connecticut area collection with a beautiful 1933 Goudey Complete Set, 1968 Topps Roberto Clemente 3-D (PSA10), several lots of Toleteros baseball cards and other rare Negro League pieces, 1935 National Chicle Football Original Art, and more.
-A half million dollars worth of vintage baseball, sports, and non sports photographs from the SFX Archive including an amazing collection of Dead Ball Era material with rare images of Cobb, Johnson, Roush, Evers, Collins, Bender, McGraw, Chance and more. Plus, original Carl Horner images used on the T206 tobacco cards, Nat Feins Pulitzer Prize winning Babe Bows Out, vintage photos of Ruth and Gehrig, exceptional stadium images, a large Jackie Robinson collection including his first game with Brooklyn in 1947, famous moments like Sandy Amoros 1955 World Series catch and Willie Mays 1954 World Series catch, and vintage boxing images of Sullivan, Corbett, Johnson, Willard, Ketchel, Sharkey, Fitzsimmons, Gans and Siki.
-One of the finest Roberto Clemente collections ever to come to auction including a handwritten letter signed Momen, 77 Clemente photographs offered as a single lot, his 1972 signed contract and supplement (his last), 1972 All-Star Game used bat, batting helmet from the mid-1960s, a mint single-signed baseball, a single-signed ball from 1971 (hit #2819), and a mid-1960s game worn uniform from his San Juan Senadores winter league team.
-Superb Boston Red Sox material including World Series rings from 2004 and 2007 in their original boxes, and Ted Williams original 1937 signed player assignment to the Boston Red Sox
-An important fresh to the market program collection including the first ever modern World Series Program (Game 1 1903), an 1889 World Series, Temple Cup program a run of All Staer, and over 10,000 publications.
-New York Yankees items include signed team baseballs from 1927 and 1928, three Babe Ruth single signed balls, a 1932 Ruth game used hickory bat, and one of two known pieces left of the original Yankee Stadium façade.
-1898 Cap Anson Silver Presentation Bat
-Otto Grahams 1950s Cleveland Browns game worn jacket
-Remarkable items from the family of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, include his whistle, signed handwritten letters and an archive of documents related to the games invention.
- There is also a wonderful collection of news photography including several Ansel Adams, vast civil rights collection, and crime photography depicting Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger, Ma Barker, Albert Anastasia, Lucky Luciano, Legs Diamond, and the St. Valentines Day Massacre. There is a collection of presidents throwing out first pitches back to William Howard Taft, historical images like the Hindenburg, Titanic, Ruby shooting Oswald, and the Vietnam War. Hollywood is represented by such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

Full lot descriptions can be accessed with key words, and found at www.lelands.com.