Most of the items in REA are way out of my price range. I was left far behind on the only items I bid on: $3,250 with the juice for the 1973 Mike Schmidt Puerto Rican Winter League contract and $1,650 with the juice for a 1908 Reading Pretzels photo with Home Run Baker.
A 1972 Schmidt Puerto Rican winter league contract sold for $1,100 in a 2005 auction at Leland's. I know there are some rabid Schmidt collectors out there, but I never expected the contract to go that high.
I am not a pic collector, but the Reading Pretzels piece was cool, since I live 20 minutes from Reading, Pa., and have attended minor league games there since I was a kid. I wonder if the pic was a 1/1. I have seen a couple Home Run Baker/Reading Pretzels postcards in recent years, but never a team cabinet photo before.
Last edited by Bored5000; 05-19-2013 at 05:57 AM.
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