Here's my Hank Aaron Sports Illustrated #715 poster framed and matted on the wall in my baseball room. Not the most valuable or rarest item in my collection but certainly one that I love and get asked many times how I got it. Well in 1989-1990 a friend of mine bought out the contents of a collectibles store and called me and said he had a box of 100 of these posters rolled and wrapped in clear plastic holders from Sports Illustrated and did i want them for $1.00 a poster . I immediately bought them and called my autograph partner and we decided to sell 10 posters for $20.00 each and they sold in one show. So we arranged through our contact to have Hank Aaron sign the remaining 90 along with our 100 Ron Lewis 500 HR posters for the unheard of price of $25.00 per poster. We had the remaining 90 SI 715 posters signed and agreed to sell all but 20 ( keeping 10 for each of us). We had 20 plain signed for sale. 30 mounted on foam core board , and 20 framed and matted. We sold all the signed posters of the HR # 715 within 1 year.
It's the only poster size image I have seen of this view and the baseball in sight and circled . Again it's one of my favorite pieces.
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