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Posted By: Dan Bretta

There are definitely deals to be had though. I think just not really in baseball. A local fellow here consigned his Husker football collection this last year to Mastro and he was particularily unhappy with the way they listed his items. They put all of the programs into one lot when many of the programs were worth over a thousand dollars each. They put all of Bob Devaney's memorabilia into one lot, et cetera. I heard tell that he tried to get them to pull some of the items, but they wouldn't let him. (I'm hearing this secondhand so I don't know if it's entirely true). Had I known about the items in the auction I would have tried to win some of them because most of this stuff hit ebay shortly afterwards and went for triple what Mastro got out of it. I noticed in the last two Mastro auctions there were more Husker items. Leftover stuff found in the corner? Having been in their offices I could see how something could get lost. I couldn't imagine anyone consigning more Husker items after the disappointing showing they had in the previous auction.