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My 5000th Post and A Holy Grail Type Pickup
Went to a local auction last night for the sports items from the estate of Don "Fox" Bryant who started his career as a sports writer for the Lincoln newspaper and later became the Sports Information Director and Assistant AD for the University of Nebraska. He was a legend around here. I am good friends with the guys who run the auction company that handled the sale and I got a text from one of them a month back that said I'd be interested in this sale because it has Lincoln Chiefs items, including a "painted baseball". As soon as I read that I texted back to show me a pic. I was hoping beyond hope that the ball was a George Sosnak. He texted me a pic and as soon as I saw it I knew it was. I've been waiting an entire month to get my hands on it and indeed I made it mine last night. Certainly a grail type item for my collection and one that of course I never knew existed and probably very few people even knew it existed. I picked up a lot of other stuff last night too, including the official scorebook for the Chiefs from 1956-57 which includes all the games played by Dick Stuart during his record breaking 66 homer year, but this ball was the highlight for me. I have no idea who wrote the inscription of the sticker from "George Soshner".
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That's fantastic! Congratulations! Do you mind if I ask what it brought relative to what it is worth--no need to give actual values just curious how competition for it at the auction was.
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I paid next to nothing for it compared to relative value because the auction was centered around Nebraska Football memorabilia and 99.9% of the crowd was there for football items. The auction had been advertised for nearly a month and I was hoping no one who read the catalog would know the name Sosnak or research it. Luckily for me no one did.
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Awesome ball! Congrats.
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Amazing item Dan! Quite a significant piece for guys that collect items like we do. Congrats!
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Sosnak ball
Holy grail, indeed.
Fantastic. Congrats Dan. Glad it is where it belongs, and that you survived the torturous month waiting for it |
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Thanks guys. And it was indeed torturous!
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Congrats. Awesome Ball!!!
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Oh Boy !!
WOW !!!! That is quite a treasure. Congrats!
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Congrats.
That ball is cool, but the scorebook sounds amazing. Doug |
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