What's value? 1953 World Series National Announcer Gene Kelly Hand Scored Scorebook!

[Jantz]

Cool "One of a Kind" item!

As far as value, I have no clue. Whatever someone is willing to pay I guess.

It would be a keeper for my PC if I owned it.


Jantz

[KC Doughboy]

Thanks Jantz... It is an amazing item! It literally gives me chills flipping through it, looking at the World Series, knowing that each pencil mark was added as history was being made.

Baseball was king of the World in 1953 and the TV broadcast was only available in limited markets around NYC, so the rest of humanity was on the edge of their seats, listening to Gene Kelly describe each and every play.

I purchased a group of items from Gene Kellys personal collection, but went in 50/50 with a fellow collector, so unfortunately I can't just hold onto it. I will enjoy it for the 3, 6, 12 months, or however long it takes to sell.

I hope someone can give me some direction to head to find a fair market value!

[GoldenAge50s]

Terrific item that needs to be offered by one of the auction houses to realize it's full value.

[doug.goodman]

Wow!

[conor912]

Great piece! I agree with Fred....if you had to sell, you'd have to put it on the block and let 'er rip. You could tell me $200 or $20k and I'd believe you either way.

[KC Doughboy]

I'm just a little hesitant in choosing the auction house route. I just got done "giving away" a lot of nice stuff through a major aution house (1952 Topps Mantle 4.5, 1933 Goudey Set, 1941 Play Ball Set, 1960 Topps NM-MT+ set, along with several graded DiMaggios from the 40's, including some auto'd, plus several other high end collectibles), and the burning sensation from that experience hasn't faded yet!
Does anyone know of any "experts" in this arena that could at least give me a ballpark price and maybe share what some comparible items have sold for?

[ramram]

Eric,

I collect rare scorebooks and have a few dozen of them. That said, pricing can be all over the place. There's not too many people that collect them for one reason or another, so they can go very cheap or for quite a bit depending on the content and if you have at least two very interested bidders. I'm fascinated by them because they often capture the only detailed play-by-play of some important games/teams.

Interestingly, similar to what you have, I have a few hundred bound scoresheets from Philadelphia radio announcer Claude Haring which cover games at Shibe Park from the 1940's to the early 1960's.

Rob M.

Stachel Paige's first Major League win on 7/15/48 as noted in Haring's scorebook. "Page" (sic) won in relief against the Philadelphia A's -

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In the front of one of his binders is that oh so famous announcement that was made before every game:

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[GoldenAge50s]

Originally Posted by KC Doughboy

I'm just a little hesitant in choosing the auction house route. I just got done "giving away" a lot of nice stuff through a major aution house (1952 Topps Mantle 4.5, 1933 Goudey Set, 1941 Play Ball Set, 1960 Topps NM-MT+ set, along with several graded DiMaggios from the 40's, including some auto'd, plus several other high end collectibles), and the burning sensation from that experience hasn't faded yet!

Eric--

Are you saying you didn't recv anything "close" to the going rate for those cards?
Will you share which auction house you used so we can be alert to keeping our "eye" on them?