Selling cards to a players family

[Leon]

I gave a very cool card to a grandchild of a major league player. He came on the forum and asked about cards of his grandfather. So it was paying it forward a little bit. He enjoyed it.

[drcy]

I sold a great original photo of Chicago Bears legend Marshall Goldberg to Golberg through his grandson. His grandson said Marshall, who was about 90 at the time, said he'd never seen it before.

[obiwan1129]

I am a shirt tail relation to Dick Wakefield. My Grandpa's sister, my Aunt Betty, married his brother, my Uncle Jack. I met Dick once when I was about 7 or 8. I tracked down his Bowman card when I was in high school. In the early days of Ebay I tracked down all of his major cards. My mom's cousin is Dick's godchild. She is a big baseball fan as well. We both, unknowingly, bid against each other on one of his baseball gloves on Ebay. Whoops.

Dick was friends with Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. According to my cousin he was godfather to their daughter Carrie also.

Last summer I sent my cards over to my cousin, she has a small display set up at her home of his memorabilia. I kept a Dick Wakefield autograph I had. My grandpa got it years ago when a bunch of players got together to do a fund raiser dinner for Dick. Sparky Anderson and Jolting Joe were there too, I have both of their autographs from that dinner.

Of course, it should be noted that Dick's father, Howard, played ball too for Cleveland back in the early 1900's. My cousin went to the HOF library many years ago and looked up her Grandpa Howard. He died young, long before she was born. The librarian at the HOF brought out a picture of him and it brought her to tears as she had never seen a photo of him.

[riggs336]

I gave Ernie Lombardi's grandson a raw 1941 Double Play of Lombardi. At least I think I did...I mailed it to someone named Lombardi who made that claim.

[justrun7]

Jeremy Hazelbaker's mom bought one of his autographed rookie cards from me on eBay.

Johnathan Pettibone bought his game used Phillies jersey from me on eBay as well.

A Syracuse player bought his game used football jersey from me on eBay.

Anthony Volpe's grandfather is known for buying lots of his cards online.