Sports Collectibles Sale for Great Cause

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Mods - move this out of football if you hate it here, just my best guess.

Man Donates Son's Sports Collection to Benefit Nederland Teen Group

What:
Sports memorabilia sale to benefit Nederland's TEENS Inc.
When:
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday
Where:
Nederland Middle School gymnasium, 597 Eldora Road

A guy up in Nederland who collected sports memorabilia with his late son, has donated the whole collection to "Teens Inc" and they are selling it off this weekend. Sounds like some allsome stuff.

Since I am going through buffs football withdrawal, I might make the drive and see what's up.

Within a decade, the pair had amassed a collection of rarities such as one of the world's only perfect-condition set of 1989 Score trading cards, a complete set of John Elway cards -- including one of only a handful of perfect condition Elway rookie cards and a little-known rookie card from 1981 when Elway played minor-league baseball -- and autographs of sports legends such as Michael Jordan and Joe DiMaggio.
There are thousands of other autographed pictures, complete with certificates of authenticity, along with signed baseballs, basketballs, footballs, hockey sticks and knick knacks.
Some of the one-of-a-kind items in the collection could fetch tens of thousands of dollars at auction, including original artwork for trading card packs and original autographs used as templates by trading card companies. There's even the original artwork used in the mid-1980s to package Michael Jackson trading cards, which Shortridge suspects has skyrocketed in value since the singer's death.

This weekend, members of TEENS Inc. will gather up hundreds of pieces from the Shortridge collection to sell off at Nederland Middle School, 597 Eldora Road. Every dollar from the sale will go to the organization.