What's new in your collection?

How about an ongoing thread to highlight the new additions to your collection?

Whether it's a through-the-mail freebie or a big buck acquisition... it's all good. Show us what you got!

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Permalink Reply by Bradford on February 21, 2015 at 3:20pm

Those are beautiful. I would've never known that to be Marka Hamill's signature. I like it much better than his later signatures (which is characteristic of celebs sigs as they get older).

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on February 21, 2015 at 3:22pm

Very nice pieces Pete.

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Permalink Reply by David S on February 22, 2015 at 5:44am

I went to an interesting local estate auction yesterday. They featured items from the library of former MLB Scout Brad Kohler. There were probably about 300-500 baseball books. Most of them were biographies & coffee table-type books. Of course I looked through everyone of them, hoping to find a needle in a haystack, and came across a few cool items!! For those that don't know, Kohler was a very well respected scout for 41 years, having scouted players such as Mike Piazza (high school), Craig Biggio (college), Mike Mussina, Tino Martinez, Terry Francona (high school), Mo Vaughn, Jamie Moyer, etc.

I found out from one of the auctioneers that the family kept most of his autographed items after he passed away.

Sorting through all the books I came across some pretty cool items, that I ended up acquiring.

They include: autographed Ted Williams - The Science of Hitting, Seattle Pilots 1969 Media Guide (their only year in existence), 1970 Brewers first-year Yearbook, 1984 Arizona State University Baseball guide (Barry Bonds), Connie Mack Anniversary Program from 1944, and a few cool Scouting items. Here are some photos...

They also auctioned off his radar gun, which unfortunately, I did not win.