WaltDroposGoddaughter
08-03-2005, 04:16 PM
I hope I'm not breaking any rules with this post . . I'm hoping I could maybe get an opinion on an item I have listed for auction on Ebay. Despite my user name (for you youngsters out there, Walt Dropo played for Boston and was AL ROY in 1950) I don't know much about baseball - or what diehard fans consider collectible and what they consider just . . .obscure. Anyway, Walt was my grandfather's best friend - and also First Selectman of Plainfield, CT (where Moosup, Walt's home town is). Their friendship and Walt's love for the community he grew up in led to a benefit game being played there after the season Walt was named ROY. On October 145, 1950 the "Connecticut All-Stars" (whoever they were- I have the roster, but don't recognize any names) played Birdie Tebbets' All-Stars. Birdie would get together a bunch of guys post-season and go 'barnstorming' around New England to raise money for charity. The team members weren't all Red Sox: this particular year, Snuffy Stirnweiss Jim Hegan and Bob Kennedy - all Cleveland Browns - played on the team with Birdie; Walt; Johnny Pesky and Maury McDermott. Birdie also brought along Phil Rizzuto for good measure.
So. I've had one copy of that day's game program all my life - protected by glass and acid-free paper. But when I went through my grandmother's things, I found one more that she had kept in a scrapbook. My first thought was that it was so obscure that no one would be interested in it - and then someone told me that *because* it's so obscure, probably lots of people would be interested in it . . So I put it up for auction - (Item #5226058611 if anyone wants to take a look) but hardly anyone has even hit the page, never mind bid on the thing. I know I have it in the right categories and the keywords are good . . .I went "all-out" when I listed it - bought about $50 worth of "extras" (bold type, a border, etc.) to make the listing stand out - so if the consensus of opinion is that it's only worth the paper it's printed on, I'd rather just cancel the auction and keep it.
Thoughts? :dunno:
So. I've had one copy of that day's game program all my life - protected by glass and acid-free paper. But when I went through my grandmother's things, I found one more that she had kept in a scrapbook. My first thought was that it was so obscure that no one would be interested in it - and then someone told me that *because* it's so obscure, probably lots of people would be interested in it . . So I put it up for auction - (Item #5226058611 if anyone wants to take a look) but hardly anyone has even hit the page, never mind bid on the thing. I know I have it in the right categories and the keywords are good . . .I went "all-out" when I listed it - bought about $50 worth of "extras" (bold type, a border, etc.) to make the listing stand out - so if the consensus of opinion is that it's only worth the paper it's printed on, I'd rather just cancel the auction and keep it.
Thoughts? :dunno: