Mets E-Bay Baubles of the Day 2006

[Guest KC]

This book is up on ebay, but why the heck is it so rare that Amazon is
getting $170 for it used?

Anyone know the story behind this book?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

]http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/customer-reviews/stars-5-0.gif Izenberg's Work Sets Standard for Sports Histories, July 12, 1999 Reviewer: A reader Jerry Izenberg's Greatest Game Ever Played is a review and analysis of Game 6 of the 1986 National League Championship, a duel between the New York Mets and Houston Astros. Replete with player biographies and an in-depth study of key plays throughout the series, this book is a must-read for any baseball fan, but particularly those in New York and Houston who reminisce about the Greatest Game Ever Played, Knepper vs. Ojeda.

I doubt that many Houston fans will want to pay $170 to remember that game.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I doubt I paid $10 for mine. Not even sure where it is now.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Thats surprising. I could see if the sellers said "Signed by..." or even signed by the author himself

Could possibly be out of print, but even there I've never heard of out of print books being THAT much! Go to any used bookstore (admitedly a dying bred especially in these parts) and you get bargins or close to the original retail price

Then again I've never really searched Amazon's Used and Out Of Print selections.

Could also be covering for Amazon seller costs

By the way, I got the book sometime after it came out (around 87-88) and soon after I purchased an Astros 1986 LCS program with Glenn Davis and Mike Scott celebrating the final out of Scott's division clinching no-no (Will Clark also appears on the cover) and actually used the book to "score" the program!

Probably one of the only books that gives you the complete play-by-play of a game!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I dug mine up, a first edition in very good (slightly chipped) condition I got at $4 from a dealer three years back, who definitely knows his baseball stock.

Head scratcher: http://cgi.ebay.com/Greatest-Game-Ever-Played-by-Jerry-Izenberg-Mets-Astros_W0QQitemZ8384949290QQcategoryZ377QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Wow: http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&st=sl&qi=b9q2D,cXTO2klj.ZX85vtigp2Uk_8948208019_1:5:25

[Guest KC]

Yeah, I forgot to say it yesterday but it's pricey on alibris.com too.

Well, I'll never pass a used book store without checking out the dusty sports
section. Not that I usually do lol.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Could also be that the publisher is no longer in operation (haven't checked) I'd wager that would lead to it being impossible to even be "reprinted" unless a Sport Classic or someone gets the rights to the original manuscript or whatever

[metirish]

A signed 1986 team jersey..bidding starts at $660







http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-1986-NY-METS-TEAM-SIGNED-WORLD-SERIES-JERSEY_W0QQitemZ8764624542QQcategoryZ27264QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[metirish]

For little wolf if it's a girl.....

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Every bride should wear something blue (and orange)

[Zvon]

="metirish"]A signed 1986 team jersey..bidding starts at $660

This would be well worth it I think. Thats smart lookin.

I got this LIFE mag and had it signed by all the 69 Mets
cept Seaver and Ryan who didnt make the show.
(I do have a bat signed by just them alone.)


How much is something like that worth?
Would anyone know?
of course to me, its priceless.

[metirish]

Keep it, maybe and I have no idea you get $1000, so what?,that you would spend the mag you will have forever.

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: Keep it, maybe and I have no idea you get $1000, so what?,that you would spend the mag you will have forever.

I cant see me ever selling it or any of my Met stuff.
Thats one of my problems.
I dont sell stuff.
Im a pack rat.

[Zvon]

Kranepool started signing the sweet spot there, that I was reserving for Seaver and Ryan. My brother stopped him. Thats another one of those funny Met stories of mine,lol.

[Zvon]

I pretty much gave up on getting the two to sign that mag(tho i still would like to).
I figure this completes the collection.

[Elster88]

Jackie Robinson jersey.......signed by Puff Daddy.

$500 opening price. 0 bids thus far.

[metirish]

You mean Diddy of course, who the hell would want that,although the money goes to a good cause.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bathe your baby in an inflateable Shea!



Or send your precious out in public with an "I love the Expos Nats, therefore I pee on the Mets" tee-shirt!



No wonder Bill Watterson keeps a low profile.

Correspond with your friends with these uncut postcards from 1984!



Of course, Gary Carter's presence indicates that these are not from 1984 at all.

[seawolf17]

I can't tell you how many times I've really wanted to send an Ed Lynch postcard to someone, but I just couldn't find one.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You can virtually knock Royal Crown Cola out of the market place, but you can't knock the '86 Mets off their cans.

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On "Super Sale"! Only two dollars each!

[Guest cooby]

I have one of the 108 Wins! RC Cola Cans from 1986.

[Guest Edgy DC]

"God, I need a butt. You got a light? Thanks... Hey, holy shit! The
1971 Giants are in town!"


"Original popcorn box? Check. Early evil-looking Mr. Met
bobblehead? Check. A ton of smoking paraphanelia? Oh,
yeah. Radar gun? You better bel... Radar gun?"

[Guest Edgy DC]

Merry Christmas.

Love,

Casey

[Guest cooby]

Why would anyone sell that?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm swinging a little toward caveat emptor on that, but the validity of the envelope/stamp/postmark should be the athenticator.

One and two more Casey Christmas cards.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nothing says all is well in Metsville like a Wilbur Huckle pin:



And nothing says all is ill like a sucky script-free knockoff seventies patch that replaces the bridge with a silhouette of a second skyline.



A free lesson --- it ain't necessarily vintage if it sucked when it was new.

For more discerning customers, I offer this 1968 Oldtimers Day watch:



I just dropped some serious quid on that 1986 DVD. Buyer's remorse has crept up to my shins and will soon consume my entire being.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oh, and that huge lot of Metshit going back to 1962 didn't meet the reserve price of 10 Gs.

Sucka.