Jim Corbett signed ball, 500 HR Club signed banjo formerly owned by Babe Ruth among the hihglights.

David Hunt is reluctant to mention the “H” word. Even when you are in the auction business, and trying your best to talk up what is one of the best sales of your own career, and potentially one of the best ever held, period, you have to be careful about getting carried away and throwing around the “H” word.

The current 19thCenturyOnly auction is one of the company’s best auctions to date. Ending July 18. The 391-lot lineup includes one of the largest graded Old Judge offerings seen in the market in some time.

This includes 100 graded Old Judge cards, many of which are Hall of Famers; premium Old Judge’s, such as Maroons; and two-player cards.

Premier Auctions, the Arizona-based auction house that is predominately recognized for selling signed pieces, is selling one of the largest collections of game-used hockey sticks and equipment that has been offered to the public in years.

The collection is one which has spawned from a deep and passionate love of the game with not one piece from this collection having ever been purchased from the secondary market.

Averaging more $2 million per sale over its last three auctions, Huggins and Scott has completed preparations for its upcoming worldwide sports memorabilia catalog auction that will begin June 22.

The Maryland-based company, which last year sold a single-signed Christy Mathewson baseball for $161,000 and a rare Joe Jackson-Buck Weaver autographed baseball for $69,000, will offer 1,300 consigned lots of vintage and modern sports cards and memorabilia in a two-day sale, with bidding conducted by phone and on the Internet via the company’s website.

Averaging more $2 million per sale over its last three auctions, Huggins and Scott has completed preparations for its upcoming worldwide sports memorabilia catalog auction that will begin June 22.

The Maryland-based company, which last year sold a single-signed Christy Mathewson baseball for $161,000 and a rare Joe Jackson-Buck Weaver autographed baseball for $69,000, will offer 1,300 consigned lots of vintage and modern sports cards and memorabilia in a two-day sale, with bidding conducted by phone and on the Internet via the company’s website.

Memory Lane’s Spring Fever Rarities auction ends May 17, and it’s loaded with high-grade, low-population report singles that have almost become the company’s slogan.

But that’s definitely not all Memory Lane offers.

Leading the way is a single-signed Babe Ruth ball. The ball comes from Dr. Carvel Lincoln and was acquired in August 1947 by the 16-year-old pitcher as a member of his local American Legion Baseball team. After more than 60 years of storage in the original box, the ball hits the auction world for the first time. It’s been graded PSA/DNA 8. Collectors can visit
www.memorylaneinc.com to hear the complete story in more detail. The Ruth ball carries a minimum bid of $10,000.

Grey Flannel Auctions, known for bringing to auction some of the best game-worn jerseys on the market, will conduct an absentee/Internet auction closing May 14 that features 161 sports-related premier lots.
The lot expected to bring the most attention is the same uniform that made the basketball world stand up in 1976.

In January of that year, Julius “Dr. J” Erving brought the house down in the first-ever halftime slam dunk contest during the 1976 ABA All-Star Game. In that competition, Dr. J. – then with the New York Nets and the ABA’s top scorer – and Denver Nuggets rookie David Thompson put on a performance of a lifetime. Together with three other top dunkers, Erving and Thompson pulled out all the stops to wow the stunned crowd with their competitive jams and slams. Without a lot of fanfare, Erving was declared the contest’s winner.

More than 200 lots of game-used jerseys, hats, helmets, bats and other items are featured in Game Used Universe’s (GUU) Spring 2008 auction. Specializing in game-used memorabilia, GUU developed its “Next Generation Auction” format, which elevates the authentication process to a new standard while virtually eliminating the possibility of a non-authentic item reaching the collector.

Featured in GUU’s current auction, which closes on May 8, 2008, is a wide variety of unique and high-quality game-used memorabilia from every sport. Among the items included is a side-written, vault marked Lou Gehrig bat from 1931, which was manufactured to Gehrig’s specifications, used and approved by him and ultimately used as the template from which to manufacture the majority of his bats for the remainder of his career.

Heritage Auction Galleries’ sports collectibles division will present an array of vintage sports memorabilia and trading cards in its upcoming May 2-3 Signature Auction to be held in Dallas.

“This will certainly be the ‘can’t miss’ auction of the season for the serious card collector,” said Chris Ivy, director of Heritage Auction Galleries’ Sports Collectibles division. “From the rarest and most coveted tobacco cards to outrageously high-grade bubble gum sets, there is something to excite even the most seasoned hobbyist.”