Collecting Sports Memorabilia
A Great Recreation Hobby for Your Favorite Sports
Memorabilia
In this fast-paced, stressful age we live in, everyone needs a little recreation. Sports memorabilia collecting is a hobby that can
fill your spare minutes with interest and offer a diversion to the everyday grind. This takes many forms depending
on the person who is pursuing the hobby.
Many people choose to collect sport memorabilia and items from their favorite professional
teams, but others collect items related to golf, fishing, and other recreation sports. Collecting
memorabilia requires a certain amount of space, but collectors are
creative about finding ways to display their collectibles.
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Collecting posters from your favourite sport can
result in a
great poster collection that will yield good value in due
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Scrapbook
Collecting
If you have a favorite pro team or two there are many items you can collect
related to those teams. For instance, you can create scrapbooks in which you save clippings about exciting games,
favorite players, and special interviews. You can keep ticket stubs and photographs in your scrapbook,
too.
Other items, however, won't fit into a scrapbook, such as a game ball, team
jersey, or a team's annual yearbook. These items will need other storage. There are stands for special balls, and
jerseys look great hanging on a hanger on the wall.
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Scrapbooking is a popular form of sports collecting.
The items you can collect range from photos and news paper clippings, to actual large
sport posters or pamphlets of your favorite sports, teams, players, and major sporting
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Souvenir Sports
Collecting
You might like to collect souvenir items from all types of sports. Most
professional teams sell small metal pins with their insignia on them. Pin collecting is
a widely practiced hobby, and sports teams are one of the hottest types of collectible pins, as are those
commemorating the Olympics.
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Baseball is popular sport choice with collectors,
providing a great variety
of collectible items and memorabilia, which are also widely
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Another option for sports collecting is to collect antique sports equipment.
Vintage baseball gloves are an example of this type of collectible.
Sport Cards
Collecting
Baseball cards have long been a source of recreation. Sports collecting
enthusiasts have collected baseball cards, football cards, and basketball cards for many years, although baseball
cards were the first. This is such a popular hobby that some cards are worth a lot of money, such as a rookie card
of a player like Willie Mays, from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Another popular sport for collectors of sport
memorabilia and items
is of course football, which also offers a wide choice of items to
collect. |
Recreation Sport
Collecting
Other collectors like to accumulate things that illustrate their favourite
recreation sports. Collecting items
decorated with fish, horses, or golfers are examples of these types of collections.
For instance, if you enjoy hunting with dogs, you can decorate your home in a
hunting dog theme. There are throw pillows printed with handsome hunting dogs, as well as with the game they help
you find. You may find lamps that have a hunting dog as the base. You can even have curtains made from hunting dog
printed material!
The same can be done around the theme of golf, horseback riding, whether western
or eastern, bass fishing, sailboats, and other popular recreation sports. Collecting is a hobby that offers many
options!
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