It's been talked about in other threads, but the topic deserves its own thread.
Who collects swimming memorabilia? What's in your collection? Pictures? Autographs? Ribbons? Medals? Here is the place to talk about objects and artifacts you have that relate to the history of the sport of swimming.
OK, I'll start. Since I seem to have a 'bad girl' thing going with a surprise Eleanor Holm autograph, I thought an autographed copy of FHM with Amanda Beard (World's Sexiest Athlete cover) would be an essential. I saw one today on eBay and bought it for $10.49. In my lifetime, it may achieve an auction value greater than that. :cane:
I may have to bring a copy of the Amanda issue of Playboy to the Olympic Trials (in a plain brown wrapper, of course) and hunt her down for an autograph. For lack of a better description, signed copies of FHM and Playboy would make a nice pair.
:kiss1:
It's been talked about in other threads, but the topic deserves its own thread.
Who collects swimming memorabilia? What's in your collection? Pictures? Autographs? Ribbons? Medals? Here is the place to talk about objects and artifacts you have that relate to the history of the sport of swimming.
OK, I'll start. Since I seem to have a 'bad girl' thing going with a surprise Eleanor Holm autograph, I thought an autographed copy of FHM with Amanda Beard (World's Sexiest Athlete cover) would be an essential. I saw one today on eBay and bought it for $10.49. In my lifetime, it may achieve an auction value greater than that. :cane:
I may have to bring a copy of the Amanda issue of Playboy to the Olympic Trials (in a plain brown wrapper, of course) and hunt her down for an autograph. For lack of a better description, signed copies of FHM and Playboy would make a nice pair.
:kiss1:
Bill:
As you might know I am a big collector of Swimming Memorabilia. I used to get a lot of autographs but kind went into other areas of collecting. One of my prized autographs is getting a signiture, olympic trading card, and a picture of Dawn Fraser when she swam at the 1992 Master's Worlds in Indy. She knew and swam with a coach I had named Rex Aubrey, who was an NCAA Champion for Yale and swam in the 1956 Olympics and took 6th place in the 100 Meter Free for Australia. She was very friendly and nice. At that same meet I got a signiture from Kornelia Ender, who was swimming at the meet. I have many signitures from Rowdy Gaines on books he was in and gave him one of my extra books that he didn't have called Champions by Donald Chambliss because they refer to him a lot in the book. I have Don Schollander, Mark Spitz, Debbie Meyer, Steve Clark, Jim Montgomery, and Natalie Coughlin on books about them or they have been featured in. I have a couple of Michael Phelps signitures on programs but not on his two books and I hope to get those in the next year before the Omaha trials.
I have probably over 60 books on the history of the sport and that is where I learned a lot of the information that I contribute to here on this website. One area of collecting and I know maybe 8 other people like me in the world is collecting swimming on film. Since the VHS days and now the DVD days, I try to collect every major Swimming Championship I can. I trade with people in Europe and Australia. This is one area that I value because in other sports they show the old Championships but you never ever see swimming unless its an Olympic year and they might show clips here and there. On the NFL network and ESPN Classic, you can find almost every Super Bowl and NBA Championship game going back 50 years. I have never ever seen any swimming at all on the historical or sports networks.
For the past 7 out of 8 years, I bring the most important Championship of that year to the USAS Convention and show them in the master's hospitality suite for those that might have missed or just want to see the swims again. It has become a hit and I will keep doing it as long as the interest is there. Next year will be the 2008 Olympics and I plan to show those.
It's been talked about in other threads, but the topic deserves its own thread.
Who collects swimming memorabilia? What's in your collection? Pictures? Autographs? Ribbons? Medals? Here is the place to talk about objects and artifacts you have that relate to the history of the sport of swimming.
OK, I'll start. Since I seem to have a 'bad girl' thing going with a surprise Eleanor Holm autograph, I thought an autographed copy of FHM with Amanda Beard (World's Sexiest Athlete cover) would be an essential. I saw one today on eBay and bought it for $10.49. In my lifetime, it may achieve an auction value greater than that. :cane:
I may have to bring a copy of the Amanda issue of Playboy to the Olympic Trials (in a plain brown wrapper, of course) and hunt her down for an autograph. For lack of a better description, signed copies of FHM and Playboy would make a nice pair.
:kiss1:
Bill:
As you might know I am a big collector of Swimming Memorabilia. I used to get a lot of autographs but kind went into other areas of collecting. One of my prized autographs is getting a signiture, olympic trading card, and a picture of Dawn Fraser when she swam at the 1992 Master's Worlds in Indy. She knew and swam with a coach I had named Rex Aubrey, who was an NCAA Champion for Yale and swam in the 1956 Olympics and took 6th place in the 100 Meter Free for Australia. She was very friendly and nice. At that same meet I got a signiture from Kornelia Ender, who was swimming at the meet. I have many signitures from Rowdy Gaines on books he was in and gave him one of my extra books that he didn't have called Champions by Donald Chambliss because they refer to him a lot in the book. I have Don Schollander, Mark Spitz, Debbie Meyer, Steve Clark, Jim Montgomery, and Natalie Coughlin on books about them or they have been featured in. I have a couple of Michael Phelps signitures on programs but not on his two books and I hope to get those in the next year before the Omaha trials.
I have probably over 60 books on the history of the sport and that is where I learned a lot of the information that I contribute to here on this website. One area of collecting and I know maybe 8 other people like me in the world is collecting swimming on film. Since the VHS days and now the DVD days, I try to collect every major Swimming Championship I can. I trade with people in Europe and Australia. This is one area that I value because in other sports they show the old Championships but you never ever see swimming unless its an Olympic year and they might show clips here and there. On the NFL network and ESPN Classic, you can find almost every Super Bowl and NBA Championship game going back 50 years. I have never ever seen any swimming at all on the historical or sports networks.
For the past 7 out of 8 years, I bring the most important Championship of that year to the USAS Convention and show them in the master's hospitality suite for those that might have missed or just want to see the swims again. It has become a hit and I will keep doing it as long as the interest is there. Next year will be the 2008 Olympics and I plan to show those.
