Sports Immortals Collection
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| Sports Immortals Collection | |
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| Founder | Joel Platt |
| Website | www.sportsimmortals.com |
The Sports Immortals Collection is the largest private collection of sports memorabilia on all sports.[citation needed] The collection was curated by American real estate developer Joel Platt. [1] [2]
History[edit]
The collection resulted from Joel Platt being injured in a gasoline explosion at the age of four. During his recovery in the hospital his parents started buying him baseball cards. Platt claims to have had a dream that Babe Ruth visited him at bedside and told him not to give up on his recovery and that one day he could be a major league baseball player or build a museum to honor all of the sports greats.[3][4] From an early age Joel set out to curate mementos from sports legends starting with his first trip at the age of sixteen to visit Mrs. Honus Wagner who presented him with a bronze of Honus Wagner's hands as well as signed baseball and other mementos. Over a sixty year period Joel met numerous sports legends such as Muhammad Ali, Roberto Clemente, Jesse Owens, among others to curate items for his Sports Immortals Collection[5] [4] Between 1960 and 1985 Platt purchased eight of the largest sports collections at the time to be added to the Sports Immortals Collection.[6][4]
Collection[edit]
The Sports Immortals Collection is comprised of game-worn uniforms, autographed balls, cards, bats, caps, helmets, shoes, hockey sticks, skates, pucks, boxing gloves, robes, trunks, championship belts, tennis racquets, golf clubs, stadium seats, tickets, pennants, posters, saddles, boots and racing tires as well as other miscellaneous sports related items.[6][4]
Notable Items[edit]
- Muhammad Ali's 1960 Olympics USA Sweater
- The "Death Ball" that killed baseball player Ray Chapman
- Jim Thorpe's Carlisle Indians Football Jersey
- Satchel Paige's Touring All Star Baseball Uniform
- Lou Gehrig's 1927 Baseball Glove
- Honus Wagner T206 Baseball Card[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2017-05-24/a-1-million-piece-250-million-sports-collection-is-up-for-auction
- ↑ "Sports Immortals Collection to be Featured on Network TV". April 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Man turns $100M sports memorabilia collection into new stock market". New York Post. 2021-02-20. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Casey, Tim. "Famed Sports Collector Joel Platt Partners With Collectable, Offering Fans A Piece Of His Rare Memorabilia". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ↑ "Sports Immortals: The Single Greatest Memorabilia Collection On The Planet // ONE37pm". www.one37pm.com.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Joel Platt and his Dream Collection". Intelligent Collector. December 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Sports Immortals Collection to be Featured on Network TV". April 10, 2012.
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