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Hank
Aaron
Home Run 715 Display |
| Hank
Aaron not only raised the bar for home runs with his 755 career
roundtrippers, but he also established 12 major league career
records, including most games, at-bats, total bases and RBI's.
He also appeared in a record 24 All-Star Games. But he definitely
earned the nickname "Hammerin' Hank" Aaron for his propensity
to hit HRs. And his most famous home run was #715, the blast that
surpassed Babe Ruth as Major League Baseball's All-Time Career
Home Run Leader (since surpassed by Barry Bonds). No true baseball
fan will ever forget the night of April 8, 1974 when Aaron hit
his record blast off the Dodgers' Al Downing at Atlanta's Fulton
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Yogi
Berra w/ Jackie Robinson
He was Out! |
| This
classic collectible captures what many baseball historians consider
the most famous theft of home plate ever. In the 1955 World
Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers, the Yankees won
the first game 6-5 before losing the series to the Dodgers.
In a controversial play during the 8th inning of that game,
Jackie Robinson stole home to bring the Dodgers within a run.
Films of this famous steal are inconclusive, but to this day
Yogi is convinced that Jackie was out. |
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Carlton
Fisk
World Series Game 6 Homerun |
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A Gold Glove winner and three-time Silver Slugger Award winner,
Carlton's most memorable moment came in Game Six of the 1975 World
Series. This photograph, taken moments after that historic HR
is one of the most famous in Red Sox, if not baseball, history.
It shows Carlton waving this 12th inning World Series blast fair.
And fair it was, hitting Fenway's left field foul pole, giving
the Sox a 7-6 win over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 6 of the '75
Series. |
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Kirk
Gibson
1988 World Series Home Run |
| Joining
the Dodgers as a free agent in 1988, Kirk Gibson's intensity
spurred the team to a World Championship highlighted by his
fabled Hollywood-like game-winning home run in the Series opener.
The National League MVP that year, Kurt was kept out of the
lineup by a leg injury. But with two outs in the bottom of the
ninth, Mike Davis on base, and the Dodgers down 4-3, Kirk stepped
to the plate as a pinch-hitter. Visibly wincing on each swing,
he fouled off four pitches before he hit a slider into the right
field stands off the A's HOF relief ace Dennis
Eckersley.
Photographs of Kirk pumping his fists and limping round the
bases, forever immortalized Kirk in baseball history.
Amazingly, it was Kirk's only at-bat in the Series but it was
enough to inspire the Dodgers to a five game Series victory
over the heavily favored Athletics. And Sports Gallery offers
two unique displays of this immortal baseball moment. Trust
us, there will also be some Dodgers fans at your fundraiser.
This is the perfect item for them! |
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Willie
Mays
The Catch Display w/ Replica Ticket |
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called him the "Say Hey Kid"
when he was in his prime, but now many people regard him as probably
the best all around baseball player in the history of the game.
And over
50 years ago this Hall of Famer made "The
Catch. "
It came in New York's Polo Grounds in the first game of the 1954
World Series. With the score tied late in the game,
Indians first baseman Vic Wertz clubbed a long drive to deep centerfield
at the Polo Grounds. At the crack of the bat, Mays turned his
back to the plate, raced for the outfield wall, glanced up at
the last minute, and pulled the ball in over his shoulder. The
play killed the Indians' threat and the Giants went on to win
the game and sweep the Series, the last Giants' World Series victory.
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Matt
Cain
First Perfect Game in Giants Franchise
History |
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The
San Francisco Giants latest "Where
were you when...?" moment, this time the Franchise's
first ever perfect game. Not San Francisco Giants' First...the
FRANCHISE'S First....established in 1883! And only the 22nd perfect
game in MLB History...that's 143 seasons! With "The Horse"
(and 2012 All-Star), Matt Cain, on the mound, Giants fans were
treated to a game no one will ever forget. The date was June 13,
2012 and Matt Cain threw perhaps the most dominating performance
in Giants history, striking out 14 (check out the "K's"
in the photo!) and allowing no base runners. 27 up and 27 down,
with many memorable plays in between including Melky Cabrera and
Gregor Blanco's amazing outfield catches, several 3-2 counts,
and Joaquin Arias' heart stopping final out at 3rd (a position
he had never played until this season!). The Giants won 10-0 (Perfect
10! Get it?!), but for once the win was secondary, it was
the perfect No-No on a perfect night at AT&T. |
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Bobby
Thomson/Ralph Branca
Shot Heard 'Round the World "Celebration"
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| “There's
a long drive... it's gonna be, I believe...
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!
Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck
of the left-field stands!
On October 3, 1951 during the ninth inning of Game 3 of a three-game
playoff between the NY Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers for the
NL pennant, Bobby Thomson came to bat with one out. Facing Dodgers
pitcher Ralph Branca he connected on the second pitch to smash
the ball down the left field line just above the 315-foot sign
and landed five rows deep in the stands. Thomson's "Shot
Heard Round the World" gave the Giants a 5-4 victory
over their biggest rival and a trip to the World Series.
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Dwight
Clark
"The Catch" |
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On January 11, 1982, against the Dallas Cowboys, the San Francisco
49ers were trailing 27-21 in the final minute of play of the
NFC Championship Game. Then Receiver Dwight Clark made a leaping
catch of a desperation pass from quarterback Joe Montana in
the back of the end zone and everything changed. The 49ers went
on to a 28-27 victory and advanced to the Super Bowl, the beginning
of their "Team of the Decade"
dominance. And that play- "The
Catch" - became one of the most famous in the history
in the NFL...definitely in the history of the San Francisco
49ers.
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Santonio
Holmes
Super Bowl XLIII "The
Catch" |
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Bowl XLIII, played on February 1, 2009 at Raymond James Stadium
in Tampa, pitted the AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the
NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals. Pittsburgh jumped to a 17–7
lead at half-time, However, trailing 20–7 at the start of
the fourth quarter, Arizona scored 16 unanswered points, to take
the lead with 2:37 remaining in the game. But the Steelers answered
by marching 78-yards to score on wide receiver Santonio Holmes'
spectacular 6-yard game-winning touchdown catch with 35 seconds
left, giving the Steelers their record-breaking sixth Super Bowl
crown. |
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Howie
Long (w/ Joe Montana)
"The First Sack" |
| Fast,
strong, and explosive off the ball, Howie Long was the second-round
pick of the Raiders our of Villanova in the 1981 NFL Draft. During
his 13-year career, Long, a member of the NFL’s All-Decade
team of the 1980s, recorded 84 career sacks (plus 7.5 sacks in
1981 before the sack was an official NFL statistic). And Howie
Long's first sack of his Hall of Fame career couldn't have been
any more memorable. Two legendary players who would both join
the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2000, first
met on the playing field. A meeting Joe Montana would just as
soon forget, Howie recorded his first of his 91.5 career sacks
against the 49ers and Joe. Howie would go on to be an eight-time
Pro Bowl player with the Raiders. Joe, of course, would go on
to win nine divisional titles and four Super Bowls with the 49ers.
But on this play, Howie and the Raiders, were the victors over
their cross-bay rivals. Nice way to start a HOF career... |
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Ronnie
Lott new!
Super Bowl Goal Line Stand |
| “He’s
like a middle linebacker playing safety,” Hall of
Fame coach Tom Landry once remarked. “He’s
devastating. He may dominate the secondary better than anyone
I’ve seen.” Apparently the NFL agreed naming
Ronnie Lott to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary Team and inducting
him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And in his first NFL season,
Lott led a young secondary that helped bring the San Francisco
its first Championship - Super Bowl XVI. This beauty celebrates
perhaps the most memorable moment from that game, the "Goal
Line Stand." Simply a great moment from one of football's
All-Time Greats. A "Can't Miss"
49ers collectible! |
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Y.A.
Tittle
Agony of Defeat |
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Y.A. Tittle played 17 illustrious years in the AAFC and NFL.
He was an All-Pro 4 times and the League MVP twice - once with
San Francisco (1957) and once with the NY Giants (1962). Tittle
passed for 28,339 career yards and was inducted into the Football
Hall of Fame in 1971. But what Y.A. is possibly most famous
for is this single photograph. Taken late in his career on a
Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh in 1964, this much-discussed
photo captures Tittle moments after taking a hard hit by the
Steelers John Baker that left him with a bloodied head and broken
ribs. Distraught after throwing a key interception, this classic
photograph is considered by most sports enthusiasts as the quintessential
portrait of "The Agony of Defeat."
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