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[click
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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
County Stadium. |
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[click
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Berra w/ Jackie Robinson
He was Out! |
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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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[click
on image to learn more] | 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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[click
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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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[click
on image to learn more] | Willie
Mays
The Catch Display w/ Replica Ticket |
| They
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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| Jonathan
Sanchez
No-Hitter
@ AT&T |
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It might be one of the most unlikeliest no-hitters this side of Don Larsen's World
Series Perfect Game. Smart money would have bet on just about anyone on the Giants
staff other than left-hander Jonathan Sanchez to throw San Franciscos' first no-hitter
since John "The Count" Montefusco
did it in 1976. Tim Lincecum? Matt Cain? Randy Johnson? Wrong. It was Sanchez
that
struck out 11 and nearly had a perfect game in the Giants' 8-0 victory against
the Padres at AT&T. |
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[click
on image to learn more] | 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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[click
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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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 [click
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Roger
Craig
Super Bowl XIX 3-TD's |
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Played
at Stanford Stadum on January 20, 1985, Super Bowl XIX was hyped as the battle
between two great QBs, Miami's Dan Marino and San Francisco's Joe Montana - and
indeed it was the first Super Bowl in which both starting quarterbacks threw for
over 300 yards. But the 49ers would end up taking the game in dominating fashion
38-16 thanks in large part to Roger Craig's 135 total yards and three touchdowns,
making Roger the first player ever to score three TDs in a Super Bowl. |
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[click
on image to learn more] | Santonio
Holmes
Super Bowl XLIII "The Catch" |
| Super
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 new!
HOF 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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[click
on images to learn more] | 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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