Lelands Offering Ryan Mets Flannel

Content Published Originally by Sports Collectors Daily on Friday, June 3, 2011.

Lelands.com is known for featuring unique, hard to find memorabilia in its auctions. The current auction, ending June 24, is no exception.

Highlighted items include:

• 1970 Nolan Ryan game worn New York Mets road jersey, one of only a few Ryan flannel jerseys known to exist

• All-original home Los Angeles Dodgers jersey from fireballer Don Drysdale’s last season. This could very well be his last home Dodgers jersey.

• A 1940s bottle of California Sauterne wine from Joe DiMaggio’s private stock.

• Bat and baseball from Pete Rose’s second to last hit
• Game worn pinstriped home Harmon Killebrew jersey
• Joe Gilliam’s Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl X Championship Ring from the collection of Mark Mausner, one of the top plastic surgeons in the world. Other highlights from the Mausner Collection include world class boxing memorabilia such as:
  • 1940’s Jake LaMotta Fight Worn “Leopard Skin” Robe
  • 2000 Marcus Nash Baltimore Ravens Championship Ring
  • 1972 Muhammad Ali vs. Mac Foster On Site Fight Poster
  • 1885 John L. Sullivan Large Mounted Photograph

The collection can be viewed here.

• Part two of The Sal LaRocca Collection. LaRocca has been featured on ESPN and his collection, called “hands down the finest Brooklyn Dodgers collection in the world” was the subject of the book “The Dodgers: Memories and Memorabilia from Brooklyn to L.A.”

Highlights of the LaRocca collection  include:

• 1958 To 2005 Complete Run of LA Dodgers Team Signed Baseballs
• 1939-40 Leo Durocher Game Worn Uniform
• Circa 1955 Gil Hodges Game Worn Jacket
• 1946 Montreal Royals Team Signed Baseball with Jackie Robinson

Interested bidders must register for the auction by Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:00PM EST, by filling out the online registration form or calling 631-244-0077 during normal business hours. Initial bids must be submitted by 9 PM on June 24, after registering. The auction continues until bidding has ceased for at least 10 minutes.