This special collection of Negro Leagues Baseball Memorabilia is part of the program’s private collection. Each treasured piece represents a special time and place in an amazing journey that borne the Legends of the Negro Leagues Program. Baseball in Living Color (BLC) is proud to present this memorabilia in cooperation with the participating Negro Leagues Veterans that appear within the program.

We now invite you to join us as we launch this unique effort to generate funds for these historical sports legends. Each piece of this Premier Autographed Collection will be sold to the highest bidder! If you are not the top bidder on any auctioned piece do not fret… We have put together 500 sets of personally autographed* trading cards and will be making them available for purchase in the coming months. For information on how to reserve your set today Click Here!

Baseball Bat Combo(TF3) (020202)
Personally Autographed by 36 NLB Living Legends  

This bat accompanied the Signature Series Trading Card Autograph Tour in February 2002. The trading cards had been digitally mastered during the 16 months preceding there manufacture in December of 2001. The finished product was received in January of 2002 and was immediately broken down and packaged for the autograph tour that soon followed. This bat was personally autographed by the men the same day they autographed their trading cards.

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The Autographs that grace the face of this awesome bat include: Juan Armenteros, Lyman Bostock, Cleophus Brown, Sidney Bunch, Paul Casanova, Jim Colzie, Clifford DuBose, Henry Elmore, Louis Gillis, Raymond Haggins, Donnie Harris, Francisco Herrera, Carl Holden, Curtis Johnson, Willie Lee, Larry LeGrande, Carl Long, Frank Marsh, Butch McCord, Jessie Mitchell, Bob Mitchell, Willie Patterson, William Powell, Laymon Ramsey, Ulysses Redd, Eugene Scruggs, Pedro Sierra, Herb Simpson, Frank Thompson, Sam Thompson, Eli Williams, Eugene Williams, Willie Williams, Archie Young, Willie Young, and Jim Zapp.

An un-cut press sheet with foil stamped signatures
(Personally Autographed by Pedro Sierra)

The remaining press sheets were carted to another press where they were stamped revealing our NLB Living Legends signatures in black foil. As this process came to a conclusion we pulled an additional 1000 sheets. These full size press sheets display all of the cards with black foil signatures stamped on them and the calibration color bars.

Congressional Resolution

This is an original copy of the Congressional Resolution that accompanied a celebration at the US Capital Building on September 18 th 2002.

 

Premier Autographed Collection

This special collection of Negro Leagues Baseball Memorabilia is part of the program’s private collection. Each treasured piece represents a special time and place in an amazing journey that borne the Legends of the Negro Leagues Program. Baseball in Living Color (BLC) is proud to present this memorabilia in cooperation with the participating Negro Leagues Veterans that appear within the program.

We now invite you to join us as we launch this unique effort to generate funds for these historical sports legends. Each piece of this Premier Autographed Collection will be sold to the highest bidder! If you are not the top bidder on any auctioned piece do not fret… We have put together 500 sets of personally autographed* trading cards and will be making them available for purchase in the coming months. For information on how to reserve your set today Click Here!

Custom Boxed Trading Card Set – 1 each
Personally Autographed by 53 NLB Living Legends

This special box has been pulled from the Program’s Private Collection and will be sold to the highest bidder in our special auction. It was designed by our Baseball in Living Color GM and was built by custom cabinetmaker John Olson using a combination of Brazilian Leopard wood, White Ash and genuine leather. The standard Signature Series 500 CLUB boxed sets will be packaged in a similar box by design; professionally crafted using quality materials (NOTE: Boxes will most likely NOT be constructed of wood).

                               
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Autographed Trading Cards: Each trading card was merely a digitally file rendered in the months leading up to Late October 2001. In Early November the files were in route to PBM Graphics in Durham, North Carolina to be transformed. The resulting trading card product was delivered to our office in early January of 2002. A limited quantity of signature series product was carefully packed for travel in early February of 2002. And the journey continued… this time around the trading cards were personally autographed by the Living Legends. In several cases, the men whom we had planned to visit had already perished (in these cases a rubber stamp was created and the signature was manually applied). In total, the trading card portion of the autographed memorabilia consists of more than 30,000 personally autographed trading cards (currently grouped and presented in 500 collector sets).

 

In the early months of 2002, we worked alongside the office members of Congressman J. C. Watts to bring to the floor of the U.S. Capitol, a resolution that honored Negro Leagues Baseball veterans and the great history that they made. Later that very year, September 18 of 2002, many of our NLB Living Legends were joined in our nations capitol by special guests including Congressman J. C. Watts, Senator Rick Santorum, Senator Barbara Mikulsky, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Mr. Willie Mays, Mr. Blair Underwood, M.C. Hammer, and the 13 th Librarian of Congress Mr. James Billington to be personally honored for their part in the Leagues historical contribution to our great nation.

An un-cut press sheet with foil stamped signatures
(Personally Autographed by Pedro Sierra)

The remaining press sheets were carted to another press where they were stamped revealing our NLB Living Legends signatures in black foil. As this process came to a conclusion we pulled an additional 1000 sheets. These full size press sheets display all of the cards with black foil signatures stamped on them and the calibration color bars.

Congressional Resolution

This is an original copy of the Congressional Resolution that accompanied a celebration at the US Capital Building on September 18 th 2002.