10Q
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08-11-14 09:18 PM - Post#172112
A friend of mine has a ticket to the 1979 Final Four and it's signed by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. I have a nice image of it on my computer. The ticket price was $15. I wonder what that ticket would bring at auction.
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SteveChop
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08-12-14 10:46 AM - Post#172122
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More than $15 if s/he can get it authenticated in some fashion - from what I have read, it is helpful to have a written statement as to how their signatures were acquired (better if this is done contemporaneously with the signing)
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penn64
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Re: 1979
08-12-14 02:12 PM - Post#172128
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Your note made me search my "treasures". Found my East Regional Final ticket, row D, seat 12. I remember we were right behind the Penn bench. ticket price $10. Unfortunately no autographs, just a scribble - Penn 64 St Johns 62.
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palestra38
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Re: 1979
08-12-14 02:40 PM - Post#172129
In response to penn64
I remember wandering all over the building yelling--only about 6000 there---and then roaring all over the Triad in a Jeep with a big sign--"Penn, ACC Champs."
And to think that's all we have to talk about these days.
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coins
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Re: 1979
08-12-14 03:20 PM - Post#172130
In response to palestra38
Remember those days well. Didn't know how good we were and set my wedding date for March 24, 1979. Watched the MSU game, put on a tux and got married.
(Missed a lot of wedding planning to watch the games the previous weekends).
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10Q
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08-12-14 03:30 PM - Post#172131
In response to coins
My friend got the autographs personally from Magic and Bird. He said they were both very nice. His wife's uncle is David Stern (yes that David Stern).
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SteveChop
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Re: 1979
08-12-14 10:18 PM - Post#172136
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And based on the results, I got married the next year on March 30, 1980 - in those years the tournament was over by then and that's why it was an acceptable date (i.e. in case we got to the Final Four again - alas!)
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Streamers
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Re: 1979
08-13-14 07:22 AM - Post#172141
In response to SteveChop
mine are framed with all my other notable ticket stubs and I promise not to put them on the market or change my avatar for that matter anytime soon.
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penn62
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08-15-14 03:50 PM - Post#172194
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An excellent way to have your ticket-signatures authenticated is to send it to PSA/DNA. They will authenticate for you (for a fee).
I have just sent them a "Mantle" baseball.
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penn nation
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1979
08-15-14 06:44 PM - Post#172195
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You mean not the David Stern that teaches Midrash at Penn? I took a few courses with him (Vayikra Rabbah) as an undergrad for my minor. He was just starting out then, but now is a big macher on campus. Turns out he went to my high school.
The "other" DS in the next town over from me, and plenty of folks at my shul have connections to him.
Edited by penn nation on 08-15-14 06:45 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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10Q
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08-17-14 06:42 AM - Post#172203
In response to penn nation
I don't think my friend plans to sell the ticket. In fact, I'm sure he won't. And since he personally got the ticket signed, it is self-authenticated.
By the way, I heard over Shabbos that Zack Rosen is now Shomer Shabbos. I am kvelling.
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penn nation
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08-17-14 07:51 AM - Post#172204
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By the way, I heard over Shabbos that Zack Rosen is now Shomer Shabbos. I am kvelling.
So it seems, indeed.
Zack on the road back
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10Q
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08-17-14 05:34 PM - Post#172208
In response to penn nation
The rabbi who lives behind my house spent a lot of time with Zack during his days at Penn, and it is not surprising that he has become observant.
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SteveChop
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08-17-14 05:54 PM - Post#172210
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Like Penn Nation, I'm delighted to hear that Zack has grown closer to his Jewish roots. That raises an interesting (perhaps) hypothetical question - given the Friday-Saturday scheduling, how would such a spiritual awakening have affected Zack's or might affect some future Ivy League player's participation in basketball? (Shades of Tamir Goodman and Maryland?)
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10Q
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08-17-14 06:26 PM - Post#172211
In response to SteveChop
There is no way a Shabbos observant player could thrive in the Ivies.
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penn nation
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08-17-14 07:10 PM - Post#172212
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I've commented on this before. Some of it depends on how one defines "Sabbath observant". There's no shortage of observant Jews who play sports recreationally after Sabbath services, while some other Jews would consider that unacceptable.
One issue to consider is that of the eruv, or not being allowed to carry within a public domain, or from a private to a public one, on the Sabbath. In the case of Penn, Columbia and probably other campuses, the arena and surrounding residential area are both contained within an eruv so that particular issue is thus not a factor.
The more serious issue revolves around Sabbath travel, since the Ivy games are Friday-Saturday. If there is a functioning eruv in that community for the Friday game (or even if not, and the individual simply walked to the arena with nothing in one's pockets), one could play on Friday night but then could not leave for the second game until around an hour after sundown on Saturday night. Depending on the start time of the Saturday game and the distance from the Friday game, one could conceivably make a portion of that second game (say, on a Yale-Brown road trip...but certainly not on a Columbia-Cornell or Harvard-Dartmouth trip).
So the bottom line is that a decent chunk of the Ivy road games would be missed. Unless, of course, one played for Harvard/Dartmouth, where a Penn/Princeton and Yale-Brown trip are both conceivable from this perspective (as if Tommy A. needed any other advantages...God help us if he starts hanging out at the local yeshiva at the same time that Zack Rosen's shiur ends).
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10Q
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08-17-14 07:57 PM - Post#172213
In response to penn nation
May all of Harvard's best players convert and become Shomer Shabbos, speedily and in our days.
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Old Bear
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08-17-14 08:04 PM - Post#172214
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Is there a try out?
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penn nation
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08-17-14 08:13 PM - Post#172216
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Even in my day, there was a guy at Penn (a rabbi's son) who was on the Quaker lightweight football team. He once walked something like 10 miles to the game he was playing one Saturday.
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10Q
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08-17-14 08:21 PM - Post#172217
In response to penn nation
Bet he got some Chai Fives.
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