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Memorabilia.

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Aug 19, 2016 11:35 am

Anyone got any cricket related mementoes? Autographs, stumps, statues? Stuff acquired on tour and which reminds you of the trip? Feel free to open up to other sports and beyond.

What sticks in my mind is being told to clear off by Dickie Bird when I asked for his autograph. If you go to a match now, you can't stop him from giving you his autograph.
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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby Gingerfinch » Fri Aug 19, 2016 11:52 am

Good old Dickie!

I cannot remember ever getting an autograph of any sportsman? Sorry!
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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby hopeforthebest » Fri Aug 19, 2016 11:55 am

I've never asked for autograph in my life and I think my only item of Memorabillia I have is the ticket stub of the final rugby game of the 1962-63 Lions tour of South Africa, played at the Newlands in Cape Town.

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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby Aidan11 » Fri Aug 19, 2016 12:41 pm

I keep all my match programmes and scorecards.

Alos have a couple of Axa Sunday League badges when they issued them about 20 years ago.

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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby hopeforthebest » Fri Aug 19, 2016 1:43 pm

Aidan11 wrote:I keep all my match programmes and scorecards.

Alos have a couple of Axa Sunday League badges when they issued them about 20 years ago.

Match reports, yearbooks, autographs. Too many to list.


With your extensive vinyl record collection I'm surprised you've room for that lot.
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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby Aidan11 » Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:11 pm

hopeforthebest wrote:
Aidan11 wrote:I keep all my match programmes and scorecards.

Alos have a couple of Axa Sunday League badges when they issued them about 20 years ago.

Match reports, yearbooks, autographs. Too many to list.


With your extensive vinyl record collection I'm surprised you've room for that lot.



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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Fri Aug 19, 2016 9:22 pm

Presumably fans take selfies of themselves with cricketers now, for their mementoes.

In India, a boy of about 14 asked for my autograph, as a genuine travelling England supporter. After refusing a dozen times, I said yes eventually, I think.
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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby Aidan11 » Fri Aug 19, 2016 10:02 pm

I don't take selfies.

Seems like a youngster's thing to me.
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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby yuppie » Sat Aug 20, 2016 10:03 am

I had a bat signed by Sir Viv. Came down as patron for the channel 4 street cricket program in the late 90's. He was happy to sign things and mingle with the coaches.

Donated the bat to a cancer charity auction at Taunton Hospital a few years later. Not sure it raised more than £100.

I don't get the selfie thing, but i'm sure that more a generational thing
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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby braveneutral » Sat Aug 20, 2016 1:14 pm

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Re: Memorabilia.

Postby Arthur Crabtree » Sat Aug 20, 2016 3:43 pm

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