I've crossed one off my collecting bucket-list!

Even though Connie Mack Stadium was long gone by the time I was born, my dad's stories about going there and watching the teams of the 1960s fed my fascination about the old park. It has always been a goal of mine to one day have a seat from it in my collection. And, now thanks to Wheatland Auction Services (their August online auction), I finally got the opportunity I had been waiting for...

Originating from the collection of an old-time Phillies collector, this single, double-ribbon seat dates back to the stadium's opening in 1909. Story goes that he went to the stadium sometime in the early 1970s, after the Phillies had moved to Veterans Stadium and removed several seats, and put them in storage. His collection, which included two sets of two (joined) seats and this single seat, has sat in storage since the late 1970s. You know what they say about one man's trash...