Capital City Sports Report

Sports Memorabilia

Everybody wants an autographed shirt or ball.Those are boring.

Here are five sports-related items I’d love to have for my collection.

5) A rainbow-colored Afro – For those of us in our late thirties, you can’t help but remember the guy who would stand in the end zone behind the goal posts on extra points and directly in the line of sight of the cameras holding the John 3:16 signs. The sign was his message, but what always caught your attention was his rainbow-colored Afro wig. I think it’d be worth something to own one of those wigs. Last I heard it would probably be difficult to get a wig from Rollen Stewart, aka “Rock ‘n Rollen” or “Rainbow Man.” That’s because he is currently serving out a life sentence in jail on kidnapping charges.

4) Joe Niekro’s fingernail file – Niekro was one of the knuckleball-throwing brothers who got caught cheating back in the 1980s using a fingernail file. His humorous explanation for having the file-he was filing his nails in the dugout. What made it even better was how he reached into his back pocket and tried to casually dispose of the file when the umpires questioned him and while the cameras caught it from multiple angles. Hilarious.

3) Robin Ventura blood-stained towel – It was one of the most unbelievable moments in sports history when Robin Ventura challenged a much older Nolan Ryan and then proceeded to thoroughly get his butt whipped. There was blood on Ventura’s lip. Some of it was left on Nolan Ryan’s jersey following the one-sided confrontation. There had to be a towel.

2) Jose Canseco autographed hardhat – Canseco is known for a lot of things including baseball. One of the funniest moments in my baseball-watching days, albeit painful as a Texas Rangers fan, was when he chased down a hard-hit deep fly ball, lifted his glove to field the ball at the wall, only to totally miss the ball with his glove and have the ball hit off his head and bounce over the fence for a home run. Painfully funny.

1) Morganna The Kissing Bandit t-shirt – Another blast from the past. Morganna was the large-chested blonde who randomly ran out on the field at various sporting events and kissed a player on the cheek. To have one of those shirts would be…well, huge.

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