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From baseball to the Olympics, this collections contains objects from the sporting world.

African American
All Americana
Baseball
Basketball
Civil RIghts
Football
Hockey
Hugh Hefner Collection
Islam
Japan
Japanese Games & Toys
LGBTQ Collection
Latin American Contemporary
Muhammad Ali
Oddities
Olympics
Tennis
Tombstone & Arizona Territory
World War II

Collection's Artworks

1940 Tokyo Olympics Sake Cup

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics, World War II
1908 Letter Regarding Three Baseball Teams

By Sports

Baseball
1903 Letter Regarding Cuban Baseball Fans

By Sports

Baseball
1904 Cuban Baseball Publication

By Sports

Baseball
Las Vegas Night Beat Magazine

By Collector's Favorites, Sports

Baseball, LGBTQ Collection
Gay World Series Poster

By Collector's Favorites, Sports

Baseball, LGBTQ Collection
California Legislative Assembly Resolution

By Sports

Football
George Saimes Denver Broncos Playbook

By Sports

Football
Mickey Mantle Signed Banner

By Sports

Baseball
Althea Gibson American Tennis Association Nationals Championship Trophy

By Sports, Americana

African American, Tennis
Hugh Hefner Spalding Tennis Racket

By Collector's Favorites, Sports

Hugh Hefner Collection, Oddities, Tennis
Red Grange Doll

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Young Lords – A Rifle, a Militant, a Casket.

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Basketball, Civil RIghts
Items from the Film The Jackie Robinson Story

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Baseball
1956 Bloom High School Yearbook

By Sports

Baseball, Basketball
1957 Bloom High School Yearbook

By Sports

Basketball
September 11, 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks Game Used Base

By Sports

Baseball
1970 Olga Korbut Medals Silver and Bronze

By Sports

Olympics
James Gandolfini Signed Photograph to Yogi Berra with Interesting Inscription

By Sports

Baseball
México Juega Futbol Americano – Illustrated Booklet

By Collector's Favorites, Sports

Football, Latin American Contemporary
German Sports Award

By Sports

Olympics
NSDAP Fighting Games Table Medal

By Sports

Olympics
Blut und Boten Table Medal

By Sports

Olympics
BDM Fencing Competition Award Certificate

By Sports

Olympics
Olympia Zeitung Newspaper

By Sports

Olympics
1972 Munich Olympics Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1976 Montreal Olympics Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics Medal

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Olympics
1964 Tokyo Olympics Medal

By Sports

Olympics
KGK Football

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Football, Japan
Daniel R. Topping’s Personal NEW YORK YANKEES YEARBOOKS

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Archive of Documents Related to the Sale of the Yankees to CBS

By Sports

Baseball
Collection of Personal Checks Signed by Dan Topping

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Dan Topping’s Personal Account Book

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Desk and Pictures at Topping and Webb’s Yankees Office at 57th and 5th Avenue

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Joe Montana Certificate of Honor

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Japanese Christmas Cards from Babe Ruth’s Family, Lou Gehrig and Earl Whitehill’s Family

By Sports

Baseball
Claire Ruth Handwritten Letter and Telegram

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Rocky Marciano vs. Muhammad Ali “The Super Fight” Multi-Signed Display

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Autograph Signing Contracts

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball, Football
Vince Lombardi Nestle Milk Cocoa Container

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Vince Lombardi’s Program from 1st Win as Green Bay Packers Head Coach

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Green Bay Packers vs. Baltimore Colts Program – Starr vs. Unitas

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Curly Lambeau “Yearbook” Journal

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
German Memorial Hall: The New Germany

By Collector's Favorites, Sports

Oddities, Olympics
“Baseball’s Beloved Bums” Brooklyn Dodgers Publication – With Jackie Robinson Insert

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Three Japanese Baseball Posters

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Japanese Baseball Team Poster

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
NFL Championship Green Bay Packers vs. New York Giants Program

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Vince Lombardi 1st Program as Green Bay Packers Head Coach – Regular Season

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Harlem Globetrotters Program – British Tour

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Basketball
World Series Mini Bat and Program

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Brooklyn Dodgers Full Size Pennant

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Bilder-Gruppe German Cigarettes Picture Packs – Featuring 1936 Olympics.

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball, Olympics
Knute Rockne Plaque

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Boston Red Sox vs. Washington Senators Program

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Children’s Ring Bat

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
1936 Berlin Olympics Participation Medal From the Mayor of NY

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Olympics
All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight Promotional Folder and Booklet

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) vs. Sonny Liston I & II Wire Photographs

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Angelo & Chris Dundee Ephemera

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
“The Super Fight” Film Reel and Ephemera

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali Vietnam War Protest Rally Poster

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Civil RIghts, Muhammad Ali
“I am the Greatest” Promotional Poster

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee & Rocky Marciano Broadside Segmen

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) Signed WBC Replica Championship Belt

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali Training Used Jump Rope

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Hospital Guestbook from Birth of Angelo Dundee’s Son Signed by Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Sonny Liston Mink Gloves Created to Promote First Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) Bout

By Collector's Favorites, Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali, Oddities
Cassius Clay/Sonny Liston Photograph

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Charlton Heston – Group of Sports Memorabilia

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball, Football
Althea Gibson Collection of Newspaper Articles, Letters

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Tennis
American Tennis Association Fourteenth National Championships-Official Bulletin

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Tennis
Vince Lombardi’s First Program as Green Bay Packers Head Coach – Preseason

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Green Bay Packers vs. Baltimore Colts Program

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Japanese Baseball Photograph of 1955 New York Yankees Tour of Japan

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Sports Illustrated Card Sheet Display

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Japanese Baseball American All Stars Tour of Japan Program and Magazine

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Japanese Baseball Magazine

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Japanese Baseball Magazine

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Japanese Baseball Kimono

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Blankets

By Sports

Baseball
Homma’s Baseball Cards

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Sports Sugoroku with Japanese Children Playing Baseball.

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Japanese Olympics Sports Karuta Set

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
1956 Melbourne Olympics Card Game

By Sports

Olympics
Japanese 1936 Olympics Photo Set

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
1936 Berlin Olympics Japanese Photo et

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
1936 Berlin Olympics Japanese Sugoroku Game

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
1936 Olympics Propaganda Japanese Kimono

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Berlin Summer Olympics Torch Lighting Bronze Medal

By Sports

Olympics
Japanese Board Game – Los Angeles Olympics

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
1928 Amsterdam Olympics New York Mayor’s Committee Presentational Medal

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Olympics
1896 Athens Summer Olympics Participation Medal

By Sports

Olympics
Julius Erving Ebony Magazine American Black Achievement Award

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Basketball
Toronto Maple Leafs Silver Presentational Tray

By Sports

Hockey
Display from the Set of Monday Night Football

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Green Bay Packers Team Members Appreciation Plaque Presented to Ray Nitschke

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
AFC Championship Game Presentational Tray

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
AFL Championship Game Presentational Tray

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
AFL Championship Game Silver Presentational Tray

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
New York Giants Team Signed Program

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings Game Ball Presented to Willie Davis

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Red Grange Sterling Doll Company Doll, With Pinback Button

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Morrill’s Football Nose Guard

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Football
Rodney Dangerfield and Robert Goulet Single Signed Baseballs

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Caribbean All-Star Team Plaque Presented to Gary Carter

By Collector's Favorites, Sports

Baseball, Latin American Contemporary
Monte Irvin Presentation Tray from The Monte Irvin Collection

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Bowie Kuhn Correspondence Archive

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Mort Cooper Most Valuable Player Award Plaque

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
New York Black Yankees Negro League Pennant

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
Babe Ruth Sterling Doll Company Doll

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball
1917 Honus Wagner Signed Land Purchase Agreement

By Collector's Favorites, Sports, Americana

All Americana, Baseball, Oddities
1904 Hartford (CT) Factory Base Ball League Championship Trophy

By Sports

Baseball
1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics Participation Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics Commemoration Pin

By Sports

Olympics
1906 Athens Intermediate Summer Olympics Participation Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exhibition Silver Award Medal

By Sports, Americana

All Americana, Olympics
1900 Paris Exposition Universelle Bronze Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1900 Paris Exposition Universelle Bronze Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1896 Athens Summer Olympics Participation Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1896 Athens Summer Olympics Participation Medal

By Sports

Olympics
1896 Athens Summer Olympics Commemoration Medal

By Sports

Olympics
Muhammad Ali Signed Islam Pamphlet

By Sports, Americana, Religious

African American, All Americana, Islam, Muhammad Ali
Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) vs. Sonny Liston I and II Wire Photographs

By Sports

Muhammad Ali
“The Super Fight” Film Reel and Ephemera

By Sports

Muhammad Ali
Rumble In The Jungle “20th of May Stadium” Blueprints

By Sports

Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali vs. Rocky Marciano “The Super Fight” Theater Standup Display

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Muhammad Ali
Yankee Stadium Renovation Correspondence

By Sports

Baseball
Graham County, Arizona Territory: Photograph of the Start of a Baseball Game

By Sports, Americana

Baseball, Tombstone & Arizona Territory
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Menko Set

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Japanese Seal and Stamp Book

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Occupation Era Baseball Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Occupation Era Sumo and Baseball Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Travel & Science Fiction Sugoroku Game

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Berlin Olympics Japanese Photo Set (#2)

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Berlin Olympics Japanese Photo Set (#1)

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Berlin Olympics Sugoroku Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Baseball Karuta Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Sugoroku with All Real Players

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Bulletin for African-American Tennis Championships

By Sports, Americana

African American, All Americana, Tennis
Baseball Game with Japanese Players

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Child’s Cup Set

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Berlin Olympics Japanese Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Berlin Olympics Cigarette Case

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Japanese Baseball Comic Book

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Card Game with Hall of Famers

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Homma’s Baseball Cards

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Kaneda Baseball Cards

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Fujimoto Baseball Cards

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Nishizawa Baseball Cards

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Caps with Photos of Players

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Sugoroku Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Occupation Era Sports Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima Store Display

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Karuta Set (with Starffin Card)

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Russo-Japanese War Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Pastels for Children

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Olympics Sports Karuta Set

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Baseball Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Team Matching Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Card Baseball Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Nankai Hawks Baseball Kimono

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Olympics Propaganda Kimono

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Japanese Baseball Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Matching Card Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Cincinnati Reds Tour of Japan Ticket

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Tokyo Olympics Belt Buckle

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Drawing of Baseball Player Hajima

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Drawing of Hall of Famer Kawakami

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Drawing of Hall of Famer Kaoru Betto

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Kimono

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Tokyo Giants Baseball Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Japan-America Baseball Karuta

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
North Pole Expedition Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Los Angeles Olympics Karuta Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Baseball and Crown Prince Photo Set

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Sake Flask

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Postcard of Babe Ruth

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
American All Stars Tour of Japan Program and Magazine

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Photo Card Album

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Die-cut Mask

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Folding Fan

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Cap

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Folding Fan

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Card Album

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Melbourne Olympics Card Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Los Angeles Olympics Game

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Japanese Games & Toys, Olympics
Toy Whistles

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Basketball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
World Travel Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Basketball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Baseball Magazine (1940)

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Magazine (1938)

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Archive set of “Movie Times”

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Football, Japan
Babe Ruth Sugoroku

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
1936 Olympics Kimono

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Baseball Menko Card Collection

By Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan, Japanese Games & Toys
Kimono Celebrating the Los Angeles Olympics

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Japan, Olympics
Baseball Folding Fan

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Baseball Belt Buckle

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan
Woodblock Print Book with Baseball Scene

By Asia/Africa, Sports

Baseball, Japan

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About the Collection

Since 2004, the Melikian Collection has been assembling a unique assortment of unusual objects from around the world. The Collection tells many stories, some untold, some forgotten, and some that have survived despite the attempt to purge them from history. The Collection prides itself on finding rare items that expand our knowledge and challenge our notions of history. We hope you’ll enjoy perusing the Collection as much as we enjoy assembling it.

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