Here is an interesting auction the Mets are having. You have the 1988 NL East Championship panels from Citi Field.The bid is currently at $800 dollars for this.
These two panels make up the 1988 National League Champions pennant and were located on the top portion of the left field wall at Citi Field until the end of the 2011 season. Each panel is approximately 4X8′ and weigh about 75 pounds. FJ631830 – FJ631831 Please contact Mets Amazin’ Memorabilia to discuss shipping/pickup details. You may pick up the panels at Citi Field during regular business hours at no additional cost.
*SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE*WINNER MUST CONTACT AMAZIN’ MEMORABILIA TO ARRANGE FREE PICKUP OR DISCUSS COSTS OF DELIVERY*
I would hate to see the cost of delivery for that.
I can see someone wanting to buy the 88 Pennant panels (there is the 1969 and 1986 World champs, the 1999 wild card,2000 NL Champs and 2006 NL East Champ Pennant panels too), but I can not see myself buying the the ad panels that were in the the outfield(sorry to Delta,Lincoln, Geico, Wheat Thins,Bud, Nikon, and Verizon).
Here is the link if you are interested in possibly owning any of these items.
Quick Update: I missed this originally the Mets also have up for auction the retired numbers.
You can start bidding at $1500 for The Franchise’s number.
You can also bid on Gil Hodges and Casey Stengel’s number panels.
I was wondering if the retired-number discs would be replaced with new ones sans drop-shadow. Looks like they will. But will Piazza’s number, if and when it’s retired, have a drop-shadow, since he only played during the drop-shadow era?
(He did wear drop-shadowless numbers a handful of times in 1998, when the pinstripes still didn’t have it.)
Seaver, Stengel, and Hodges didn’t have drop shadows on their jerseys, but their retired numbers did at Citi Field. I’m guessing there will be no black drop shadow on any of the retired numbers.