Atogrphed, authentic, how much?
  Find information on Vintage Baseball collectibles, Tips on caring for your Valued Memorabilia collection Price Guide, Dates, and more!  
  Price Guide, Collectors Guide, Worth, Date    
HOME facebook BUY/SELL FORUM CONTACT

COLLECTORS CORNER

  Category
  ADVERTISING
  AUTOGRAPHS
  BASEBALLS
  BASEBALL BATS
  BOBBLE HEADS
  CARDS
  EQUIPMENT
  FIGURINES
  GAMES & TOYS
  GAME USED
  GLOVES & MITTS
  HATS & UNIFORMS
  PENNANTS
  PHOTOS & ART
  PINS & BUTTONS
  PLATES
  POSTERS & SIGNS
  PUBLICATIONS
  RECORDS
  S.G.A.'S
  TICKETS
  MISCELLANEOUS
  Collectors Guides
  BASEBALL CARD
CHECKLISTS
  BASEBALL BAT
DATING GUIDE
  BASEBALL GLOVE
CLEANING GUIDE
  BASEBALL GLOVE
DATING GUIDE
  COLLECTIBLE
GLOSSARY
  EXHIBIT BASEBALL
CARD DATING
  FAKE & REPRODUCTION ALERTS
  OFFICIAL MLB
BASEBALL DATING
  QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
  PRICE GUIDES
  MICKEY MANTLE
MEMORABILIA 
  SINGLE SIGNED
BASEBALLS
  TEAM SIGNED
BASEBALLS
  WORLD SERIES
PRESS PINS
  WORLD SERIES
TICKET STUBS
  SITE FEATURES
  ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
  COLLECTORS CORNER
  CONTACT
  FACEBOOK GROUP
  FACEBOOK PAGE
  FORUM
  NEWSLETTER 
 
KeyMan Collectibles on facebook
 


MLB Team Face Covers

2020 World Series Champions WinCraft Pennamt

2020 All-Star Game Official Baseball

2020 All-Star Game Phantom Pennant

2020 World Series Program


Join KeyMan Collectibles Group on facebook

 

  Collectors News Announcements and Articles of Interest  
Keymancollectibles.com The Webs Best Recourse for Baseball Memorabilia July 1, 2021
  2020 Covid-19 Pandemic Baseball Memorabilia
A Look At Baseball Memorabilia Created By The Coronavirus Pandemic.
 
 
 Baseball memorabilia associated with tragedy will typically have a low collectors value. But, it is an historic documentation that tells the story to future generations of a time of national crisis, and loss of life. Baseball helped us cope with it, by returning some normalcy to our daily lives. The bravery of our healthcare workers putting themselves in the path of this virus will never be forgotten.
 
    
Major League Baseball cancelled the remainder of its Spring Training games on March 12, and announced that the start of the 2020 regular season, which was to start on March 26, will be delayed by at least two weeks due to the national emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic. As it turned out, the 2020 regular season did not begin until July 23 in Washington, with cardboard cut-outs replacing the fans in the stands for the remainder of the season.

 Tickets and pocket schedules are printed months in advance to be ready for the start of the baseball season. Millions of phantom pocket schedules, and tickets would become nothing more than historic artifacts, for an unprecedented 60 game Pandemic baseball season.

 The Field of Dreams game between the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees, originally scheduled for August 13, 2020, as highlighted on the schedule below was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
 
   
   
 Major League Baseball announced the Field of Dreams Game, is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 12, 2021, at the Dyersville, Iowa, site that hosted the film of the same name. The Field of Dreams Game will be the first Major League Baseball game ever played in Iowa.

 The bulk of the collectors value for a ticket relies on a significant game event, or player milestone. 2020 regular season tickets lack any attributes of any significance, other than the game was cancelled due to the pandemic. With millions printed, and made available to the market, the pandemic baseball tickets are nothing more than a novelty.

 
   
 
Before the start of the 2020 pandemic baseball season, the league's set health protocols and testing plans. Among the steps taken to help ensure safety throughout the 60-game season, players were required to wear masks during the games.

 The quarantined fans battling cabin fever were more than happy watching the games in the safety of home, but when heading out to the store to buy ♪♪Some Peanuts and Crackerjacks ♪♪ also had to wear masks. The retail market was then flooded with team branded face masks.

Now in 2021, the fans are finally returning to the ball parks, and marketers are calling them "MLB Gameday Face Masks." The perfect accessory for baseball fans! WinCraft, the company that produces most of the souvenir pennants sold at the ballpark jumped into the face mask business by introducing the 2021 MLB Spring Training face covers.

 The 2-ply barrier non-medical grade, one size fits most, lightweight face covers feature slits to place your ear through. A "portion of the proceeds fight Covid-19" Wincraft also produces the officially license face covers representing all Major League baseball teams. The back of the display cards have a disclosure of risks and wavier of Liability. "The Fan Mask Face Cover is the best everyday mask to show your team spirit."

  In 2020 Cubs slugging second baseman Ian Happ partnered with Connect Roasters, a coffee roasting company that sends part of its sales to community organizations where it grows its coffee, to give back to COVID-19 relief efforts.

Happ and Connect Roasters released a line of coffee, Quarantine Coffee, where part of the sales will go directly to COVID-19 relief efforts. Each bag of coffee sells for $15 and $3 from each bag sold goes to COVID-19 relief charities. In a letter written by Happ, "a coffee connoisseur" he states "Buy a bag. Enjoy Quarantine Coffee and let’s help grow the COVID-19 relief effort one cup at a time."

On July 23 in Washington, the 2020 baseball season was started with a ceremonial first pitch thrown out by Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The 79-year-old Brooklyn native and a ardent Washing Nationals fan, wore a Nationals jersey, hat and facemask. Topps Now® issued a card to celebrate the occasion.

 TOPPS NOW® celebrates the greatest moments in Sports and Entertainment... as they happen! TOPPS NOW® trading cards are available for 24 hours only, offered exclusively on Topps.com, and include Free Shipping. Print runs of every card are announced on Topps.com so you know how rare your cards are!

 The 2020 All-Star Game planned to be hosted on July 14 by the Los Angeles Dodgers and the City of Los Angeles, was cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. With the Atlanta Braves already named as host of the 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta* the Dodgers will host the next available Midsummer Classic in 2022.  It was the first cancellation since 1945, when the All-Star Game that year was not held in compliance with wartime travel restrictions at the time.

Rawlings, the supplier of Major League baseballs since 1977, made the Official 2020 commemorate All-Star baseball available to collectors. The baseballs come in a clear display case.

 *League officials have moved the 2021 All-Star game to Coors Field for political Reasons.

Travel restriction due to the Covid-19 Pandemic prevented broadcasters from traveling with the team. The home team’s broadcasters did the games in the usual ballpark set up, but each separated by a barrier. Visiting teams did the play-by-play off of monitors from remote studio locations or from an empty home stadium. Some did the games from a studio set up in their home.

 Yankees broadcaster Paul O’Neill does commentary from his home, "Paul's Basement" Ohio U.S.A., 500 miles from Yankee Stadium. Dubbed "Studio 21," T-Shirts were made and became a big hit with Yankee Fans.

 The 2020 COVID-19 Postseason format, will go down as one of the most unique in baseball history. MLB expanded it to 16 teams and added a best-of-three Wild Card Series played at the higher seed’s home ballpark. The Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series were played in neutral "bubble" sites in Arlington, Houston, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Players, coaches, staff and media members were confined to their hotel rooms and the ballpark, unable to participate in any outside activities.
 
 
 
 
   
 MLB allowed a limited number of fans at the NLCS between the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as the World Series between the Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays. There were a little more than 11,000 fans permitted to each of the six World Series games played at Globe Life Field  in Texas. 2020 was the Inaugural season for the home ballpark of the Texas Rangers.

The Los Angeles Dodgers(4) beat the Tampa Bay Rays(2) in the best of seven series. It was the first time the world Series was  played entirely at one site since 1944. The World Series was last played at one site in 1944 at Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis, where the Cardinals beat the Browns 4 games to 2.

  New York’s Polo Grounds hosted all the games in 1921 and 1922, the last two seasons it was the home of both the New York Giants and Yankees. The Giants won both titles. The Rawlings Official 2020 World Series baseballs were also made available to collectors.

 
 
 
  KEYMAN COLLECTIBLES RELATED RESOURCES  
 
     
  KeyMan Collectibles Baseball Memorabilia Facebook Group - Post Questions and comments relating to Baseball Collectibles and Memorabilia. Interact with other collectors or show off your collection.  
  KeyMan CollectiblesForum - A great option for those that "Don't do facebook"  Post Questions and comments relating to Baseball Collectibles and Memorabilia  
 
     
Back To KeyMan Collectibles Collectors Corner
 
 
  Home | Auctions | Message Board | Newsletter | About this Site  
Link Directory | Links Page | Collectors Corner | Contact | Site Map