I wonder what a broken bat from Derek Jeter wood be worth from his HS days?
Whatever is important to you (or him)...someday he may have kids and its fun for them to dig through dads old stuff...i actually still had all my gloves,dating back to Tball....my kids got a kick out of the fact that my first glove was a JC Penney model..what can i say we were broke...i had my Rawlings HS glove refurbished and gave it to my daughter since she is a lefty...As a 10 year old softball player 1B she couldnt have been prouder to sport it.
While most people decorate their rec rooms or man-caves with their favorite professional sports teams, ours is decorate with all our kids memorabilia.
Agree with those that said pics are the most precious items to keep. I have taken down the cage and used the net at the HS, gave the pitching machine to another kid that could use it, tossed some old hats and cleats, gave away a couple of helmets.... just not sure what to do with the rest of it. May keep the last bat and glove he used, and I will prob keep the last bat bag he had with his name embroidered on it. Tough call
As far as the trophies go, my wife got the idea to take the plate off of each one (i.e.2005 Little League Major Champions") and put all of them on one plaque to hang on the wall. That way you get the memory of the event without using up the space of all of those trophies. We'll donate the now blank trophies to Goodwill for someone else to do something with. I do agree it's important to let them decide what to keep (within reason). We've also donated equipment to Pitch In For Baseball. I'd rather it be in the hands of someone who can use it rather than it sit in a closet for years and years.
lhprhp - I love your wife's idea. Smart lady. Thanks for sharing, as I think that is the direction I'm headed.
d8 - I couldn't agree more...pictures are the most important.
I have saved way too much.
If it had keewartson's name in it, I kept it. They will eventually get into a scrapbook.
In high school, it was fairly clear that there was a very special player 2 years ahead of my son. I saved every newspaper article about him through high school and college. He went 1st round this past June. When I started cutting out and dating the articles several weeks ago, I realized this player needed his own scrapbook lol. I also save newspaper articles about college players that he played with in high school/travel team.
I counted 54 baseball caps hanging on pegs in our utility room. That isn't counting the hats in my kids rooms or the ones in the attic that I saved from each team he played on (along with a jersey from each team).
We also have 3 poster-sized collage of pictures framed in our den. They are of our boys taken at all the major league parks we have traveled to over the years. (I am pretty sure I got that idea from this site).
Originally Posted by lhprhp:
As far as the trophies go, my wife got the idea to take the plate off of each one (i.e.2005 Little League Major Champions") and put all of them on one plaque to hang on the wall. That way you get the memory of the event without using up the space of all of those trophies. We'll donate the now blank trophies to Goodwill for someone else to do something with. I do agree it's important to let them decide what to keep (within reason). We've also donated equipment to Pitch In For Baseball. I'd rather it be in the hands of someone who can use it rather than it sit in a closet for years and years.
While I used to live in Pennsylvania, people would donate old trophies (sans plates) to Special Olympics.
In answer to the original question...GET RID OF EVERYTHING!!
I gave up a while ago trying to corral all this stuff, and I'm counting down time so that I can RECLAIM PORTIONS OF MY HOUSE. I swear this stuff is viral: it just keeps spreading to uncluttered areas.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So, this weekend was the big cleanup weekend in my home office. Nothing was going to escape the wrath of the moving boxes....or so I thought. I removed all the engravings (per LHPRHP's great suggestion) and I'll make a special wall decoration from it.
Everything went except one trophy that I just couldn't part with (I went back to get it), and I got a little emotional about it. I gave up state championship trophies, national trophies and plaques. However, I couldn't give up this one small marble team trophy for Sportmanship (at a 2007 national tourney) that means so much to me. It was awarded to my players and coaches, and to this day that thing is priceless to me as I look at what my players have become as current college juniors and seniors. Some are playing D1, D3 and some aren't playing at all. These are great kids & parents, and I'm still really proud of them and their character.