- What is this?
TOM: That's a bench and a table.
Tell me about this.
I started making these benches in 1999.
It's a history of not only the Los Angeles Dodgers,
but going back to Brooklyn.
And I was commissioned by another major league team
to make an autograph bench, and that's
where this idea came from.
Yeah, but it looks like garbage.
[laughs]
No, seriously.
It says Dodgers all over it.
TOM: Not a Dodgers fan.
The San Francisco Giants.
TOM: I'm coming into the pawn shop
today to sell my Los Angeles Brooklyn
Dodgers autographed baseball bat bench
with a matching coffee table.
I've slowly collected these autographs
and finally have it put together as a whole piece.
My goal was for all of these Dodgers
to have touched this bench and touched the table.
And it's almost religious in a way.
So how many cards and everything do you have?
TOM: There are about 170 autographs altogether.
OK. That includes the bats?
TOM: Yes. Bats and baseballs.
One thing you got me massively concerned here,
you took all the bats and the balls,
you drilled holes in them.
Which is, as far as a condition goes, is not really great.
If you understand what I'm saying.
And you want to sell all this.
TOM: I want to sell the set as one.
OK, and how much do you want for it?
- I want $60,000. - Ooh.
Quite frankly, I have no idea if your price is right or not.
Let me call up a buddy and have him take a look at this stuff.
Let me get an idea from him.
I mean, you just have so much stuff here
and I need a little help.
So if you don't mind hanging out, I'm going to get him down,
he'll look at everything, and we'll
try and figure something out. - OK.
- All right? - Thank you.
Hearing that an expert is coming in is going to be a good thing.
It will help me understand what the real value
is for this piece.
He wants a whopping $60,000 for this.
I think that's way out of left field,
but maybe he's just starting real high.
So I called Jeremy down to see what
this thing is really worth.
So we have a Dodgers furniture.
I'd figured I'd have you take a look at it.
He wants a lot of money for them,
but there's a lot of stuff here.
Just from what I can see here real quick,
this is absolutely fantastic.
So what are some of the best pieces we have in here?
Well, Charles Ebbets, I think, is the number one.
I found out there is only one other photograph
that he had signed.
And then Jackie Robinson, that was dated 1954.
Well, just like he said, by far
and away, the best piece in this entire collection
has got to be the Charles Ebbets autograph.
This is, by far, the most scarce autograph
in the entire collection.
Ebbets owned the team in 1900 and opened
Ebbets Field in 1912.
Being that he passed away in the 20s,
that autograph-- especially on a photo like that--
is exceedingly rare.
On the bottom row right here, there's
six different cards in the 1955 season that are autographed.
55 being the key year for the Dodgers.
Their first World Series victory.
So this is just one hell of a collection.
I'm assuming I'd have to break this up to sell it.
It would be a shame to, but it would be incredibly difficult,
in my opinion, to find somebody that
would be spending top dollar on something like this.
And I mean, I can think of thousands of collectors
and fans that would just love to have an authentic autograph,
from the 50s, of Jackie Robinson.
The problem is you're not going to really find too many people
that are going to pay you premium so they can have
autographs of Wally Moon, Rick Monday, and some
of the other Dodgers from throughout the history
of the club.
So what do you think all this stuff is worth?
Well, the autographs themselves,
they all have considerable value,
but beyond that, quite honestly, I'm at a loss of words.
What you've done here to the bats and the balls,
in my industry, it's extremely careless and quite honestly,
it's sacrilegious.
You're not supposed to alter signed memorabilia
when you have it.
So as far as the value, because of the condition, the fact
we have about a 1/2 inch drilled through the entire section
of bats and balls, maybe about $10,000 to $12,000
is what we're looking at. - Thanks, man.
I appreciate it. - You got it, man.
Thank you for showing it to me. - OK.
With sports memorabilia, the one saving grace
is no matter what you have, how rare, how unique, how obscure,
there's always somebody out there looking to buy it.
With this piece in particular, there
would be people that would absolutely pay top dollar
to have it, but we're talking about a very limited,
very small market out there.
All right.
What you've got here is really, really neat.
It's a great collection.
But I would have to break this up.
I understand.
When it comes down to making money,
that's what you got to do.
So I don't think you're going to take $8,000 for all this.
Not at all. No.
I have a lot more.
I have three times that, just in the autographs.
It's a neat set, there's a lot of history.
It's really, really cool.
But I got to make money.
So thanks. - Thank you.
Thanks for looking at it.
I'm very surprised by the value the expert has given me.
It's a one of a kind art piece.
I know there is a buyer out there
that would pay what I want for it,
and that's what I'm going for.