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Sports Collectible Consignment Directors

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Chris Ivy
Director of Sports Auctions
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1-800-872-6467 x1319
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Chris has literally grown up in the collectibles business since he began attending shows as a child with his father and working summer jobs at Heritage in every department from shipping to inventory control. He graduated with a BA in History from the University of Texas at Austin and began working at Heritage again in 2001 after serving as a professional grader with Sportscard Guaranty Corporation (SGC) in New Jersey. He was the driving force behind the inception of the Sports auction division in 2003 and today serves as the Director of Sports Auctions for Heritage.

Mike Gutierrez
Consignment Director
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1-800-872-6467 x1183
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Mike is one of the foremost sports autograph authenticators in the sports memorabilia business and most serious buyers require his approval before purchasing autographs for their personal collections. He has more than 26 years experience and is one of the few universally respected authorities left standing in a field racked with fraud and forgeries. Mike has authenticated and appraised some of the finest material in the hobby including the Historic Barry Halper Collection, the Mark McGwire 70th Home Run Baseball, the Bruce Lee Estate, the Pete Rozelle Estate, and the Muhammad Ali Estate of Sports Memorabilia.

Mark Jordan
Consignment Director, Sports
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1-800-872-6467 x1187
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Mark has been involved in the sports collectors industry since 1967 when he was a major league bat boy. He was the promoter for the first National Sports Collectors Convention in 1972 and is a nationally known expert in autograph authentication, appearing on NBC nightly news, The Today show, ESPN, USA Today, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and other media outlets regarding collectibles. He has been named as one of the 10 most influential persons in the sports autograph industry by Trading Cards Magazine and his showroom was located in the Texas Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for seven years. He graduated from David Lipscomb University in 1976, where he also served as Sports Information Director.

Peter Calderon
Consignment Director/Vintage Card Expert
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1-800-872-6467 x1789
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Peter Calderon grew up on the north side of Chicago, and, after earning his BA degree in Art from Columbia College of Chicago, he worked in advertising and marketing. He moved to Dallas in 2008 to join Heritage Sports as Consignment Director and Vintage Card Specialist. He has authored both feature articles and a regular column for Beckett Publications.

Jonathan Scheier
Cataloger - Consignment Director
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1-800-872-6467 x1314
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Jonathan is a fourth-generation New York Yankees fan who, for the better part of the past decade, has made use of a Creative Writing major as lead catalog writer for several of the top sports memorabilia auction houses in the industry, where he has personally researched and written the catalog copy for tens of millions of dollars of vintage sports memorabilia. He has served as a consignment director and as lead cataloger for Heritage Sports Collectibles since the summer of 2004.

Stephen Carlisle
Auction Coordinator - CD
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1-800-872-6467 x1292
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
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Stephen Carlisle, along with his father, opened one of Orange County's first full-time sports collectibles stores in 1980. When the store sold, he continued to sell at shows in southern California and New York until the mid-1990s. Prior to joining Heritage in 2003, Stephen spent several years in the Dominican Republic working with Major League Baseball teams including the Oakland Athletics, the St. Louis Cardinals, the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox. He holds a BS degree from Ithaca College.

Sam Foose
Consignment Director & Auctioneer
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1-800-872-6467 x1227
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
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Sam Foose joined Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc., in 1993 as an Auction Coordinator. He rose to Assistant Auction Director in 1998, and began calling auctions. After a stint serving as a Senior Manager and Consignment Director in other collectible fields, he returned to Heritage in 2002 as a Consignment Director to help Heritage's expansion into other collectibles fields. Besides calling auctions as one of Heritage's primary auctioneers, he travels the nation assisting clients who wish to liquidate their collections of coins, paper money, decorative arts, and sports collectibles.

John Hickey
Consignment Director
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1-800-872-6467 x1264
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Blending extensive experience and more than 20 years of collecting (most notably in the autograph field), John Hickey is contributing to Heritage's expansion into new areas and assisting in the consignments of sports, music and entertainment, and historical documents. He came to Heritage as an operations manager in 2004.

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