Mirror Mirror on the wall.......What will my avid readers say about this post to say my Man Cave will leave them in awe!!!!!!! You'll have to excuse me with the photos I took them on Wednesday night after acquiring one of these things you're about to see. These mirrors were made by the Seagram's Whiskey Company to be showcased in bars in the 1990's. I am not sure how many of them are in the series but I think I have them all even though 1 of them I need to get replaced cause it has a crack on it & I am not in a rush to get just yet.
There's a total of 18 of these mirrors I have placed them in Alphabetical order cause that's how I want to place them within my Man Cave walls when I get a chance to hang them all up that's where you my avid reader of my blog can help me in figuring out where I should place a certain mirror at the beginning of them & the other 17 as like a header card like or do I put 9 of them then place the questionable one in the middle like a checklist one that is usually in the middle of sets like then continue where I left off or do I place it at the end again as a checklist that's at most sets. The 17 subjects are Ernie Banks,Roy Campanella,Roberto Clemente,Ty Cobb,Whitey Ford, Lou Gehrig,Bob Gibson (was the last subject I needed & picked up on Wednesday after working my school job.), Gil Hodges, Shoeless Joe Jackson,Willie Mays,Satchel Paige,Brooks Robinson,Pete Rose,Babe Ruth,Ozzie Smith, Willie Stargell, Cy Young, finally even though its cracked a 6 player collage that features 6 of these legends.
I have to start to thanking my father back in 1995 I believe he was on his way home from working he stopped at a liquor store when he brought home the Willie Stargell cause he knew his middle son was so into baseball & thought it would look nice hanging in his bedroom. There it stood in my bedroom for many years & I didn't think of it much until it cause I didn't know much like how many of these things are there? Who were all the subjects? Was it just a fluke that 'Pops' Stargell had one made only for the fans of Pittsburgh to enjoy looking at their local watering holes? There were alot of questions to be asked about these mirrors & I still don't have any complete answers since I attempted to reach out to the Seagram's company only to have gone completely ignored.
Back in 2020 when my girlfriend & I moved from our 1 bedroom apartment to a new house I brought along 'Pops' figuring out where to place it upon my empty walls in my newly formed Man Cave. Then I had a thought maybe I should do a search on eBay just to see what I could find on them & just how much Willie might sell for should I decide to pass on the idea of doing them should it be a hassle to accomplish in finding them. Well.....as you can see I didn't give up on finding them, & its been fun trying to find out the numerous questions I have on them.
I started my search by typing Seagrams Baseball Mirrors on Google only to find about a few of the players so I thought that was it after making an initial listing & I even went as far to reach out to the Seagrams company to find out how many there is while I am certain there's about 17 subjects & 1 collages I mentioned before & there's even different colored frames from black to red & if you ask me the red frames really make it stand out plus its the same color as everlasting 7 Logo shown on the bottles. As I would acquire a new mirror in the last 6 years I would cross it off the list & there's even different sizes on some of them they measure 20"x 16" they were offered as a give away cause they were first advertised as a Baseball Fan Guide I don't have any of the guides themselves cause they even had matching glassware of the subject I have enclosed a photos of the 1992 guide that offered the Willie Mays mirror & you can see for yourself how to get one of these mirrors as well the matching glassware as well.
Now would I like the guides part of me says yeah so I would know just about how many there are, as the other part that says no I don't want the guides is cause I am still hoping that maybe just maybe someone will reach out to me & give me news saying oh there's more than just those 17 individuals or yes that's all they produced was 17 players & 1 collage & you have a complete set. Now while I collected these mirrors I found out certain players are bit harder to find them most but as of late some of the rare ones are slowly appearing on eBay more frequently then when I first started I guess it was cause of how I went to finding them in the first place.
I don't need another factoid booklet to my collection when I am a walking/talking baseball encyclopedia according to most of my readers with my knowledge of the game.
As you can see there's the send away offer in this picture shown above as well as the glassware.
I mentioned there is was some rare ones those would be like Roy Campanella,Bob Gibson,Joe Jackson,Satchel Paige,Brooks Robinson,Pete Rose, & Ozzie Smith. The others I didn't mention were frequently easy to obtain on eBay when I started to collect them. Most range in prices from $25 on up depending on who the player is & if it rarer to find that certain subject or not.
I have many people I want to thank for helping me purchase them for me which I later paid back for their assistance. 1 is my friend Pat Mooney she was able to snag me off eBay once I saw them the Joe Jackson,Satchel Paige,Brooks Robinson,Pete Rose, & Roy Campanella as well the first Ozzie Smith one I had before it cracked too. Another blogger friend from the blog Not Another Baseball Card Blog Mike Matson the nice Canadian friend helped me out in requiring Ozzie Smith again when I saw it pop up again on eBay I reached out to him seeing if he had a PayPal account so he could help me snag the Smith as well the Bob Gibson he was only able to afford the Smith because of his funds in money & I couldn't complain I just had to wait on the Gibson a little longer then I wanted the only complaint I had was when I got the Smith it too was cracked some but its fine. About a week after receiving the Smith I was at my monthly show in Livonia I was getting ready to say my farewell to my dealer friends I stopped at David Moore's table now usually we banter like Woody Hayes & Bo Schembechler on who's a better team either my THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY or his Ugly of Manure (Those who are regulars to my blog reading ya know I don't give a rats arse about the Universtity of Muchigan!!!!) & I mentioned about what Mike did I muttered I wish I could get the Bob Gibson one but I didn't have a PayPal account David said he be nice to get for me provided I could pay him for it once it arrived I told him if he got it before I left I pay him on the spot cause I had the amount on hand & all he had to do is let me know when I could pick it up well that was on Wednesday a day we both were free & was able to meet up & I could take Bob home to join with the others I have. Another person who helped me out was my yes readers you guessed it was my good friend Greg who helped me in getting some of them as well as the early ones including the collage before it got damaged. Otherwise the others came from going to antique stores,card shows & card shops friends who might have one after hearing about my quest in obtaining them all or they thought their mirror was the only one to me when I saw one I had to acquire it ASAP in fear that someone else would snatch it up before me.
Now my readers I like to present to you my collection of The Seagram's 7 Baseball Legends Mirrors. So sctoll down the page look at these great mirrors the last being the collage I didn't want to show my cracked version so I had to show you what I need but the others are shown as is that I have in my house at the moment I like to hear your feedback on this especially on how I should showcase them on my wall as I mentioned my dilemma that I talked about above.
Well thanks for taking the time to read this post if you have any information that I didn't cover please let me know or is there a particular one that your envy of me of having & ya wished you could find that player for your Man Cave I like to hear as well & also how should I show them, until then I reminded what Rogers Hornsby once said about signing autographs for little kids "Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."
