Chris Ivy
Director of Sports Auctions
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Chris began working at Heritage in 2001 after serving as a professional grader with Sportscard Guaranty Corporation (SGC). He was the driving force behind the inception of the Sports auction division in 2003 and today Chris serves as the Director of Sports Auctions for Heritage. In his position, Chris is responsible for the day-to-day operations, combining vision and execution with a balance of business and collecting passion, he works with consignors and recommends the disposition of the collections that come into Heritage in order to maximize each consignor's financial return.
Chris has been involved in the collectibles business his entire life and realized that his true interest was in vintage sports material at a very young age. He soon began setting up as a dealer at local trade shows at the age of 12 and collected avidly through his adolescence. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Texas at Austin and enjoys following college athletics.
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Mike Gutierrez
Consignment Director
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Mike Gutierrez is the foremost sports autograph authenticator in the sports memorabilia business. Serious buyers require Mike's OK before purchasing sports autographs. Mike has over 26 years experience and is one of the few universally respected authorities left standing in a field racked with fraud and forgeries. The industry has been plagued by FBI investigations of fraud and Mike is the single most respected repository of trust in the business.
No other autograph expert commands the respect of Mike and his influence is best demonstrated by the auction results of items authenticated by him measured by similar items authenticated by others. Gutierrez authenticated items bring markedly higher prices.
Most notably, he authenticated all the autograph material from the Barry Halper Collection sold by Sotheby's in 1998. Through Butterfield & Butterfield, he appraised the Mark McGwire 70th Home Run Baseball for the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. Additionally, he handled all the memorabilia from The Bruce Lee Estate and appraised The Pete Rozelle Estate. This last year he appraised Muhammad Ali's Estate of Sports Memorabilia.
Currently Mike is working for Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. He is also an autograph authentication consultant for PSA/DNA.
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Mark Jordan
Consignment Director, Sports
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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 promotor for the first National Sports Collectors Convention in 1972. He is a nationally known expert in autograph authentication and has appeared on NBC nightly news, The Today show, ESPN, USA Today, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and other media outlets regarding collectibles. He was named as one of the 10 most influential persons in the sports autograph industry by Trading Cards Magazine.. His showroom was 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. He attends many championship events dealing with clients and has been to 18 Super Bowls and 55 World Series games.
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Peter Calderon
Consignment Director/Vintage Card Expert
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Peter joined Heritage Sports in 2008 after serving as a writer and researcher of vintage cards as well as the Trading Card Department Head for a competitor for the last three years. Peter has written both feature articles and a steady column for Beckett Publications. Although a relative newcomer to working in the hobby full-time, he has been an enthusiastic card collector for over 25 years. Peter was interested in pre-WWII vintage cards even at a young age and this led to a particular interest in "E" Caramel/Candy cards. Prior to working within the hobby, Peter worked for 15 years in advertising/marketing as a graphic designer and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from Columbia College of Chicago. A freshly transplanted Texan, Peter was born and raised in Chicago and is a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan. In addition to vintage baseball cards, he has a steadily growing collection of pre-war non-sport cards, Golden-Age comics and a Rita Hayworth collection.
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Jonathan Scheier
Cataloger - Consignment Director
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With a BA in Creative Writing from Eckerd College and an MA in Creative Writing from Florida State University, Jonathan began his career in the auction industry as Senior Copy Editor for Leland's Auctions in New York. He has since written on a freelance basis for American Memorabilia and Sports Collectors Digest, among others. Jonathan joined Heritage Sports Collectibles in 2004. He is a die-hard fan of the New York Yankees, and counts guitar and fitness among his hobbies.
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Stephen Carlisle
Auction Coordinator - CD
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Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
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Stephen started collecting sports cards in the late 1970s and attended shows in the Southern California area (shows that would eventually become the National Sports Collectors Convention several years later). Along with his father, Stephen opened one of Orange County's first full-time sports collectibles stores in 1980. When the store was eventually sold, Stephen 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. Stephen holds a BS degree from Ithaca College in New York and enjoys watching sports, as well as spending time with his wife and two daughters.
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Sam Foose
Consignment Director
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Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
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Sam's professional career at Heritage divides neatly into two parts. Sam joined Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc. in 1993 as an Auction Coordinator. Over the next five years, Sam ran the day-to-day auction operations, ultimately rising to Assistant Auction Director. He also first started calling auctions during these years.
After serving as a Senior Manager and Consignment Director in other collectible fields outside of numismatics, Sam returned to Heritage in 2002 as a Consignment Director in time to help Heritage's expansion into other collectible areas. In this important role, Sam travels the country assisting clients who wish to liquidate their collections of coins, paper money, decorative arts, and sports collectibles. To Sam, helping consignors make the best decisions to maximize their returns from the auctioning of their properties is the most rewarding part of his job.
Sam also holds auction licenses in several jurisdictions, and has hammered in excess of $150 million in collectibles as one of Heritage's primary auctioneers. During his elusive (but much appreciated) free time, Sam really enjoys spending time with his wife (Heather) and two children (Jackson and Caroline). His personal interests include gardening, golf, grilling, and sports.
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John Hickey
Sales Development Manager
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Blending his extensive work experience and more than twenty years of participation in several areas of collecting, most notably in the autograph field, John is contributing to our expansion into new areas and assisting clients with collections of memorabilia in the areas of Sports, Music & Entertainment, and Historical Documents. After more than thirty years in the insurance business, primarily in a senior executive capacity, John decided to inject more fun into his work life and came to Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers as Operations Manager in 2004. He fills a number of roles at Heritage, including Collectibles Expert, Consignment Director and Project Manager.
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