OWN A PIECE OF OLYMPIC SOFTBALL HISTORY
2010-01-26

An auction has just gotten underway on the popular website, eBay, featuring a collection of eight issues of World Softball magazine (pictured).  The official publication of the sport's world governing body, World Softball has English content that is also mirrored in Spanish.

This auction contains all the issues that were published around each one of softball's four appearances in the Olympic Games:

July/August 1996 (Vol. 25, No. 6) - Olympic softball preview
September 1996 - Olympic softball recap
May-Aug. 2000 (Vol. 29, No. 7) - Olympic softball preview
Sep.-Dec. 2000 (Vol. 29, No. 8) - Olympic softball recap
May-Aug. 2004 (Vol. 32, No. 2) - Olympic softball preview
Sep.-Dec. 2004 (Vol. 32, No. 3) - Olympic softball recap
May-Aug. 2008 (Vol. 36, No. 2) - Olympic softball preview
Sep.-Dec. 2008 (Vol. 36, No. 3) - Olympic softball recap

These issues not only have Olympic softball-related content such as articles, photos, and statistics, but additional editorial on various other international softball news from on- and off-the-field.

Each issue in this auction is printed in full color and will be shipped directly from the International Softball Federation’s world headquarters in Plant City, Florida. The opening auction price of $39.99 minimum bid (five dollars per magazine) is a bargain considering that the ISF’s online store, shop.internationalsoftball.com, lists back issues at $7.50 each.

Bid now, and good luck!