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[Passan] BREAKING: Third baseman Munetaka Murakami and the Chicago White Sox are in agreement on a two-year, $34 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Murakami, 25, is the single-season home run champion in Japan and will bring his prodigious power to a rebuilding White Sox team.
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r/baseball - [Passan] BREAKING: Third baseman Munetaka Murakami and the Chicago White Sox are in agreement on a two-year, $34 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Murakami, 25, is the single-season home run champion in Japan and will bring his prodigious power to a rebuilding White Sox team.
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Inherited~700 VHS tapes of MLB games my dad recorded (mostly late 80s–early 90s). What should I do with them?
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Inherited~700 VHS tapes of MLB games my dad recorded (mostly late 80s–early 90s). What should I do with them?

Hi all. I'm looking for advice from people who know baseball history / memorabilia / archives better than I do.

I recently ended up with a large collection of VHS tapes my dad recorded off TV. Rough estimate is ~700 tapes of MLB (actually some minor league as well from local broadcasts) content, mostly from the mid-1980s through early 1990s. The tapes are hand-labeled with matchups and dates (regular season games, some playoffs), and many include the full original broadcast.

Important constraints:

  • I’m not going to watch them all

  • I’m not planning to digitize hundreds of tapes myself

  • I don’t really know which games, teams, years, or broadcasts (if any) are actually desirable or historically interesting

My questions:

  1. Is any subset of this kind of material genuinely sought after? (specific years, teams, announcers, playoff rounds, etc.)

  2. Do archives, universities, museums, or MLB-adjacent orgs ever want off-air recordings like this?

  3. If selling is realistic at all, what’s the right level of granularity — individual games, team/year lots, or just bulk?

  4. Or is the honest answer that this is mostly nostalgia and should be treated as bulk media unless something very specific stands out?

I’m trying to decide whether this is:

  • something worth carefully triaging,

  • something to offer to an archive,

  • or something to bulk-sell / give away and move on.

If you’ve dealt with old broadcasts, archival sports media, or collector markets, I’d really appreciate your perspective. Happy to answer clarifying questions.

Thanks!