Article: All-star lineup heads for auction On deck: Nearly 5 decades of sports and celebrity memorabilia, all for sale

By MIKE JOHNSON

Town of Eagle -- Freddie Hanneman Jr. has a sports and Hollywood memorabilia and autograph collection that is in a league of its own.

Amassed over nearly five decades, the former New Berlin man reluctantly is parting ways with the collection, which includes baseball bats signed by Stan "The Man" Musial, the 1957 World Series champion Milwaukee Braves and the 1982 American League champion Milwaukee Brewers.

Beginning Saturday, Hanneman's collection, worth about $100,000, will be auctioned over three days at the House in the Woods Auction Gallery in the Town of Eagle in western Waukesha County.

He'd like to keep the treasures, but retiring to sunny Arizona threw the collection ...

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