INTEREST SPIKES BUT VALUES DON’T ON PASSING OF SPORTS HEROES

GLORY DAYS — In the space of a few weeks, Major League Baseball lost three familiar names from those glory days of the 1960s and ’70s. Typically, collecting interest in our athletic heroes surges upon their passing. In the cases of Tom Seaver and Lou Brock—both Hall of Famersand longtime Yankee Horace Clarke, that’s exactly what happened, even though values didn’t spike along with interest. Let’s take a look….

Horace Clarke became the face of that “flat” period in Yankee history between the Mickey Mantle era and the blossoming of the Thurman Munson-led title teams. The so-called “Horace Clarke Era” started in earnest in 1965, when he came up while Mickey Mantle’s storied career was winding