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TORONTO -- Former national team members Andrea Blackwell, Bill Coulthard and Candace Jirik are being inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame. "Andrea, Bill and Candace were great players on the court and wonderful people off of it," Michele OKeefe, executive director of Canada Basketball, said Wednesday. "I am proud that their dedication to the game and their commitment to this country will forever be remembered with a place alongside Canadas basketball legends." Blackwell grew up in Calgary but her basketball career took off in Kingston, Ont., where she played on the LaSalle Secondary School junior girls team. She later won back-to-back national championships in 1983-84 with Bishops University, and won the Nan Copp Award as the countrys most outstanding player in her senior year. She spent 17 years on the junior and senior national teams, including four world championship appearances and a bronze medal in 1986 plus two Olympics. 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The Major League great was acquitted but banned from the sport.Hes a legendary figure and to have an actual object that he touched and used in a game, its a very special piece, said Simeon Lipman, Christies pop culture specialist.The auction record for a game-used baseball bat is a 1923 Babe Ruth bat that sold for $1.2 million in 2004.The sale also has a game bat used by Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson when he played for the Pittsburghh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936 and a Jackie Robinson bat that could sell for $300,000 to $400,000.ddddddddddddRobinson, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956, gave the bat to a collector and signed it for him at a 1955 game at Philadelphias Connie Mack Stadium.Steve Costello, a baseball historian and former executive vice president of Steiner Sports collectibles, said collecting of vintage items is at an all-time high, because theres a scarcity of items and an increase in the number of collectors.The Christies sale also includes other items and photography related to the Negro Leagues, including a 1907 book that chronicles the history of black baseball from 1885 through 1907. The History of Colored Base Ball was written by Sol White, captain of the Philadelphia Giants and future Hall of Famer. The auction house thinks it might sell for between $15,000 and $20,000.Christies says the total value of the auction items could top $5 million. The sale is scheduled for Oct. 19 and 20.The museum selling the items did not return an email request for comment. ' ' '