{"id":436,"date":"2013-01-04T11:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-01-04T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:14:01","slug":"leroy-79-on-baggage-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2013\/01\/04\/leroy-79-on-baggage-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Leroy &#8217;79 on Baggage Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/baggage-battles\/articles\/meet-the-auction-specialists\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"baggage-battles_host_billy-leroy\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.sndimg.com\/static_files\/imagesource\/imageoutput6\/baggage-battles_host_billy-leroy_196x147.jpg\" alt=\"baggage-battles_host_billy-leroy\" width=\"196\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Baggage Battles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/baggage-battles\/articles\/meet-the-auction-specialists\">Billy Leroy \u201979<\/a> is a cast member on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/baggage-battles\/articles\/baggage-battles\">Baggage Battles<\/a> on Travel Channel.\u00a0 The second season began on December 5. Check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/baggage-battles\/video\">clip of the show here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the website of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/baggage-battles\/articles\/baggage-battles\">Baggage Battles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Ever wonder what happens to your lost luggage? Travel Channel provides a glimpse into the very profitable business of bidding, buying and reselling unclaimed property in the new original series &#8220;Baggage Battles,&#8221; premiering with a special one-hour season opener featuring back-to-back episodes on Wednesday, April 11,10|9c. The half-hour series follows 3 teams of savvy &#8220;auction specialists&#8221; who travel to some of the most important and unknown auctions where their bids are based on sight unseen instincts. The season premiere will kick off at Miami International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, and then the auction pros will jump across &#8220;The Pond&#8221; to London.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Baggage Battles&#8221; features 3 teams of savvy &#8220;auction specialists&#8221;: Laurence and Sally Martin, a married couple, have been in the antique business for over 20 years co-owning Studio Antiques in El Segundo, CA. Mark Meyer is a young entrepreneur and owner of Long Island, New York\u2019s The Nifty Thrifty store. And, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/tv-shows\/baggage-battles\/articles\/meet-the-auction-specialists\">Billy Leroy<\/a> is the owner of the iconic Billy\u2019s Antiques and Props, one of the last eclectic props and antique stores in NYC. With dozens of auctions to visit, thousands of bags to explore, and millions of dollars at stake, these auction specialists need both skill and luck to hit the jackpot. They don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s junk or a jackpot until they win the bid and open the suitcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Leroy \u201979 is a cast member on Baggage Battles on Travel Channel.\u00a0 The second season began on December 5. Check out a clip of the show here. From the website of Baggage Battles: Ever wonder what happens to your lost luggage? Travel Channel provides a glimpse into the very profitable business of bidding, buying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2013\/01\/04\/leroy-79-on-baggage-battles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leroy &#8217;79 on Baggage Battles<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,46,45,47],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","tag-48","tag-baggage-battles","tag-billy-leroy","tag-travel-channel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}