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Originally Posted by bender07
Sorry for bumping an old thread (especially one not related to TPGs or "is this good?") but I'm still wondering why the these sigs are so scarce. Thoughts?
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To answer your question , the date of death is not always the primary indication of rarity , some old time players just "vanished" after their playing careers. A prime example would be Roy Castleton who died in 1967 and was an accountant most of his life yet to my knowledge there are no autographs of his that have ever been offered for sale.
Another example would be Charles Perkins who played for the 1930 A's and 1934 Brooklyn Dodgers. But died in 1988. He was "found" by an astute collector who had him sign several items , he then informed Mr Smalling (baseball address list) that Perkins had been "found" but before the info could be made public Perkins died.
Almost the same thing happened with Karl Spooner and others. Not counting guys like Clancy Smyres who just simply refused to sign anything even though his name, address and phone number were listed in the telephone directory.
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