Just bought this check as part of a collection and jogged my memory to when these first came out. Signed Clemente checks have become extremely desirable and quite pricey over the years. I was lucky enough to be around the hobby in the early 1980's and remember being offered 30 of these Clemente checks for $350.00 each. I had never seen one and not knowing how many were out there I declined and instead bought only one. In hindsight $350.00 WAS quite rich then as Babe Ruth checks could be bought for $500.00 or less and Ty Cobb checks were less than $100.00. As it would turn out more Clemente checks surfaced but most were not as nice as the original group. I was lucky enough however to buy a handful of the checks signed by "The Babe" as $500.00 seemed liked a bargain. Ended up with 30 or more and a year later they were fetching $1,000.00 each so I sold them all. Like Yogi Berra said "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future"
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