March autograph pickups

[7nohitter]

Cool back story, Scott...I guess you do, indeed, have a 'rare' Feller auto!!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

Cool back story, Scott...I guess you do, indeed, have a 'rare' Feller auto!!

Thanks Andrew!

[esiason14]

Very cool!

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[esiason14]

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[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by esiason14

Very cool!

Thanks Kyle! I like your signed cards, too.

[esiason14]

Scott,
Just out of curiosity, was there a reason you chose checks for your project? Who are the toughest no-hit guys that you have?

[johnmh71]

Originally Posted by esiason14

Scott,
Just out of curiosity, was there a reason you chose checks for your project? Who are the toughest no-hit guys that you have?

As a collector of checks, I was wondering the same thing.

[btcarfagno]

WW2 hero Elmer Gedeon signed 1939 Senators mini bat. Just added it to the B/S/T for anyone interested.



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[Michael B]

This arrived in the mail today. It is a menu from the S.S. Manhattan for July 18, 1936. It was one of two ships that took the U.S. Olympic team to Europe for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. It is signed by:

Ernie Crosbie - 1932, 1936 & 1948 50km walk
Al Mangan - 1936 50km walk
Harold Manning - 3000m steeplechase - 5th
Glenn Hardin - LSU star 1932 silver and 1936 gold 400m hurdles
Archie Williams - 1936 gold 400m. Also a world record holder at the distance. He graduated from UCal/Berkley. Flight instructor at Tuskegee Institute during WWII (the Tuskegee Airmen). Later a bomber pilot and retired as a Lt Col.
Foy Draper - 1936 gold medal in the 4x100m relay with Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe and Frank Wykoff. Set a world record and the first 4x100 relay to clock under 40 seconds. He ran a 10.3 100m in 1935 losing to Owens. Killed in action during WWII. His plane went missing while flying over Tunisia during the Battle of Kassarine Pass on January 4, 1943.

Draper is the only U.S. Olympian who died during WWII that I have owned. This is my second one, the first was signed during the 1934 AAU championships.

Interestingly I have owned signatures of a Filipino medalist who died during the Bataan Death March, a Japanese gold medalist and army officer who died on Iwo Jima (suicide), German medalist who died on the Russian Front, German medalist who died in a POW camp in France just as the war ended and a Polish gold medalist soldier and resistance fighter who was executed by the Gestapo.

[daves_resale_shop]

Pretty excited to Add this one to my son's Ted Williams collection... And I have loved the image ever since I first saw it...

Some of you may have seen this photo... PSA/DNA uses it as an exemplar for its autographfacts site, and I have used (a copy) to display with one of my vintage Ted album pages...

In any case, I was trolling ebay the other night and saw that it was up for sale... I contacted the seller (Who purchased the item in 2009 from Leland's) and was able to make a deal at the Wilmington show yesterday...

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by esiason14

Scott,
Just out of curiosity, was there a reason you chose checks for your project? Who are the toughest no-hit guys that you have?

Hi Kyle and John,
Great question both of you!
I actually collect many themes related to no-hitters.
Collecting checks of no-hit pitchers is one subset of one of the major themes in my no-hit collection.

Big picture: I actually collect the signatures of all no-hit pitchers dating back to 1893. 1893 was the year that they changed the mound distance to the modern standard of 60' 6". I am about 19 away from completing this collection. I mostly collect GPC's, 3 x 5's and cuts in this collection.

As far as checks go, I always have liked checks, and especially personal checks, as a signed medium.
Overall, I would not say that many no-hit pitchers in the check portion of my collection are scary tough. Many of these guys are HOF, but many are not as well.
Here are a few that I think are somewhat tough:

-A signed payroll voucher (somewhat similar to a check) for Frank "Noodles" Hahn. Noodles Hahn threw the first no-hitter of the 1900's in 1900 for the Cincinnati Reds. Tough sig. This is dated 1903.

-A signed Yankees payroll check for Samuel Pond "Sad Sam" Jones. This is dated 1923.

-A personal check of Leslie Ambrose "Bullet Joe" Bush.

-A 1960 personal check for Don Larsen (World Series Perfect Game) made out to the KC Athletics when he played for them.

-Not a check, but a $20 money order filled out and signed by "Tom Terrific" Seaver 1992. Unusual and cool.

-Payroll checks for Tom Phoebus (minor league) and Ken Johnson (major league).

-An endorsed check for $104,840 to David Cone (Perfect game) dated 1999.
It pays to pitch a perfect game for the Yankees- yikes!

To date I do not own a Walter Johnson personal check although I would like to add one at some point. I also do not own a Christy Mathewson. The cost of this check is probably out of my reach $$ wise.

For this portion of my collection, I do not have any great strategy other than adding new ones as I find them.

Thanks for your interest!