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I'd always heard Wright readily signs his other cards, just not the 87T. Seems like I've seen quite a few 83F over the years.
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What about Randy Myers?
He was notoriously difficult to get; IIRC, he refused to sign anything related to any team he was no longer with, especially the Reds. Steve
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It's always about the medium. Cards have most always outsold flats, and therefore even the year or brand will always bring a premium. Just like the guys who won't sign certain cards, ones issued close to the date of death are usually the toughest. Guys like Mike Miley nust have just sat around signing because his other years are unusually pleantiful for someone who passed so young.
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Signed '86 Topps and Donruss cards of Ramon Romero are very tough.
Legend has it he was killed in a drug deal in New York City in the late 80s. Efforts to find him in the DR apparently were stymied by the fact that there was a different Ramon Romero playing in the White Sox organization at the same time. |
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A 1981 Topps Rick Anderson is up on ebay right now
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-Topps-...oAAOSwf5BbBzYH |
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Tough signed cards
What about 74 Topps Celerino Sanchez.
2 on Ebay past year, 200$+ |
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Good one. Myers was very difficult after his first full season in the majors. He would only sign cards from the current year (and dated them) then became current team/current year after his trade to Cincinnati. A couple years later he basically just stopped signing altogether. I guess he got tired of explaining his weird rules to people?
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I haven't tried to get him, but somewhere along the line I heard he mentioned once he would never signed his Topps (86 traded or 87) and that he would sign his Fleer for $500. If that's true or if he had any takers I'm not sure. I believe, though I could be wrong, that most anything signed by him is period signed.
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Interesting for sure. He must have guessed correctly that the only way his cards would have value was to create it.
How about the Latino guys whose careers ended before the internet boom? There have been private signings in those countries since, but I'd think a lot of them are still pretty rare. Guys like Juan Espino, Salome Barojas, Enrique & Vicente Romo (especially their 1983 issues), Jose Román, Vic Mata, etc. |
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Past Pros just had a private signing with several guys (Mario Mendoza, Enrique Romo, Jose Pena, Carlos Lopez, etc). That should help offer more supply for those guys.
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There is one that never gets mention in these types of conversations and seems to be insanely hard that I stumbled upon by accident. I had obtained a 72T Ray Newman card (Cubs) sometime along the way (it was in a lot I won). Didn't care about it and it sat in my extra vintage box. Then I decided to catalog cool cards I wanted signed and a lot of the 73-74 Topps are on that list because of the great action poses.
Ray Newman has a nice action pitching card in 1973 while with the Brewers. I don't look all the time, but have only seen one listed ever and it went for about $100! I have seen no other 72T signed Newman either. He is apparently still alive, but he must not do much signing, if any now.
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Speaking of tough Dodgers, Brian Traxler. Doesn't have any cards I am aware of, but I had a heck of a time tracking down the index card I have now
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Traxler's only cards are from 1990 Donruss Rookies and Topps MLB Debut. Both are boxed sets that weren't as easy to obtain or as mainstream as the stuff from packs. He died fairly young from severe alcoholism but was a coach in the Dodgers system for a few years after he was done playing. Last time I saw him he was 350 pounds easy.
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I was not into getting autographs at that time. That did not happen until the 90's when we moved to Colorado Springs and followed the Sky Sox. I have ~3500 cards autographed of many players and coaches in the PCL between 93 - 2000 +/- So if anyone is looking for some obscure minor league autographs of PCL players I may have some. Butch
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