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Hence the 784. 792 minus the 7 checklists and Ricky Wright
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I have secured Randy Myers (it helps I live in his hometown). In my perception Dick Howser will likely be the most difficult and expensive card in the set. I have yet to see one available in nearly a year of searching.
I am also completing several of the subsets the glossy all-star cards (from rack packs) and the all star rookie cards (from cello packs). The all star rookies seem to be the more difficult of the two. |
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I also heard that terry Forster of the angels is almost impossible to find.
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Howser is tough but out there. I have seen at least 6. I sold one on ebay a few months ago and have one with my complete signed set. Good luck. It is a great set, but obviously very popular with autograph set collectors
Last edited by pooh528; 02-23-2015 at 01:56 PM. |
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How did you land a signed Howser? Any other cards especially difficult to find? Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
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What's the deal with Ricky Wright?
Cool challenge, by the way. '87 Topps was my first as a youngster |
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Seems like Ricky Wright may be the new Mike Marshall. Maybe Ricky will cave when people finally offer him a few hundred dollars for his sig.
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Howser was around in Spring Training of 1987 so those cards signed, while still tough to find, aren't as rare as you'd expect.
Some of the tougher cards are the aforementioned Ricky Wright and Terry Forster, along with a few Latin guys who played very briefly after the set was issued. Juan Espino is tough, Al Pulido even tougher. Roy Lee Jackson is also hard to find as he was out of baseball when the card was issued and for a long time (maybe still) was unresponsive TTM. Randy Myers was actually a very willing signer early in his career, which is good for 87T collectors as that was his rookie. He was flaky though, and would only sign current year cards, and dated them all with M/Y. In 1988 he started just signing the number for the month (4 for April for example), I guess because he figured the year was implied due to his self-imposed rules. When he was traded to the Reds, his policy became current year, current TEAM cards only. Now that he's retired, I've heard he signs all years of cards again, but still dates them. I believe at his last paid signing there were certain teams he would not sign. I think it was Orioles cards he wouldn't sign but I don't recall exactly. He is VERY infrequent with his appearances though (usually just FanFests) and does not sign TTM. From the Traded set, Alan Wiggins is very difficult, as he was a tough in-person signer to begin with and died of AIDS in 1989. He was out of baseball and living a somewhat transient lifestyle by the time that card was issued. Last edited by dgo71; 02-23-2015 at 05:34 PM. |
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Forgot about old Mel Hall. Yeah, he's in for life if I'm not mistaken, and he was never overly easy to begin with. I can see his cards carrying a decent price tag for set collectors. Moore died in 1989 and was kind of a surly signer the last couple years after never really getting over the 1986 AL Playoff game that he blew. I think the price of his card is simply from the popularity of the set, his other cards are usually more reasonable, unless it's a late issue 1988 or 1989 card. I actually have an in-person Pulido that I would be willing to part with. I have a friend whose wife is from Mexico, and he travels there 2-3 times a year for baseball events and games. He went to a Mexican MLB Alumni event a month or two ago that a ton of former MLB players attended and got me a couple of Pulido's 87T signed, along with some other guys who have been MIA for years. If you're interested, PM me with your email address and I can send you a scan. |
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Wiggins died in '91, but still...
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Any chance you could help on a Noe Munoz?
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He just won't sign that card
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I had a failure from Lasorda today. I'm disappointed.
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Well, I can at least enjoy today's successes as opposed to yesterday's failures. Neil Allen and Rich Yett came in. It's 222 now.
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Am I the only one who would love to see scans of these?
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Signed 1953 Topps set: 264/274 (96.35 %) |
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Weird. They can upload on Blowout. I can just link you the pictures from there.
Last edited by Topps206; 02-06-2016 at 11:36 AM. |
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I got a personalized from Paul Zuvella today and I got Steve Balboni on Saturday, though that was bent.
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Wow. So I sent in a mail order for the St. Louis Show this weekend for a couple of players and Jorge Orta won't be attending. It looks like he has cancelled appearances before. Something has happened with his new agent and cut off contact, now he might've left the country.
I don't know the situation, but I'm disappointed. Anybody else have trouble with Orta before? |
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Got Sandberg and Rick Anderson today.
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