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Does anyone know or have a list of the toughest signed baseball cards to have been obtained? The player only had a super short window of a year or two to sign a card before their death, like Ken Hubbs, Foxx '61
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Since I am collecting a signed 1969 Topps set, I think Minnie Rojas. In 1969, he played the whole year out of the country, so you would not be able to get him in the states. In 1970, he was driving to Spring Training with his family and had a terrible automobile accident that left him paralized and killed one of his daughters. One person has told me he has a signed one, but I have yet to actually see one.
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There are really two aspects to this: rarity of the card and rarity of the signature. If you want a signature on a specific card--like I collect signed exhibit cards--then even a relatively common signer can be hard to find. Jack Dempsey is the most common prewar heavyweight champ but I've never seen a legitimate signed exhibit card.
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From my early collecting days, a '78 Topps Lyman Bostock and a '79 Topps Thurman Munson.
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For some reason Ricky Wright will not sign his 1987 Topps card and apparently nobody knows why.
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He probably has a stash of them somewhere for his family after he is gone.
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Good point, I would say not the rarity of the card, but just the signature on the card itself, like some of the examples mentioned. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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This is sad but I got a 2009 UD signed by Nick Adenhart. I got it just before he left spring training in 2009 in March. It had about a 3 week window to be signed.
I need Cobb on 60 and 61 Fleer which are very tough and a few 61 Scoops that I do not know if anyone has- Cobb, Cochrane and Gaedel |
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Brian Cole, a Mets prospect, passed away in a car accident leaving ST in 2001. A few of his '01 cards came out about 3-4 weeks prior. They aren't widely collected but incredibly tough to find signed. His '01 UD Victory and UD Vintage (3-player with Grant Roberts and Timo Perez) lead the list, as well as his '01 Topps RC with Chris Wakeland and Jason Conti
It's been talked about here I think that Doug Flynn almost never signs his 1986 Topps card. He did sign a small quantity (5 l think) for charity and I believe they sold in the $500 range. 1987 Topps Al Pulido is tough because he was back in Mexico by the time it was issued. Byron McLaughlin's 84 Topps is very difficult to find as he was on the run from the FBI when it was issued and fled the country soon after. I don't think anyone knows to this day where he is, though the rumor is he now lives in France. Others that are rare due to the player passing away soon after the card was issued: 1989 Score/Fleer Donnie Moore 2002 Topps Total Darryl Kile 2003 Topps Total Dernell Stenson 1987 Topps Dick Howser Last edited by dgo71; 12-18-2013 at 11:34 AM. |
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