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Originally Posted by 7nohitter (Post 1662171)

Just checked out your site....love it! What an intense amount of work!

Really glad you liked the site. It WAS an intense amount of work. Really really crazy. The scanning, the writing, getting and sizing all the photos to be uniform, all the data. Ugh it was a lot. Good news is I'm a teacher and just blitzed it last summer to get the darn site up and going.

Part of the joy of collecting is sharing. I was getting dulled and disinterested in collecting and figured the best way to renew my interest was to make a site so it's easily shared.

Maybe someday I end up selling the collection and including the site for the buyer.

Wish I knew more about SEO so the site could be improved.

Thanks for looking it the site. It means a lot to have collectors interact and enjoy it.

Mike Maddux came in c/o the Nationals.

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I'm sure some others with more knowledge can chime in on toughies, but there are a good number of deceased players from this set already. I won't catch them all, but looking at a checklist, these are guys I know have died: Howser, G. Carter, B. Diaz, D Smith, F Williams, D Moore, Boros, C Brown, T Phillips, S Anderson, Ruhle, Mahler, B Forsch, Fregosi, Welch, J Niekro, D Williams, Puckett, D Henderson, Bamburger, D. Lowry, Mauch, Gwynn, F Wills, Cerutti, Clutterbuck, Weaver, Pastore, Uribe, A Lopez, Scurry, Porter, Bergman, Quisenberry, Show, Flanagan & Andujar.

Ricky Wright is probably the #1 tough to impossible card for this set. For whatever reason, he is unwilling to sign that card and he seems to be harder than average to get in general for a common player.

Donnie Moore and Bo Diaz both died within a couple years after their appearances in the set.

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Originally Posted by BleedinBlue (Post 1662192)

How many of the cards from 1987 topps feature people who are now deceased? Are there any exceptionally difficult cards to find autographed? I'm not an autograph collector but am thoroughly impressed with these types of projects.

Gary Matthews came in from a mail order signing.

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Originally Posted by mrmopar (Post 1662960)

I won't catch them all, but looking at a checklist, these are guys I know have died: Howser, G. Carter, B. Diaz, D Smith, F Williams, D Moore, Boros, C Brown, T Phillips, S Anderson, Ruhle, Mahler, B Forsch, Fregosi, Welch, J Niekro, D Williams, Puckett, D Henderson, Bamburger, D. Lowry, Mauch, Gwynn, F Wills, Cerutti, Clutterbuck, Weaver, Pastore, Uribe, A Lopez, Scurry, Porter, Bergman, Quisenberry, Show, Flanagan & Andujar.

Add to this list:
Eddie Milner
Carmen Castillo
Chuck Tanner

Jeff Robinson is starting to sign, for those who need him. Mine came in today.

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John Kruk is signing c/o the Phillies as he's now an analyst for them. I sent mine out and got it back today.

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Just picked up a few 1987 Jeff Lehti signed cards

Harold Baines and Tim Anderson signed at a local Jewel today. I got Baines to sign his card for me.

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Have the following extra 87T available if any of you guys need these players. All obtained in person and in blue sharpie except for Backman.

Neil Allen
Wally Backman (black sharpie)
Scott Bradley
Pat Corrales
Richard Dotson
Johnny Grubb
Clint Hurdle
Terry Kennedy
Wayne Krenchicki
Ken Landreaux
Scott McGregor
Russ Morman
John Moses
Randy Niemann
Juan Nieves
Larry Parrish
Ted Power
Ray Searage
Joel Skinner
Nate Snell
Randy St Claire
Denny Walling
Gary Ward
Butch Wynegar