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Originally Posted by MooseDog
I wish I still had it, but I got Sandberg on a 3x5 in spring training in 1982 and you could read every letter.
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The early Sandberg autos differ so much from what he is signing now it is almost hard to tell it is the same guy signing. Even his "relaxed" signature looks like a rushed version. As you said, his early sig you could read every letter.
As a side note, if you see an early Sandberg you might want to be wary as a few of the marketing guys for the Cubs at that time (1982 to 88 or so) were very adept at signing Sandberg's name. I saw them with my own eyes signing 8 X 10's and baseballs to give to clients and others. Their versions of a Sandberg sig were dead on to my untrained eye at that time.