August Autograph Pickups

[theshleps]

Starting a few years back some players won't sign index cards. That is why people bring custom generic cards with light backgrounds of colors and baseball scenes and some won't even sign those

[Klrdds]

Four additions to my collection this month:
1. A full name check of Monford (Monte) Irvin
2. A TLS with a full name signature of Osborne (Ozzie) Smith on his company's letterhead. I have never seen a letter let alone a full name signature before for him, so I had to pick this up.
3. A TLS of Hank Greenberg on Indians letterhead, Not too hard to find, but one had been on my list for a while.
4. A HNS of Ed Barrow. Again not hard to find, but a nice addition to go along with my Barrow TLS on Yankees letterhead. Interestingly, I remember when this item was last auctioned and I was the under- bidder. Everything always comes around again eventually it seems like in this hobby.

[Scott Garner]

Nice pickups, Kevin!

[Klrdds]

Thank You Scott

[tazdmb]

Very nice, as usual

[Klrdds]

Thanks taz,
Personally, I like the Francisco Lindor autographed ticket and the story behind it. They will remember that forever, sometimes that is much rarer and more valuable than buying an autograph.

[daves_resale_shop]

Pretty excited to unexpectedly add this one to the collection!
1931 who's who album page (made a slight mistake here... the photo is actually from a 1933 who's who Book)

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by theshleps

Starting a few years back some players won't sign index cards. That is why people bring custom generic cards with light backgrounds of colors and baseball scenes and some won't even sign those

So absurd. What color do they think a ball is? It would be just as easy to photoshop a signature off a white ball as an index card. Or anyone even slightly skilled in Photoshop can easily remove a background. WHat do they think is going to happen? Someone photoshopping signatures onto checks? Are there any cases of this actually happening?

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by Mr. Zipper

So absurd. What color do they think a ball is? It would be just as easy to photoshop a signature off a white ball as an index card. Or anyone even slightly skilled in Photoshop can easily remove a background. WHat do they think is going to happen? Someone photoshopping signatures onto checks? Are there any cases of this actually happening?

Since when have professional ballplayers been the sharpest tools in the shed?

Besides, these days players treat "autographs" and "signatures" as two quite different things. An autograph is a highly stylized, completely illegible glyph which they think looks cool. A signature is their actual name, is (at least somewhat) legible, and is used on legal documents.

So what the hell are they worried about?

[theshleps]

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[Lordstan]

Originally Posted by theshleps

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HOLY COW!! Nice. You've had some really nice additions recently.

[theshleps]

These aren't August acquisitions but am taking them to my safe deposit box
The Dodgers card I've had for a long time. Bad contrast but signed by Jackie Robinson, Koufax, Hodges, Gilliam, Snider, Spooner, Hoak, Alston, Amoros. Have some for some other teams too (not Yankees) but this oe is the best22014cards.jpg

[parker1b2]

Picked up a Maddux Southland Plastics statue as an addition to my HOF auto collection.

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[Jasonxmay]

This was my end of the win-win trade the Michael mentioned a few pages back.