Topps Player Autograph Runs

[jimtb]

I got hooked on player runs a couple of years ago. A couple that I have posted online:
Al Kaline: http://www.kalinescorner.com/al-kaline-autographs.html
Jack Morris:http://www.kalinescorner.com/jack-morris.html

[mrmopar]

Very nice!

Originally Posted by jimtb

I got hooked on player runs a couple of years ago. A couple that I have posted online:
Al Kaline: http://www.kalinescorner.com/al-kaline-autographs.html
Jack Morris:http://www.kalinescorner.com/jack-morris.html

[btcarfagno]

I am working on Willie Stargell but have a long way to go!

Tom C

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by jimtb

I got hooked on player runs a couple of years ago. A couple that I have posted online:

Jim,

Very nice! I especially like Kaline signed cards; he has such a nice signature. Did you purposely get them all in sharpie? I think I'm going to try a run of Brooks Robinson cards, but unsure which way to go in regard to what he used to sign. I have a few pen and a couple where he used a sharpie. It would be nice to have them uniform.

[jimtb]

Kaline was a great signer TTM for many years - always with a beautiful signature and always in Sharpie. His fee was very reasonable. That's how I obtained about 70% of those autos. Over the last couple of years his signature has become very flat and he is somewhat erratic in his signing habits.
Brooks has that really big sig on cards that would look great in Sharpie, but you need to do what makes you happy. Like Kaline, Brooks isn't getting any younger...

[Mark70Z]

Yes; I've noticed some of the recent Kaline signed pieces are no where near as nice as they used to be. I guess what can you expect at his age. Of course the one's you have already are the way I remember how he signed. I have his signature on an 8X10 w/Brooks pictured (common picture). I also have a couple other 8X10's of Kaline autographs that I received in person at a show.

I'll have to dig through what I have of Brooks already and start a checklist and start the process. I've never been much of getting cards signed in the past, but seeing some of the autograph runs of players it has me motivated to at least do a side project and start picking them up. I know I've picked up a few cards through the years when I would hit a dry spell in collecting, but don't have too many. The good thing about Brooks autographs is that he signed about everything so to find them is not that hard at all it's just a matter of what I'm willing to pay and the condition of the card itself. I like to have at least a decent looking card as well as autograph.

Thanks for sharing part of your collecting; appreciate you doing that for us collectors.