Collecting Signed Personal Checks?

[John V]

I wonder how the price and value of vintage checks will be affected by modern day banking's "check Imaging" in which cancelled checks are not returned in your monthly statement? What we have available now in paper form, is about it. Few if any modern checks will be entering the collector market.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Unfortunately, thanks to modernizations in technology and thought, two highly poplular methods of collecting are on the virge of extinction: checks and 3X5s. I'll miss the latter even more. At least some players who refuse to sign blank 3X5s will sign custom 3X5s with their pictures printed on them. It doesn't have the same feel, however.

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by JBirkholm

Unfortunately, thanks to modernizations in technology and thought, two highly poplular methods of collecting are on the virge of extinction: checks and 3X5s. I'll miss the latter even more. At least some players who refuse to sign blank 3X5s will sign custom 3X5s with their pictures printed on them. It doesn't have the same feel, however.

Why would a player refuse to sign a blank 3x5 card?

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

A few years ago, somebody came up with the notion that blank 3X5s could be used to assist in identity theft. By the time current players reach A or AA ball, it seems like a handler or agent has already instructed them against the perceived evils of 3X5s. Ridiculous.

[HRBAKER]

Jodi is right. I have seen Single A players who may not ever sniff the majors tell people in Spring Training, "I've been told not to sign those."

[Big Dave]

Why won't players sign 3 x 5s now?

[scmavl]

I only have one, from Smoky Joe Wood.

[Jay Wolt]

Besides signed personal checks, endorsement & payroll checks are neat too!

[Jay Wolt]

Here's a pair of Catfish Hunter payroll/expense checks