Anyone Else Collecting a 1987 Topps Autographed Set?

[Topps206]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Ok, so I have a very slight complaint about this thread...

I would appreciate it much more if you posted pictures of each card, so that we can more follow your journey.

Just telling us that you got something is a bit of a "big deal, I got stuff today too" kind of thing. As long as you're going to tell us that you got it, show it to us.

Also, are all 792 cards "signable"? If I remember correctly, there are 6 checklist cards in this set, and they do not have pictures on them, so really there are only 786 cards in the set (or less) to get signed. Your total at the moment should be 264 / (amount that can get signed).

See, I just helped knock 6 cards off you want list.

You're welcome.

Doug

This comes across as a bit high and mighty to me.

Checklists are numbered and count, so do Team Leaders.

Also, I did post before but I can't do it from my phone and my laptop doesn't run like it used to.

[MacDice]

For the team cards I would get Peter Uberoth to sign them since he was the commissioner. In the past I have see a lot of set collectors get Sy Berger to sign them.

I am working on a 57 set and thankful the checklists aren't numbered cards

[Topps206]

I've gotten checklists signed but just by players on the checklist.

[Republicaninmass]

Try finding those pesky managers from the 1952 topps set, or umpires from 1955!

Thanks for the updates

[MacDice]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

Try finding those pesky managers from the 1952 topps set, or umpires from 1955!

Thanks for the updates

Try finding a 1957 Dodgers Sluggers card signed by Furillo, Dodgers, Campy and Snider...

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by MacDice

Try finding a 1957 Dodgers Sluggers card signed by Furillo, Dodgers, Campy and Snider...

I passed on one, even though it had a, get this, 'non-malicious secretarial' Campanella. It was the closest I've ever seen. Also, it has been in my radar to find signed for 20+ years!

[egri]

Worng thread, sorry.

[Topps206]

I forgot I sent to Ed Hearn. Back today makes it 268.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by MacDice

For the team cards I would get Peter Uberoth to sign them since he was the commissioner. In the past I have see a lot of set collectors get Sy Berger to sign them.

I am working on a 57 set and thankful the checklists aren't numbered cards

There is a turn back the clock card of Clemente. So you really can't have a complete signed set.

[MacDice]

Originally Posted by rats60

There is a turn back the clock card of Clemente. So you really can't have a complete signed set.

Roberto Clemente Jr signed?

[sbfinley]

For my sets I have a key player from the checklist sign or someone interesting. Sy Berger was a popular checklist signature while he was living. My friend had key political figures from his set years sign the checklists. The possibilities are really open for it. Vera Clemente is a popular choice for for that TBTC issue. Really, saying it's incompletable because a specific card can't be signed is like saying the monster can't be completed because you'll likely never own a Wagner, Plank, or Doyle. You can collect to the extent you please.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Topps206

This comes across as a bit high and mighty to me.

Checklists are numbered and count, so do Team Leaders.

Also, I did post before but I can't do it from my phone and my laptop doesn't run like it used to.

I certainly don't mean to come across as high and mighty.

I see that leaders cards would be signed, I assume by the players pictured, but who would sign the checklist card? If it's any player listed on the card, then don't you need to get a card signed by every player in oder to have a complete set?

Ultimately, I'm just asking for pictures of your new pickups, instead of a list of what you are picking up. If that comes across as high and mighty, well sorry.

Doug "watching you all from atop my mountain" Goodman

[Scott Garner]

How's the view up there, Doug?

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

How's the view up there, Doug?

I spent 14 hours stuck at a truckstop in Rock Springs, Wyoming a couple days ago, when I-80 was closed in both directions, the view was crap.

[Topps206]

I guess we just have our own personal rules. I have my own.

#1 Get the player to sign their base card.

#2 At least one person depicted must sign a Leaders card.

#3 One player on the checklist must sign it.

#4 Deceased players do count in helping me toward my set. While I will not obsess over them, they are important and would have my sights set for a decent price.

So maybe to you personally that criteria wouldn't work if you did a set. With my criteria, that's how I have the number I do.

[mantleman]

Two new ones in the mail today!!!

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by mantleman

Two new ones in the mail today!!!

Ed Hearn's brother Tom was my old neighbor. I had no idea for the longest time that his brother was Ed Hearn. We went to a Husker basketball game and at halftime the conversations steered towards major league baseball and I mentioned how much I hated the 1986 New York Mets (I'm a lifelong Red Sox fan). That's when I learned his brother was on that team.

[Topps206]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

I certainly don't mean to come across as high and mighty.

I see that leaders cards would be signed, I assume by the players pictured, but who would sign the checklist card? If it's any player listed on the card, then don't you need to get a card signed by every player in oder to have a complete set?

Ultimately, I'm just asking for pictures of your new pickups, instead of a list of what you are picking up. If that comes across as high and mighty, well sorry.

Doug "watching you all from atop my mountain" Goodman

Any player on the card can sign a checklist. Same for Leaders if pictured.

Much as I'd love to provide pictorial proof, it's complicated.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Topps206

Any player on the card can sign a checklist. Same for Leaders if pictured.

Much as I'd love to provide pictorial proof, it's complicated.

I'm not looking for "proof", I believe you, I just like seeing pictures of stuff when people get things. If you can't, then you can't, not that big of a deal.

When I collected Topps cards, I considered a complete set to include all variations (black & red backs for the 1952 lo numbers, as an example).

Using similar logic, if I collected autographed sets (which I don't) I would consider a checklist to be a card that didn't need to be signed, because it doesn't have a picture. IF I was going to get a player listed on the card to sign it, then my complete-ist nature would cause me to need a card signed by EACH player listed, which obviously would get cumbersome (to say the least).

For cards that have a deceased player, I would consider them as cards that don't need to be signed to have a "complete" set, but getting somebody related to sign it would be a bonus.

But I could be wrong, there are no "rules", I understand that,
Doug "still sitting on my mountain" Goodman