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Originally Posted by doug.goodman
Why not? Are there guys in the set that died in 1981 or 1982?
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Steve Macko passed in late 1981 so the Cubs Future Stars card is very difficult to complete or find completed, but not impossible and a couple examples are in the market.
The Mariners card is impossible to complete IMO and doesn't exist in the known market. Rick Anderson passed in 1989 and was reclusive after he left baseball in 1981 although legend states he was sorting fan mail at the moment of his death. The number of copies in the market with his signature roughly equal about 20-25, but in the past couple of years I've come to believe that the majority of copies in the market including authenticated examples were either signed by current Tigers' pitching coach Rick Anderson - or more likely - forged using the model of the wrong Rick Anderson's signature. The card is impossible to complete because despite almost 15 years of searching I have never seen, nor met someone claiming to have seen, the Mariners card with both Anderson and Rodney Craig. Craig didn't pass until 2013, but dealt with many personal issues after baseball. The closest I have ever seen the card to be completed is someone had a copy signed by Anderson and Biercewicz (although I believe the Anderson to have been a copy I described above) and was able to get the card to Craig's family in LA to be signed, but Craig was murdered the same week.