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Old 12-22-2024, 06:38 AM
BillyCoxDodgers3B BillyCoxDodgers3B is offline
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There are of course some post-1960 multi-player RCs that are varying degrees of rare if you prefer a card that's fully signed by all depicted, as I do. The HOFer in question may not be difficult, but a lesser player who shares the card can sometimes be very vexing.

Then again, there are other people who only want the HOFer on the card. One that I don't understand in this case is the Koosman/Ryan. Some people prefer to have Ryan sign and write inscriptions dead center on a 2 player card. It looks wrong to me. Kooz is still alive! He's a great, affordable signer, and wasn't too shabby a pitcher in his own right, so to not have him properly complete the RC is sacrilege to me. It would make more sense if the second player was deceased, like on the Fergie or Carlton RCs. Still, I prefer players to "stick to their own real estate". Thankfully, most players usually do so on their own out of respect to the other player(s) on the card.

There's one multi player RC that doesn't bother me if the player signs dead center, and that's the Tony Perez. Perez is routinely careful about signing it so that he doesn't overly encroach on the two deceased players, but the card design itself features him at the top as the most prominent of the trio. Then again, dead center really is his allotted signing spot, if you will. This card has incredible colors, design and aesthetic and looks great signed dead center. It doesn't bother me as much that the other two guys can't sign it. It's a tremendously underrated card in my opinion.

Last edited by BillyCoxDodgers3B; 12-22-2024 at 06:52 AM.
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