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Posted By: DJ

I have owned hundreds of signed cards from the 1930's and 1940's, and only a couple of signed T206's. I think there was more energy geared toward obtaining signatures via the mail and at the stadium back then, as it wasn't really an idea back in the 1900's and even later in life when the players were still living. Nobody thought "Hey, Arlie Latham is still alive, I have to find him and get him to sign this card." I have seen a couple of Ty Cobb's and a Cy Young, but never seen anyone like Charley Carr or Bill Burns.

In the late 1970's and early 1980's, a lot of address books became available and players like Fred Parent and Rube Marquard (the two I have owned and seen most often) were probably asked a few times to sign their T206's and some collector's went that direction to get signatures of the shaky veterans via the mail or at events.

DJ