Perez Steele
I've been a collector of the Perez Steele Post Card sets dating back to the 80's and I've long wished that Dick would start issuing the post cards again. From what I know, distribution appears to be the primary issue since Dick is still painting each new inductee in the same style. After much thought, I've come up with the following rough approach that could get the cards back in production.
*Get Topps (or Upper Deck!) to re-issue each Hall of Fame post card in traditional baseball card size (i.e. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2). Cards would need to be of high quality and they shouldn't run the presses non-stop. This would give today's collectors an introduction to these paintings and the Hall of Famers from yesteryear. Instead of a post card back, have someone do a nice write up of each electee.
*I assume the card companies would create those damn parallell sets, but that wouldn't be needed...keep it simple.
*Each wax box would include one or two "box toppers" in a sealed envelope or even a "pack" of the post card(s) for an electee beginning with what would have been Series 16...and they should be numbered x/10,000.
*the down side is folks wouldn't be able to keep their set completely numbersd, but the upside is we'd be able to fill in the gaps on our set since production stopped.
Anyone still have an appetite for these post cards and does the above seem realistic? Thanks in advance for any feedback...Matt
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M@tt McC@arthy
I collect Hal Chase, Diamond Stars (PSA 5 or better), 1951 Bowman (Raw Ex or better), 1954 Topps (PSA 7 or better), 1956 Topps (Raw Ex or better), 3x5 Hall of Fame Autographs and autographed Perez Steele Postcards. You can see my collection by going to http://www.collectorfocus.com/collection/BigSix.
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