Anyone real familiar with Karl Spooner sig?

[JimStinson]

Looks the way its supposed to look, Strange story on Spooner. He was always a good signer. Then after his playing career he VANISHED collectors did not know where he went or if he was alive or dead.

Then Brooklyn collector Bill Zekus who was living in Florida got a tip that Spooner was working in a warehouse in Vero Beach not too far from where Bill was living it was the late 1970's (I think) so he took an arm load of stuff over to the warehouse and according to Bill , Spooner said "How in the hell did you find me here ?" He said that Spooner signed all his stuff and Bill asked him if he could share his address and Spooner agreed it was OK. So collectors began to write to him in the mail and were actually getting his autograph.

Then for some strange reason the signature completely changed , Spooner who even in his playing days signed small began to sign big and the signature looked drawn, these are generally considered to have been signed by someone else , So you'll sometimes see two completely different versions of his autograph.
Shortly after in 1984 he died. So thats why he is still considered one of the toughest autographs of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers
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[HexsHeroes]

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who managed to get a quantity of 3x5 index cards signed by Karl Spooner.
I was fortunate to acquire afew of those 3x5s from James through his regular
monthly mail bid auctions in The Autograph Review publication.

[JimStinson]

Makes sense Bill and MacAlister were friends so he would have been one of the first people he passed along the info to
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[ss]

Here are two more exemplars, one with a Vero Beach address, and the other must be the large version Jim mentioned.

[mr2686]

Thanks guys for the info, exemplars and stories. I love this board!!

[Republicaninmass]