February autograph pickups

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

What is Ron's name?

[gashouse34]

Originally Posted by I Only Smoke 4 the Cards

What is Ron's name?

His last name is Keurajian.

[earlywynnfan]

Jim Stinson has one on ebay right now.

[mighty bombjack]

Wow, I have not looked at this thread in a while. Funny how it turned into a HOF auto collecting thing. There are amazing collections here to be sure, always fun to look at and discuss.

I have 240 different HOF autos, and I am someone who likes diversity in my collection. I do have a few baseballs and love the aesthetics of them, but I prefer flats for various reasons. Within that category, I like everything. Letters and contracts are at the top, but cards, postcards, caches, photos, and everything else are more than welcome. My Hack Wilson is on sheet music for a short lived Cubs song. I have several cuts as well.

I am also a big book collector and have over 100 signed baseball books, with some overlap with the HOF collection. My Johnny Evers, Babe Ruth, Albert Spalding, Connie Mack, and Billy Evans autos are in their books.

Thanks for posting some of those toughies, kirdds. Post more whenever you can, please!

[gregr2]

Originally Posted by mighty bombjack

Wow, I have not looked at this thread in a while. Funny how it turned into a HOF auto collecting thing. There are amazing collections here to be sure, always fun to look at and discuss.

Maybe we should start a thread dedicated to HOF autograph collections!

[bender07]

Originally Posted by gregr2

Maybe we should start a thread dedicated to HOF autograph collections!

There are a few out there. Use search.

[Klrdds]

Collecting autographed books never really entered my mind, but that seems like a great way to kill the proverbial two birds with one stone by getting the autograph of the player as a player and author as well as getting an antique and rare book dealing with the national pastime.
Do you know how many players authored books? Not counting maybe the modern era. I know every superstar from the 70s onward seems to have done a book.

[bgar3]

A number of the great early baseball books were done by hall of famers or ghost writers for them, including Chadwick, Evers, Ruth, Spalding, Cochrane, Harris, Mathewson, Ward, Comisky, Anson, White, and Cobb One of the best is Spalding's, America's National Game, which can be found inscribed, often to a person with significant baseball association. I totally agree with your reasoning.