I was signed pre war when signed pre war wasnt cool

[milkit1]

Haha that's great! I actually like your herman better!

[daves_resale_shop]

Fantastic Photo and story.

Thanks for sharing Sean!

I think I owned the same sweater back in the day, but mine was in a husky size!

[milkit1]

Haha I was swimming in mine!

[MacDice]

Very cool. I wish I would have that pre-war was cool back in the day. At least I got Rick Ferrell to sign a Goudey for me.



I got Charlie Gehringer to sign a bunch of 1960 and 1961 Fleers but never thought to send him a Goudey.

Also got Billy Herman to sign a few 1954 Topps and 1955 Topps coaches cards but also passed on getting him to sign Goudeys.

[itjclarke]

Cool stuff Sean, your collection is awesome, and even cooler knowing you got much of it in person. I went to lots of shows as a kid. Wish I'd gone your route though, or at least dabbled in pre-war, but I was like many others and getting as many 50's-60's HOFer sigs on whatever cards I could scrounge up.

I do still have some nice cards signed by guys like Gibson, Brock, Carlton, Koufax, Musial, Snider, etc from back then. It was always fun going with my dad because these guys were his heroes.

[milkit1]

thanks guys. Its was quite scary handling a fragile baseball card to an 80+ year old man. Whenever I showed my grandfather my goudeys he would turn those 9 card pages like my two year old turns pages in a book. My reaction was: :O
Still no harm ever came. My dad had the idea of sending these photos in to have signed and add "my #1 fan". I wish I had gotten Leo Durocher but so glad he did that with Billy Herman. Amazing to think that my son was born 98 years after him which means:
Billy Herman is to my son age wise what Cy Young is to me lol

[Cooptown]

I am a little bit offended to see this! Just kidding, although I honestly thought I was always Billy Herman's #1 fan - even though I was born in 1977. You see, Billy Herman married a woman from my hometown - Rome, NY. He even mentions it in his HOF speech (which in today's day and age would be considered an introduction): http://baseballhall.org/node/11189

I am probably going to screw this up, but Billy married one of my cousin's ex-wife's relative. So I always use to tell people growing up (when I was like 8-12 or so) that I was a distant relative of a HOFer.

I never got a Goudey signed, but have a ton of signed Billy Herman signed items. From what I remember, he was an incredibly nice man and very fan friendly.