Anyone collect signed checks?

[homerunhitter]

Those are very cool! I’m just starting out getting the easier guys first but hope to one day get the top 5! Thank you for sharing. They gives me great inspiration as I’m starting out on this new project!


Thanks Jim, I will wait for your DM!!! Thank you!

Let’s see some more guys!!!

[homerunhitter]

Let’s see some more guys!

[Gary Dunaier]

I've got a few Ralph Kiner checks; I'll share two of them here.

This one, from 1983, has not one but four examples of his signature; two on the front, and two on the back as an endorsement.




This one, from 1979, is a favorite because of the unusual way he wrote out the amount of the check in words.

[Gary Dunaier]

Here are a couple of Casey Stengel checks that ought to be of particular interest to Mets fans.

First, a check dated 9/23/62, made out to the ballboy. 9/23/62 was the final Mets home game of their inaugural season, so this may have been an end-of-season gratuity. Interesting to note that Stengel apparently misspelled the ballboy's name, because it was corrected in the endorsement on the back.



This October 1961 Casey Stengel check makes reference to the New York Mets six months before the team ever played a game! It was written 10/12/61, two days after the expansion draft in which the players who would comprise the inaugural 1962 Mets were selected, and refers to the club in the lower left where he wrote "N.Y. Expenses N.Y. Mets."

[Scott Garner]

Here are a few tough HOF no-hit pitcher signed checks from my personal collection.

The Nolan Ryan check was sold to another HOF collector a number of years ago.
It's especially cool because it was written on Nolan's Express Bank check
The Ryan and Feller personal checks are very tough. Not exactly a check, but the Tom Seaver signed travelers check would be a toughee as well.

I have a few others that are fairly common: Jesse Haines, Ted Lyons, Warren Spahn, Carl Hubbell (post stroke), Hoyt Wilhelm, Bob Gibson, Jim Palmer, Rollie Fingers

[Cooptown]

Two quick thoughts:

Not sure if any of you are on social media, but Darren Rovell collects checks and posts them occasionally.

Around 2010 or so, I saw some folks getting TTMs back from Marvin Miller with a donation to BAT. I wrote him a really nice letter, talked about my Dad being the treasurer of his union, wrote out a check payable to BAT and enclosed a card. He returned the card unsigned with the check and wrote “i am not an agent for BAT” on the check with the initials MM. You could tell he wrote it with his signature “swoosh” Ms. It would never pass authentication but I think its a cool piece.

[homerunhitter]

Thanks guys for all the photos and inputs!

what are your guys thoughts on checks that are signed on the back of the check (for deposit by the player) instead of the front of the check? do you add them to your collection if they are signed on the back. I ask because im noticing for some players thats all that is currently available. thanks