Jackie Robinson autographed cards

[packs]

I like cards as a medium. I think they also set some players apart when the hobby is crowded with their stuff. I'm thinking of a player like Mantle who signed a million baseballs. It's a lot harder to find him on a card.

[Snapolit1]

Also a Jackie Leaf card signed in 1947 outside Ebbetts Field is amazingly cool, a Jackie Leaf card signed in 1970 is significantly less cool. Someone just took a really nice old card and asked him to sign it. He had it in his hand for, oh, 10 seconds? But cards run the hobby.

[Seven]

Originally Posted by packs

I like cards as a medium. I think they also set some players apart when the hobby is crowded with their stuff. I'm thinking of a player like Mantle who signed a million baseballs. It's a lot harder to find him on a card.

I think also that has a lot to do with the sentiment around players signing cards, and how that has changed over the years. I made a thread about this a while back. Where people wouldn't get their cards signed because of the concept of "defacing" the card, or it becoming less valuable.

I can't remember which board member posted about it, in the thread. But they told the story about how someone at a show,a while back, brought a 1952 Topps, Andy Pafko, to Mr. Pafko to have it signed at a show. Pafko tried to talk the guy out of it, everyone tried to talk the guy out of it, guy wasn't having it. Pafko reluctantly signed it, everyone cringed. Looking back on it, that was probably the smartest move in the book. But who would've thought, that at the time? Hindsight is 20/20

As a Mantle Collector, pretty much everything you buy with a Mantle signature on it, goes for a premium. A Nice Bobby Brown Baseball with his clean signature? $600.

A crisp Mantle Signature on, lets say, a 1954 Red Heart issue? One just sold in August of 2023, for 10K at heritage.

[Republicaninmass]

I can't fathom how anyone could consider a letter in the same league as a signed gum card. The sheer difficulty of having/finding a card to be signed vs a literally a blank piece of paper, not to mention eye appeal.

Content shomn-tent, gimme signed cards all day long over any other medium

[Snapolit1]

Sheer diffiicilty? Every signed letter is by definition a one of a kind item!!!



QUOTE=Republicaninmass;2402363]I can't fathom how anyone could consider a letter in the same league as a signed gum card. The sheer difficulty of having/finding a card to be signed vs a literally a blank piece of paper, not to mention eye appeal.

Content shomn-tent, gimme signed cards all day long over any other medium[/QUOTE]

[bleeckerstreetcards]

no denying that letters can be defined as one-of-a-kind based on content. the way I look at it is I'm a card collector, not a letter collector. and if I want a 1950 Bowman Jackie Robinson for my collection, I'd much rather have one of the 8 signed examples that he held and appreciated and has a story of a fan/kid getting it signed behind it over most any other version of that card.

in the 50B case, you can get a PSA 8 for ~$25k which is a pop 48. or I can put that money towards one of his signed copies. it's a decision we all have to make, but if I'm going to collect his cards that's the version I want. if I also want to collect letters and other autographs then there's a treasure trove over there too, I just don't enjoy those as much as a card.

[Exhibitman]

I've seen a comparatively large # of Exhibit cards of Robinson sold in the last few years. I've been tempted to go after one but I am kind of leery. I never saw one for sale then all of a sudden it seems like there is one in every auction, and the signatures are not the typical nice, smooth ones. They just don't sit right with me.

[Carter08]

Originally Posted by bleeckerstreetcards

no denying that letters can be defined as one-of-a-kind based on content. the way I look at it is I'm a card collector, not a letter collector. and if I want a 1950 Bowman Jackie Robinson for my collection, I'd much rather have one of the 8 signed examples that he held and appreciated and has a story of a fan/kid getting it signed behind it over most any other version of that card.

in the 50B case, you can get a PSA 8 for ~$25k which is a pop 48. or I can put that money towards one of his signed copies. it's a decision we all have to make, but if I'm going to collect his cards that's the version I want. if I also want to collect letters and other autographs then there's a treasure trove over there too, I just don't enjoy those as much as a card.

My view is a letter is more likely to be real. Tend to think 4 of those 8 cards are fakies.

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Sheer diffiicilty? Every signed letter is by definition a one of a kind item!!!



QUOTE=Republicaninmass;2402363]I can't fathom how anyone could consider a letter in the same league as a signed gum card. The sheer difficulty of having/finding a card to be signed vs a literally a blank piece of paper, not to mention eye appeal.

Content shomn-tent, gimme signed cards all day long over any other medium

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It's a blank piece of paper!

[vthobby]

Every thread needs a pic!

I also like to think of a player's thoughts when signing certain items and you can see by the boldness of the pen that he must have felt a lot of pride by signing this Hall of Fame Postcard!

It REALLY pops!

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[Snapolit1]

That’s a great signature indeed.

[rand1com]

Originally Posted by vthobby

Every thread needs a pic!

I also like to think of a player's thoughts when signing certain items and you can see by the boldness of the pen that he must have felt a lot of pride by signing this Hall of Fame Postcard!

It REALLY pops!

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Looks to be very undergraded to me at an 8.