For those that collect Team auto's, what's your method?

[canjond]

I've been working on a 1960 Topps Yankees team signed set for years now. I'm pretty much done (except for the Maris/Mantle AS cards although I have the regular cards).

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Yes, some collectors will accept a tough signature on a baseball until a flat comes along. Others absolutely refuse to do so, mainly citing space/storage issues. I still have perhaps 20-25 players only in team-signed ball format, simply because the signatures in question have been impossible to procure otherwise. Yes, I'd rather have a flat, but sometimes it's a ridiculous notion to be so particular. Take what you can get; upgrade later. With a few years of careul study, you will soon learn who the truly tough signatures are.

[mr2686]

Jon, that's a great accomplishment on those 1960 Yankee cards. I happen to be biased for anything 1960 baseball since it was the year I was born. I started out my 1960 pirate project by trying to get as many of the 1960 signed topps Pirates cards as possible. I didn't do too bad...I have 24, but since I am doing the whole team, there are some players that didn't have a card and some I just couldn't find (or too much money...like Clemente or Umbricht). Fortunately I've found some 59 and 61 cards as well as 3x5's and cuts to go along with the 60's.

[HexsHeroes]

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. . . to fill in (temporarily, I hope) for a player's autograph in my collection. I kinda lump this idea with using a signed team sheet or postcard, which may have multiple autographs on it, to fill several names for me.

It can be a humbling hobby, especially when one views the diminutive scale of my collection versus those of other collectors. Jodi's efforts, and many like him, far surpass my small holding of autographs, as I seek to attain an example from each of the 560 or so former ballplayers to don a Detroit Tigers uniform, prior to 1946. But it is the meager reach of my task that also keeps me both hopeful and sane.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by HexsHeroes

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But it is the meager reach of my task that also keeps me both hopeful and sane.

Don't sell your efforts short, my friend! It only takes one look at this man's want list to understand what I mean. I think I might have three things on said list, and perhaps 10-15 others which are already sold.