Auto info help - Verion (Rube) Walker

[jgmp123]

Mike,

I think you just found a pretty lofty challenge there...Not finding much info on Verion signing...He passed away in 1971, so not a lot of auto's out there...

Best of luck!

[jgmp123]

I was able to dig this up...pretty steep price at $495

http://www.qualityautographs.com/app...d=item&id=8609

[mr2686]

Thanks James. Keatings site was one of the first I checked but for some reason when I type his name in it doesn't come up. It came up for me with your link and also if I put in just Walker. Very strange, but at least I know where one is now. May just have to suck it up and pay. Thanks again!

[mschwade]

Mike his name is Verlon, with an l not with an i.

[mr2686]

Thanks Matt. Yeah, I figured that out just a little while ago. I had gone out to the web to determine all the Cubs coaches from 1969 and it had
Verlon spelled wrong. Funny thing is, I couldn't find Charley Smith either (that's how it's spelled on Baseball-Reference.com) but then found a few autos and topps cards under the Charlie spelling. What's a poor collector to do? I'm actually getting pretty lucky with this project since I'm trying to find as many players on Cubs baseball cards as possible and there are quite a few, and was happy to find that coach Joe Amalfitano, although not having a 69 coaches card, did play for the Cubs a few years prior so I just picked up a nice signed 1964...so at least one thing went right today.

[mschwade]

Nice! Congrats on the pickup! What's the project?

[mr2686]

I'm calling it The Great Collapse...the 1969 Cubs. It originally was going to be all of the starting players on Topps cards and I was going to mat them around my Ron Santo signed 8x10 of the black cat walking past him and the dugout, but I just couldn't leave it at that and now will do something similiar only with all the players on the roster, and I'm also including about 4 baseballs as well. Thought this would be a fairly cheap project, but between Walker and Randy Bobb, the price got jacked up a little. Still not a bad project and one of the few where you can still have several cards signed through the mail if needed.