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My new auto project, 1981 Donruss Golf Set ALL DONE, PROJECT COMPLETE :)

Since I completed my 5 HOF signed card, I needed a new autograph project to work on while I'm always working on my signed rookie card collection. I decided to try my hand at the 1981 Donruss Golf set as it's small sized and most of the guys are still around, and golfers tend to be great signers compared to other sports.

I've gotten a pretty good startup, here is who I have already:

Tom Watson, Lee Trevino, Curtis Strange, Andy Bean, Ben Crenshaw, Jerry Pate, Craig Stadler, Ray Floyd, Larry Nelson, Jack Nicklaus, Bruce Lietzke, Doug Tewell, Don Pooley, Bob Gilder, Tom Kite, Leonard Thompson, Peter Jacobsen, Gil Morgan, Tom Purtzer, Jay Haas, Hale Irwin, Mark Lye, Dan Pohl, Fuzzy Zoeller, Dan Pohl Stat Leader, Lee Trevino Stat Leader, Tom Watson Stat Leader, George Burns, Bill Kratzert, Jeff Mitchell, Gibby Gilbert, Jack Newton, Ed Fiori, Jack Renner, Howard Twitty, Bill Rogers, David Graham, Dave Eichelberger, Mike Sullivan, Lanny Wadkins, Bob Murphy, Wayne Levi, Keith Fergus, Lon Hinkle, John Mahaffey, Scott Simpson, Mike Reid, Phil Hanc&ck, Tom Weiskopf, Dan Halldorson, Jim Colbert, Hubert Green, Calvin Peete, Johnny Miller, George Archer, George Cadle, Charles Coody, Danny Edwards, Terry Diehl, DA Weibring, J.C. Snead, Jerry Pate Stat Leader, Jack Nicklaus Stat Leader, Ed Sneed, Jim Simons

The ones I still need are:

NONE, I'M FINISHED image

Does anyone know if any of the guys that I haven't got yet will pose a particular problem? In other words, are they dead, refuse to sign, hard to find, etc.

If anyone has one or more of the ones I need available, just let me know if you want to sell and if you'll sell for a reasonable price. I know there are a lot on ebay, but I'm not paying the $10-12 per card for the common people like that seller is asking. I've only spent on average about $4 a piece for the ones I have so far (except for Nicklaus). I do have an extra Nicklaus, but I'd have to get a LOT of the common guys that I don't have yet in exchange if someone wanted to trade, or I'd probably trade for the Nicklaus Stat Leader as well

Mike

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭
    George Archer is dead. Most everyone else is gettable by mailing

    NAME
    c/o PGA Tour
    112 PGA Tour Bl.
    Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082

    Oh, and on second viewing, Jim Colbert and Johnny Miller do not sign TTM. Johnny is great in person but you can really only see him at tournaments that NBC covers.
  • Good Luck on the set Mike!
    Dan
  • fandangofandango Posts: 2,622
    A great undertaking! GoodLuck!

    Your passion for Auto's may be close to unrivaled!!!!!
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added pictures to the first thread, and am partnering with VitoCo to get the rest (He's sending out half, I'm sending out half, and we are splitting the ones we get back). Here's a couple that have come back in that joint project:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Here are the guys that VitoCo has added for me:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added a few more today to mine and Vito's sets:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added another today:

    Now I've got 38 and need 27 more. Off to a pretty good start!

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Got another return today. One for me, one for VitoCo:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Got a great return today for mine and Vito's sets.

    2009 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Lanny Wadkins

    This card will serve a dual purpose in my 81 Donruss set and part of my HOF signed rookies set

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭
    nice start already, this shouldn't take you long to finish. seems like a neat set
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • BugOnTheRugBugOnTheRug Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭
    I want John Daly to sign a Hooter's menu for me.
  • Morning,
    Mike, I just won a 81 Golf Donruss GIA pack I am goin' t bust when I get it, Why.....................Well because I have to.....It's an affliction!!image

    I'll let you know if I pull anything you need from your list. Is it up to date?

    Neil
    Actually Collect Non Sport, but am just so full of myself I post all over the place !!!!!!!
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Morning,
    Mike, I just won a 81 Golf Donruss GIA pack I am goin' t bust when I get it, Why.....................Well because I have to.....It's an affliction!!image

    I'll let you know if I pull anything you need from your list. Is it up to date?

    Neil >>



    Hi Neil,

    I appreciate the thought, but I have all the unsigned ones already. I'm just working on a signed set. Good luck with your pack! Hope you get a Nicklaus '10'.

    Mike
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Today's mail brought Wayne Levi

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added another one today via TTM for mine and Vitoco's sets:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added 2 more today TTM:

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  • GOOD STUFF MIKE

    you seem to never give up till your goal is complete....a collectors collector!


    congrats
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Got two more today TTM, getting closer and closer:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Here's two that VitoCo added for us today:

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    It's been awhile, but they are still trickling in. 50 down and 15 to go! Got this one today for mine and Vito's sets TTM:

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Mike ... are any of the 15 that you need very difficult? Any deceased players where you have to buy one already signed? It will be nice to get a complete set.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Mike ... are any of the 15 that you need very difficult? Any deceased players where you have to buy one already signed? It will be nice to get a complete set. >>



    Supposedly Miller won't sign TTM. I'm trying anyway. Simons and Archer are dead so I'll have to find those already signed. I've got a lead on an Archer, I just have to be patient with the seller and I'll probably end up with it.

    Mike
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Got two more today TTM. Getting ever closer image

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    I bought this one off of ebay tonight. I've currently got a TTM request out to him right now, but when I checked Sportscollectors.net , I realized that no one has reported a success there for him since 2005 so I decided not to hold my breathe on my TTM request and to go ahead and buy one for my set.

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Nice addition Mike ... keep 'em coming!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I bought this one off of ebay tonight. I've currently got a TTM request out to him right now, but when I checked Sportscollectors.net , I realized that no one has reported a success there for him since 2005 so I decided not to hold my breathe on my TTM request and to go ahead and buy one for my set.

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    Mike, I've had TTM success with him twice since them. They should come back eventually.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added a couple of relatively tough ones tonight. I'm glad to get the Archer, he was one of only two that are deceased now.

    George Archer (deceased)

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    Johnny Miller (won't sign TTM)

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Also picked this one up from an ebay seller for $8.00. I already had a Weiskopf, but it was signed on the back, I've sent him a couple TTM glued together to try and get one signed on the front, but I went ahead and picked this one up as I didn't want to miss out on it at a decent price.

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Mike ... three nice additions. CONGRATS! Enjoy them!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭
    Mike, my guess is that within the month, the outstanding ones on my end come back for the most part image You'll only be a few short then.
  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭✭
    Was just gonna ask how the Weiskopf project was coming. Seemed like a reach, but one heck of a good idea.
  • estangestang Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭
    FABULOUS! GREAT IDEA!
    Enjoy your collection!
    Erik
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Added 5 more today, George Cadle, Charles Coody, Danny Edwards, Terry Diehl, DA Weibring

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    WTG MIKE!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    The ones I still need are:

    Jim Simons, Ed Sneed, JC Snead, Jack Nicklaus Stat Leader, Jerry Pate Stat Leader.


    If you've got any of these cheap, let me know. 3 of them are relatively easy TTM, Sneed, Snead, and Jerry Pate, I'm just not patient image

    Simons is deceased and Nicklaus is obtainable TTM, just have to time it right.

    Mike
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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭
    Mike, I can all but guarantee that Snead, Sneed and Pate will be returned TTM shortly. I had mailed them (along with 2-3 others) a month apart from the others. If they're not here by a week from Friday, I'll be shocked.
  • It absolutely amazes me how quickly you have gotten to the end, better start thinking about your next project!
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It absolutely amazes me how quickly you have gotten to the end, better start thinking about your next project! >>



    Doran,

    I've got another project that I'm about to start as soon as the base set I'm using for it gets here from my ebay purchase. I'll post my thread once I start image It's a 60 card set of a lot of my former classmates.

    Mike
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    VitoCo got this one for me today TTM.

    J.C. Snead

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    Now, I only need 4 more:

    Jack Nicklaus Stat Leader, Jerry Pate Stat Leader, Ed Sneed, and Jim Simons (deceased)
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    VitoCo got me another TTM a couple days ago.

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    Only need 3 more, Jack Nicklaus Stat Leader, Ed Sneed, and Jim Simons (deceased).

    Plus, I'll be sending the checklist to former PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman (he was commish during the set's release) to try and get him on that. Might pick up a few more on the checklists as well depending on what I can find as far as notable golf events in 1981 from players that are not otherwised pictured in the set.

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  • BigRedMachineBigRedMachine Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭
    Mike,

    I don't think I've chimed in on this thread yet but wanted to say I think this set you're putting together is incredible!!

    Job well done.

    Best of luck with the last 3.

    Also, I don't think I've thank you yet for kicking my ass in fantasy a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for rising up out of the cellar to put a damper on
    my playoff hopes. image

    The Couples auto you sent me a few months ago is still one of my favorites, so this is as good a place as any to thank you again.

    Good luck, again, on the last three.

    shawn
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Mike,

    Any leads on the Simons card? Are there many around? Have you seen any up for auction? How much?
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Mike,

    Any leads on the Simons card? Are there many around? Have you seen any up for auction? How much? >>



    Doug,

    I currently have no leads on a Simons. I'm sure there are some around. VitoCo sent me this link where one was being sold as part of an auction lot but the minimum bid on the set wasn't met:

    Green Jacket Auctions

    I know of another guy that claims to have one but I haven't seen a scan yet as he's not interested in selling it. I personally haven't seen any others, but admittedly, I haven't really been looking in earnest for one. I figure the way I'll eventually find one is a casual collector will be selling a lot of the 81 Donruss signed and won't realize that one is hard to get and will just include it in the lot at a great price. It'll just be finding it first before the other collectors see it will be the hard part.

    Mike
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Finally another addition. Only 2 more to go, I'll get there, it's just a matter of time image

    1981 Donruss Jack Nicklaus Stat Leader

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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Was able to buy this one from a fellow collector. Only ONE MORE TO GO!!!

    Anyone know where to find a Jim Simons??

    Ed Sneed

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,478 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations Mike - good luck on the last one - never heard of him?
    Mike
  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭
    congrats on the progress!

    Have you reached out to Jim Stinson on the Jim Simons? Not sure where to find one -- but he was alive until 2005, so he shouldn't be too hard to find. His autograph is not an expensive one, although I can't speak as to the demand specifically for his autograph in this set.

    m
    I am actively buying MIKE SCHMIDT gem mint baseball cards. Also looking for any 19th century cabinets of Philadephia Nationals. Please PM with additional details.
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭


    << <i>congrats on the progress!

    Have you reached out to Jim Stinson on the Jim Simons? Not sure where to find one -- but he was alive until 2005, so he shouldn't be too hard to find. His autograph is not an expensive one, although I can't speak as to the demand specifically for his autograph in this set.

    m >>



    Thanks, I've used Stinson before, but didn't think about asking him for Simons. I'll give it a shot.

    Mike
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Does anyone know who the CEO or President of Donruss was back in 1981?? I'd like to get them to autograph one of the checklists.

    Thanks,

    Mike
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