Recent Pickup - 1959 Yankees Lineup Card w/Mantle, Berra, Ford, Stengel
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Anyone know how common these are? Thoughts on value?
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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.
Cool item
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I wanted to caution you that that Stengel signature might not be his. Very often one of the coaches would fill these cards out and sign the managers name. It might be worth while to authenticate the half signature because if that card is filled out entirely in Casey's hand I would only assume that would increase the value some.
As to if this is the umpires copy, I would think it probably was. I dont think there is a rhyme or reason as to who gets what copy but it was my understand that the umpires always get the originals. They might have done things differently back in the 50's but I know at least in the 80's when I worked in MLB the umpires received the originals.
Here are a few examples of some of the stuff I have.
This 1st one is copies of the opposing team's lineup given to the visiting team and the visiting team manager's copy for himself. This was a game in which it was played at Wrigley Field when Peter Rose was a manager for the Reds. These were Pete Rose's copies that he left on the bench after the game that I was able to grab before the grounds crew came to clean the dugout.
This next set is umpires copies of these lineup cards between the Giants and The Cubs in 1986. I like the umpire copies because you get the original hand writing and signatures of the managers....providing they fill out their own lineup cards.
The next bunch is the type of lineup card they usually show you on television as these are the ones taped to the dugout wall. These have changed somewhat since the onset of the memorabilia hype because I believe MLB prints a specific card for each game on the schedule. Todays dugout lineup cards are generic MLB lineup cards with pre-printed dates and teams on them. The ones I have were printed by the teams themselves and show a bit more character because almost every one of them was different in size and color.
I hope this helps a bit. Honestly, in terms of value I really have no idea. I want to say 200 to 300 bucks if this is Stengel's handwriting and less if its not......but I might be way off in that estimate. These items rarely come to the market so the value is truly determined by the market at the time of the sale.
I hope this all helps!! PM me or email me if I can be of some assistance. You have a great item there that would look cool framed with a boxscore of the game and cards or photos of the players in the game.
As an aside, I own over 100 lineup cards myself (mainly Orioles) and probably the one with the most historical significance would be the one from 05/30/82, which just happened to be Game ONE of Cal Ripken Jr.'s historical Consecutive Game Streak....It's also neat in that Toronto manager Bobby Cox, filled out a lineup card dated 1980 that afternoon..
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