Need help identifying a Campanella card

charliehustle14

Hey guys,

I have had this in my collection for probably 20 years and have no idea what it is. I haven't tried to ID it for a while. Any idea what set this is from? Possibly a collector issue? It's got his complete lifetime stats, so this has to be from after his playing days. Card measures 3 1/8" X 5".

Thanks!

Todd

begsu1013

58 volpe dodgers? the cookiemonster has it listed as the 58 career stat card

mrmopar

I believe it was used to mail something to fans requesting signatures and such, by Campy. I have several of them myself. I don't believe they date back to the 50s, but I don't have any evidence either way.

Dodgerfanjohn

I have a reprint that my grandmother obtained in the late 70's or early 80's when she used to volunteer at the LAPD Hollenbeck Station in East Los Angeles.

Thats where I got a lot of my Dodgers LAPD cards...they used to put out sets each year.

Dodgerfanjohn

Actually now that I think about it, I think it was in a fan club package. My grandmother did get it for me at an LAPD-Dodgers co event.

Dodgerfanjohn

Heres one of the police sets:

milbroco

I believe it was used to mail something to fans requesting signatures and such, by Campy. I have several of them myself. I don't believe they date back to the 50s, but I don't have any evidence either way.


I did not know about his condition, so in the early 1980's I wrote to him requesting his autograph and that is what I got. So I can say with confidence that the card is from the 1980's given out for autograph requests.

I wrote to many players in the early 1980's and got a great deal of responses including Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial. I am quite certain that they are all good but I will get them certified one day to make sure they are legit and not ghost signers. I still remember the first response I got was from George Foster and was disappointed the Johnny Bench was an auto pen.......at least I believe his is an auto pen.

Robert

charliehustle14

Hey, thanks for the responses, guys. I remember when and where I got this card now. A gentleman who used to work with my dad was a very serious baseball autograph collector and sent out for autographs through the mail from the '40's through the '80's. He amassed an amazing collection. He passed away about 1988 or 1989 and his widow knew my dad was into cards and memorabilia, so he helped her sell the collection to a major dealer at the time. After the sale, she found a huge box of leftover autographs, mostly on 3 x 5's, and she just told dad to keep them. He really had no interest in them, so he just gave them to me. This card was in that bunch of autographs. Based on what you guys are telling me, plus that this was in the middle of a bunch of TTM autographs, it must have been something that he got back when he wrote to Campy.

I still remember when dad brought home this gentleman's collection he was going to help sell for the widow. There was a Babe Ruth auto on a ball, plus many other Hall of Famers from that era. I can say that I actually held a Babe Ruth signed ball. The leftover stuff that I got was pretty cool. No Babe Ruths or Ty Cobbs in that bunch, but there was close to 1,000 autographs of players going back to the 1920's, including several Hall of Famers and a Roger Maris signed 3 x 5. I still have them all.

Thanks again for the help in trying to ID this card.

Todd

baseballfan

I got to see campy in his later years at cooperstown in the early 80's. he couldn't sign however he was there at the auto sessions taking picture and handing out these type cards.

hope it helps