Poor Sparky!!

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Stingray
Stingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
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Did he run out of space or did his hand cramp up??

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  • stormsurge
    stormsurge Posts: 858 ✭✭
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    Think someone came up behind him and hit his elbow? image
  • baseballfanatic
    baseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭
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    I think poor Sparky in his old age realized he wouldnt fit it in at the rate he was going so he took a detour up the card. It looks like he was still trying to make the letters as he was turning upwards. Just think we will all be like that one day...
  • baseballfan
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    i have a Musial auto i got at the hall of fame in the 80's when they signed for free. he came down off of the balcony where the HOF's were signing and signed for the rest of people in the line, Class A guy. when he got to mine and he was finishing the "L" he stopped it short and didn't go all the way down through and realized that that's not how he signed so he tried to complete the "L", with a sharpie of course, and it's just a squiggly line. the sig looks fine except the out of place line. he apoligized for the sig not being perfect. i'll tell you i wouldn't sell that picture for love or money and it's a great story i have from being a 14 year old kid interacting with a HOF player and gentleman.

    just thought i'd share that since the anderson auto looks similar. you know he signed it personally and it's different from everyone else's
    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

  • SDSportsFan
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    I read somewhere last year that Sparky has Parkinson's Diseaseimage

    His signature reflects this condition.


    Steve
  • brianwintersfan
    brianwintersfan Posts: 3,626 ✭✭
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    I got him through the mail and it looked the same way.
  • MooseDog
    MooseDog Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭
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    That was common, though not as extreme as the example shown, for Sparky's signature on cards even back in the 1970s.
  • PasadenaMudSlide
    PasadenaMudSlide Posts: 732
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    Looks like a second grader's signature.
  • storm888
    storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
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    It looks like several I have seen.
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