Show your vintage autographs
frankhardy
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Let's see some vintage player autographs - cards, balls, memorabilia, anything. Here is my best one - a 1968 Topps Roger Maris.
Shane
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1934 Cleveland Indians Team signed ball with Walter Johnson on the sweetspot and Moe Berg
Oldest signed card in my collection (card at least, no way of knowing when it was signed other than it's not one of his shakey later in life signatures):
1914 Texas Tommy Rube Marquard
I'll have to try to find a scan of my oldest piece of memorabilia, a minor league program signed by Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Mickey Cochrane, and a bunch of other Hall of Famers
Shane
Vintage Hockey Autograph Collection
Sean
Always Looking for vintage hockey autographs
The Broderick Collection
Bob Grich signature from a 1965 yearbook.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Wallace Triplett was the first African-American to be drafted by and play for a National Football League (NFL) team. For this reason, a portrait of Triplett hangs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame (HOF).
Triplett had an interesting life.
Triplett attended Penn State University, where in 1946, along with Dennie Hoggard, he was one of the first African-Americans to take the field in a varsity football game for the school, lettering in football from 1946 to 1948. At the time of Triplett's freshman season, many southern schools refused to compete against integrated schools unless they left their black players at home. During the 1946 season, Penn State's Nittany Lions team voted to cancel a regular-season game at the University of Miami, rather than compromise by not bringing their black players.
In 1948, Triplett became the first African-American to play in the Cotton Bowl Classic, catching the game tying touchdown in a 13-13 tie with Southern Methodist University. The Detroit Lions seleted Wallace Triplett in the 19th round of the 1949 NFL Draft. Although he was third African-American player chosen in the draft, the first year that any African-Americans were selected, he was the first of the draftees to take the field in an official league game.
Triplett holds the Lions' single-game record in kickoff return yardage with 294 (second-highest total in NFL history), including a 97-yard touchdown return against the Los Angeles Rams in 1950; his average of 73.5 yards per return in that game is also an NFL record. He also set the Lions' record for the longest run from scrimmage with an 80-yard touchdown against the Green Bay Packers. Triplett played with the Detroit Lions in 1949 and 1950.
After the 1950 season, Triplett became the first NFL player drafted into the military service for the Korean War. Following his return from active duty, Triplett was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals where he played in 1952 and 1953.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
This is a Carl Erskine signed album page from a 1950s era autograph book.
The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Carl Erskine as an amateur free agent in 1946. Erskine would play with the Dodgers his entire 12-year career (1948-1959), following the team to Los Angeles in 1958. A member of the Dodgers "Boys of Summer' teams that won five National League pennants in the 1950s and brought the Dodgers their first championship in the 1955 World Series. Erskine appeared in eleven World Series games and set a World Series record with 14 strikeouts in Game 3 of the 1953 Fall Classic. He pitched two no-hitters, the first against the Chicago Cubs on June 19, 1952 and the second on the New York Giants, May 12, 1956.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
My small collection
Want List:
'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey
A couple were IP auto's - When I played In Landisburg, PA field of dreams with them...
Some were from a nice vacation find in South Jersey...
Looking for 1970 MLB Photostamps
- uncut
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Shane
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<< <i>Isn't that Mantle a very old, say 1950's, signature? That is awesome. It would be even more awesomer if it was a little more bold. I've never seen a rookie with a vintage signature like that. Thanks for sharing. >>
yep, rookie era autograph, i wish it was more bold too, but I wouldn't have been close to buying it if it was more bold.... $$$$$$
<< <i>Forgot this one. Read the small write up about him and then his litle note. Very funny. I guess the writer did not like him very much for some reason.
Awesome piece
Mike
Kingnascar's PSA Sets
Kingnascar's PSADNA Sets
not so vintage but close enough:
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
Shane
Here's a couple more from me:
Very cool Paul Waners!
Brumbach,
That 52 Mathews makes me drool!!
Mike
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
Here is a couple of my favorites from my collection.
Here is an autograph from a vintage "player" who is still playing:
I took the photo and got the autograph. Just need to get it framed.
Here is another favorite of mine of another vintage "player":
Again, I took the photo. It is of Paul Stanley handing my son a guitar pick. It is one of my all time favorite photos.
Now, nobody said this thread was limited to "sports" players.
One of my all time favorite managers who also managed the late 20s/ early 30s Athletics teams (my favorite "vintage" era).
Enjoy!
Matt