Some More Purchases

I added a few more Hall of Famer autographs to my collection by bidding on Tom Orr's eBay auctions.

I needed these two Tony Perez cards signed for my 1975 and 1978 Topps set collections.  The 75 is smeared just a little bit, but not too bad.

I very casually work on the 1979 Topps set.  Which means, I have the complete, unsigned set and include a card in my requests if I have room for it.  So, if I am sending out a 75 and a 78 Topps to a player, I'll also include a 79 Topps if the player has a card in the set and they appear to sign at least three cards based on their history on SCN.  I have about 225 cards signed from the set.  Buying this card for $5.99 was a no brainer, since I wouldn't pay Jim Kaat's ttm signing fee ($25) to get it done.  And his 1968 Topps Checklist card was an impulse buy for just $7.50.

Finally, this Orlando Cepeda 1982 K-Mart card was also an impulse buy.  It pictures his 1967 Topps, which was the year he won the MVP Award.  At $7.99, this purchase was cheaper than sending it to him ttm when he was still with us.

I'm surprised and disappointed to realize I never sent Cepeda a copy of the 1972 Topps card that memorializes the MVP Award.  Towards the end of his life, I was struggling to find cards to send to him that I hadn't already sent, and the MVP card should have been on my list.  I 've only sent that card out to eight players, so I need to make more progress on that one.  The players include:

1. Andre Dawson
2. Bobby Shantz
3. Dennis Eckersley
4. Denny McLain
5. George Foster
6. Jim Rice
7. Rollie Fingers
8. Steve Garvey

Here's Bobby Shantz's signature on the card:

I should be getting back some mail-in signings returns this week, including some Central-American players and also a couple cards that I paid someone to get for me at TwinsFest (Pablo Lopez and Glenn Perkins).