This is my fifth, completed copy of this 1965 Topps with Dick Estelle and Masanori Murakami. It's not hard to complete, but you do need to send to Japan, which is only a little extra work by getting the appropriate outgoing postage.
I wouldn't mind having a nine-pocket page full of this card, but the card itself has gotten quite expensive, and I'm not sure why. It's #282, so not close to being a high number card. Of the last four copies of this card I bought, only one was less than $20.
Typically, Billy Grabarkewitz signs the cards you send him with just a "G." for his last name. He has done that since my first request to him in 2011, so I don't know if he used to sign his full name and started to abbreviate it at some point, or if he's always abbreviated. He doesn't charge a fee, but I included $20 with this request along with a polite request to sign his full name, and apologizing if he has difficulty signing in which case any signature would be greatly appreciated and keep the money anyway. Here are his abbreviated examples:
He signed his full name on both cards and even added an All Star inscription. Since he added an inscription, I'm assuming he doesn't have trouble signing, so I'd say a full last name request with money is an option with him.
I made a similar request to Danny Cater a while ago when I asked him to add his full last name to a couple multi-signed cards and really wanted his full name signature to match the others. I also included $10 per card on that request, which was enough apparently.
John "Blue Moon" Odom signed his 1971 Topps, which is an upgrade to the one he signed in black about four years ago, and a 1980 Fleer Laughlin card commemorating the 1973 World Series where the A's beat the Mets in seven games. Odom pitched in two of those World Series games for a total of 4.2 innings.
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