Totally blown away with this HOF piece I picked up!!!

Gonzaleznut · May 19, 2015

With over 1,000 HOF autos and several amazing multi-signed pieces in my collection, it takes a lot to get me impressed.

Well it happened today. I went and personally picked up my most recent auction pickup. I was so excited to see it because there was a major autograph on the piece that I saw and neither the item description nor the JSA Certificate mention this player. Would love to hear what everyone thinks about them.

First off, here are the pics...

These are two Hall of Fame Programs from the 1983 Induction. Someone must have spent some serious time acquiring all of these autos. They all totally missed the Roy Campanella auto in the middle of the second program.

Here is a list of the signers:

1	Joe	Cronin	1	Tom	Seaver
2	Bill	Dickey	2	Lou	Boudreau
3	Al	Lopez	3	Red	Schoendienst
4	Willie	Mays	4	Luis	Aparicio
5	Billy	Herman	5	Billy	Williams
6	Bob	Feller	6	Lou	Brock
7	Luke	Appling	7	George	Kell
8	Monte	Irvin	8	Al	Kaline
9	Enos	Slaughter	9	Al	Barlick
10	Joe	DiMaggio	10	Phil	Niekro
11	Willie	Stargell	11	Rick	Ferrell
12	Ernie	Banks	12	Johnny	Bench
13	Harmon	Killebrew	13	A.B.	Chandler
14	Robin	Roberts	14	Rod	Carew
15	Warren	Spahn	15	Jim	Palmer
16	James	Bell	16	Hal	Newhouser
17	Eddie	Mathews	17	Fergie	Jenkins
18	Johnny	Mize	18	Ray	Dandridge
19	Whitey	Ford	19	Pee Wee	Reese
20	Brooks	Robinson	20	Roy	Campanella
21	Reggie	Jackson	21	Carl	Yastrzemski
22	Mickey	Mantle	22	Early	Wynn
23	Frank	Robinson	23	Don	Sutton
24	Hank	Aaron	24	Gaylord	Perry
25	Don	Drysdale	25	Steve	Carlton
26	Stan	Musial	26	Joe	Morgan
27	Yogi	Berra	27	Tony	Perez
28	Willie	McCovey	28	Jim	Hunter
29	Ted	Williams	29	Bob	Gibson
30	Bill	Terry	30	Charlie	Gehringer
31	Ralph	Kiner	31	Bob	Doerr
32	Pete	Rose	32	Leo	Durocher
33	Buck	Leonard	33	Bob	Lemon
34	Joe	Sewell	34	Rollie	Fingers
35	Juan	Marichal	35	Hoyt	Wilhelm
36	Duke	Snider
37	Sandy	Koufax

IndyManning18 · May 19, 2015

Very cool. Congrats on the purchase.

MisterT · May 19, 2015

Great stuff! Congrats.

RStadlerASU22 · May 19, 2015

Impressive piece ! That's quite a pickup.

Ryan

Super Mario · May 19, 2015

Autopenned.

homerun28aa · May 19, 2015

Very cool! Hope you wind up getting the Campy authenticated as well!

deaconblues63 · May 19, 2015

Those are amazing. I enjoyed seeing them.

Gonzaleznut · May 19, 2015

Super Mario said:
Autopenned.

Really???

Austin · May 19, 2015

Incredible pieces with tremendous eye appeal. Back in 1983, it was a 100% guarantee Rose would be a Hall of Famer. Doh!

But you have to wonder why JSA failed to authenticate the large bold Campanella signature. An oversight seems extremely unlikely. But if is an autopen, why would Campy have used one at a Cooperstown signing? Very strange.

Gonzaleznut · May 19, 2015

Austin said:
Incredible pieces with tremendous eye appeal. Back in 1983, it was a 100% guarantee Rose would be a Hall of Famer. Doh!

But you have to wonder why JSA failed to authenticate the large bold Campanella signature. An oversight seems extremely unlikely. But if is an autopen, why would Campy have used one at a Cooperstown signing? Very strange.

If it makes you feel better they also missed Jim Hunter on the same program and listed Enos Slaughter twice from the first program. They (JSA or PSA/DNA) are far from perfect. They "miss" stuff all the time.

69MetsFan · May 19, 2015

What an outstanding piece, congrats!!

BigAppleJak · May 19, 2015

Very special...congrats!

gt2590 · May 19, 2015

Great piece, enjoy!

It's always amazing how much better the older players autographs look than the recent guys...

mchenrycards · May 19, 2015

Gonzaleznut said:
Really???

It certainly was not autopenned but.........

Being a long time collector I do remember when Mr. Campenella did sign some autographs and he used a special device to help control his arm and hand. There was a small group that felt that the use of this device resulted in nothing more than a autopen-like signature and were not willing to pay for something that was not a "true" signnature. What intrigued me about this arguement and the reason I remember it so well was because my sister was also paralyzed from a diving accident and was in the same condition as Mr. Capenella but yet, she could sign her own name, even though it was very shaky, but it was readable. I often wondered why he needed a device to help write his name when my sister could do it even though it was difficult for her. I now know that all quadraplegics are different and what is easy for one might not be for the other.

I dont know if this is the reason why the Campy was mentioned on your piece or if it was an oversight but I do remember the small uproar back in the day when it was discovered that the Campy signatures where mechanically assisted.

Nice pickup by the way!!

MaineMule · May 19, 2015

Great piece Mike!! Congrats!!

Here's a link to the 1982 induction on the HOF site- http://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/past-inductions/1980-1989

Hank, F Robby, Happy Chandler and Travis Jackson are the 1982 inductees pictured on the 1983 HOF program.

A lot of the names were inducted well past 1983, so certainly the pieces were collected over many years. Niekro was not inducted until 1997, Sutton 1998, Perez 2000. There are a bunch of late 90's inductees not included- Rizzuto, Schmidt, Bunning, Weaver, Lasorda, Doby, McPhail, Brett, Cepeda, Ryan and Yount- who were/are alive in the period these autos were collected.

Anyway, great additions to an already outstanding collection!!

Gonzaleznut · May 19, 2015

I am thinking of adding a few of those guys from that same period.

What do you guys think?? Leave it as is or add more???

RStadlerASU22 · May 19, 2015

Gonzaleznut said:
I am thinking of adding a few of those guys from that same period.

What do you guys think?? Leave it as is or add more???

Add , as it wasn't a piece made for only certain people. Maybe do as many 2000 and before inductions as you can, since Perez is on there already. Or maybe as many those who played/retired in the 90s or before?

Ryan

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