Welcome to our community

Be apart of something great, join today!

"player sample" ernie banks Heritage autograph

Disclaimer: Links on this page pointing to Amazon, eBay and other sites may include affiliate code. If you click them and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission.

BBCgalaxee

Well-known member
Sep 9, 2011
6,475
59
What exactly it this?

Bigboyd has a couple
 

Attachments

  • uploadfromtaptalk1355603981367.jpg
    uploadfromtaptalk1355603981367.jpg
    38.8 KB · Views: 73
  • uploadfromtaptalk1355604005828.jpg
    uploadfromtaptalk1355604005828.jpg
    35.4 KB · Views: 62
  • uploadfromtaptalk1355604017047.jpg
    uploadfromtaptalk1355604017047.jpg
    40 KB · Views: 68

timfsu2k

Member
Jul 8, 2009
482
0
Kentucky
Could it be a sample that Topps sent the player just so that they could see what the card looked like? Maybe Banks thought he was supposed to sign it and send it back to Topps, and they just inserted it into the packs like a regular auto.
 

mudflap02

Active member
Jan 23, 2009
3,039
3
Daytona Beach, FL
Starting in 2010, every player was given "Player Sample" autos. I've tracked down a few. I know that in 2012, the print run was 50. I'm assuming it was a lot less in 2010, and 50 in 2011.

Ernie Banks and Starlin Castro have TONS of player samples on the market. Maybe even more than their base blue autos. I am pretty sure that someone in the Chicago area (or possibly with the Cubs organization) backdoored all 50 of each player, and bigboyd ended up with most or all of these 2 players. They have been readily available for 2011 and 2012 (neither has an auto in 2010 Heritage), and they are generally worth right about the same as the base blue autos. I've never seen more than one copy of any of the 2010 autos.

Here's my collection of player sample autos.

2010PlayerSampleBlueROA-AR.jpg


2010PlayerSampleBlueROA-JR.jpg


2011PlayerSampleBlueROA-EB.jpg


2011PlayerSampleBlueROA-HN.jpg


2011PlayerSampleBlueROA-SC.jpg


2012playersampleROA-BV.jpg


2012PlayerSampleROA-DS.jpg


2012playersampleROA-EA.jpg


2012playersampleROA-MMC.jpg


2012playersampleROA-RK.jpg


2012PlayerSampleROA-SC.jpg
 

Members online

Top