Autographed Baseball Cards A-Z -- Rocky to Crazy Horse

When I got back into collecting five or so years ago one of the things that excited me was the availability of autographed cards.  Perhaps I went a little overboard but I think I picked up some nice cards.  This will be an A-Z series of posts with varying numbers of cards.

 I've you've read this blog you know how much I love this set.  It's a bonus that certain players have more than one card featuring them with different teams.

 Tyler hit 20 home runs in 2010 but also struck out a lot.  He was hit and impaled by a broken bat toward the end of the season.  For whatever reason he couldn't get untracked this year and finds himself in Triple A where he's hitting .262 with a bunch of strikeouts.

 Concepcion is part of my Big Red Machine collection.  I have an on-card of Dave but it's misplaced for the moment in our recent move.  As sticker auto's go this one is nice.  You can barely tell it is a sticker.

 Two Cecil Cooper's here.  Looks like he had a little trouble with the first one.

 These are nice looking cards.  Too bad they're sticker autos.

 Another collection of mine are the Robinsons era Orioles.   Between 1969 and 1974 Mike Cuellar went 125-63 for the O's.  Mike passed away last spring after battling stomach cancer.

  

Big Cards Need Love Too -- #'s 17-20

I guess I'm in the minority but I think these 3-1/2" x 5", 1983 Donruss Action All-Stars are nice.   Here they are in numerical order. (Click to enlarge particularly if you want to read the backs).

 Damaso had some good years for the Jays in the mid 1980's.  He swiped 54 bases in 1982.

 Gary is in the same league as Damaso.  He had some good years but not in the long term.  He's the father of Daryle Ward.  I don't like the batting practice cap.

 Now we're talking.  Coop put up some big numbers.  In '83 he posted career highs in homers (30) and runs batted in (126).  This card just looks sharp to me.

 "You know Keith Hernandez?"  Not a great picture of Keith here.  This is the year (1983) he was traded to the Mets.  According to Whitey Herzog who had both suspicions of Keith using drugs and a problem with his attitude the Cards manager was told by owner August Busch to "trade the son of a bitch."  The Mets picked him up for Neil Allen and Rick Owenby.