Upper Deck Really Loves Autographs!!!
After tearing through those 8 packs of 1991 Upper Deck baseball cards the other day I began sorting them last night. After pulling some for my personal collection as well as some for TTM attempts and even a few for trades, I finally got down to a stack of cards that really don’t fit my collecting goals.
With this medium-sized stack of cards, I began to flip through them to see what I can do with them. Possible trades? Potential donations to team collectors? Maybe let my kids tear them apart?
All of a sudden I started to see a common theme in some of the photos. Check this out:
It seems that our good friends at Upper Deck, or the photographers that they employed, really like pictures of players signing autographs. I cannot recall seeing so many cards with this theme in other issues, especially not from a company like Topps or Donruss who force-fed us with posed photography so often in the 1980’s.
This is kind of cool. I don’t know what I am going to do with these – but for now they remain apart from the stack of cards that came out of those 8 packs. While not a subset, it may be fun to put together a small collection of cards featuring guys signing autographs.
What do you think?
