Clint Eastwood – Baseball by The Letters https://www.baseballbytheletters.com Hand-written memories from those who lived The Game! Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:07:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 22759191 Collecting Baseball Scout Autographs? https://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2013/01/30/collecting-baseball-scout-autographs/ https://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2013/01/30/collecting-baseball-scout-autographs/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:10:00 +0000 http://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2013/01/30/collecting-baseball-scout-autographs/ Read more]]> I found a great 2011 newspaper article
about one of baseball’s unsung heroes.

Forget Clint Eastwood. I want the real thing.

I’m pleased with any new baseball movie. With this one, I hoped, “Will this push Topps to honor at least one scout in a future retro card set?”

When will card shows wake up? Tom Greenwade died 25 years ago. People were shelling out for Mickey Mantle autographs. Does anyone have a signed baseball from the man who discovered The Mick? I would have attended.

Sure, some former players became scouts. However, their autograph gets collected anyway, just for appearing in a card set.

Is there a whole legion of baseball scout autograph collectors that I don’t know about?

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