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Multiple Autographs of Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige Purchased

Autographs of Baseball Legends Help Buy Wedding Dress

January 28, 2025

Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige autographs helped buy a new bride her wedding dress! Just Collect proudly purchased a collection of autographs featuring some of baseball's greatest players, and the money went to a wonderful cause.

THE COLLECTION

Jaqui and her fiancé are getting ready for the big day! The happy couple was prepping for their wedding, but beforehand, Jaqui was helping her future father-in-law clean out the garage. When her future father-in-law was a kid, he and his dad would attend baseball games. Along came index cards so he could collect autographs at the entrances and exits of the fields. The chase was the best part! Eventually, the young man began sending out index cards through the mail for players to sign. The autograph collection grew and after awhile, he opened up a Hobby Shop. When it came time to retire, the autographs were boxed up and stored in the garage.

As Jaqui began cleaning the garage, she found boxes of Americana memorabilia, sports memorabilia and signed index cards sporting beautiful, bold signatures of Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Lefty Gomez, Dizzy Dean, and more!

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier on his way to a historic career. Winning the Rookie of the Year award in 1947 and MVP award in 1949, Robinson also led the Brooklyn Dodgers to a World Series victory in 1955. The six-time All-Star was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Robinson was a hero on and off the field.

How good was Satchel Paige? After Jackie broke the color barrier, Paige made his MLB debut at the age of 42. My back hurts getting off the couch now, and Paige was throwing fastballs by baseball's best at this age. Paige promptly won the World Series in 1948, made two All-Star teams (1952 and 1953), and even pitched in a game at the age of 58 in 1965. Paige was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

Dizzy Dean won the 1934 MVP and led the league in strikeouts eight times before being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1953. Lefty Gomez won the pitching triple crown twice by leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA. The seven-time All-Star won five World Series championships and was inducted into the HOF in 1972.

Do you remember sending index cards or baseball cards to players in the mail? We remember the excitement when those envelopes came back to us! To this day, we remember the address of Yankee Stadium by heart after writing many fan letters to our favorite players.

In the slide show below, you can see the wonderful penmanship of Jackie Robinson in the first two images and Satchel Paige on the next two images. Final two images are autographs of various players and managers that Jaqui's future father-in-law met over the years.

APPRAISAL AND PURCHASE

Jaqui's future father-in-law tasked her with handling the autographs and selling parts of the collection for him. After a quick search on Google, Jaqui found our Just Collect website and read that we offer a . Your local card shop is generally not well equipped to appraise or purchase autograph collections like this. The retail stores are focused on selling modern products and simply don't have the time or the knowledge to carefully evaluate a collection like this. This is where we are happy to help you. We have purchased many collections autographs including a baseball signed by both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig that was once owned by their Yankees teammate! You can see the story and baseball HERE. We specialize in purchasing vintage cards, too, especially Jackie Robinson cards. Just Collect traveled from New Jersey to California to purchase THREE Jackie Robinson rookie cards that you can read about HERE.

Jaqui was nearby our office in New Jersey, and opted to come visit our store with the signatures for us to review. To ensure authentication on the autographs, we sent the autographs of Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige to PSA. Not only does PSA grade cards, they are one of the top autograph authenticators in the hobby.

After the autographs returned from PSA and were deemed authentic, we made a fair offer to Jaqui for ALL of the autographs that she accepted. We then paid Jaqui how she wanted to be paid. When you sell your collection to Just Collect, we can pay you in cash, company check, or wire transfer.

For the wedding! When Jaqui told her fiancé and and future father-in-law about selling the autographs, they told her to use the money to upgrade her wedding dress. We couldn't be more thrilled to help the bride look stunning on her big day.

If you have a collection of vintage cards or autographs that you're interested in selling, we are buying! If you're too far away from the Just Collect office in New Jersey, we offer a variety of ways to evaluate and purchase collections such as meeting us at a show or convention, and we do travel for large collections. See below how to reach out for your free appraisal today!

WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING

Just Collect is always buying vintage sports and non-sports cards from 1879 to 1979 as well as select modern cards. If you have a collection that you are considering selling, contact us today to discuss or get our industry-leading purchase offer. If you have a collection that you want appraised, please contact us and we would be happy to discuss your collection and help you understand the real cash value of your collection in the current marketplace. Check out the Just Collect Buy List.

We always offer a FREE APPRAISAL for your collection here at the Just Collect site. Just click here:

We offer may ways to evaluate your cards other than or using our website, too.

Travel to Us

If you can make the trip here like the son from my hometown did for this collection- we can make a deal at the office. We once met a father-son duo that drove eight hours from Virginia to meet us to sell a Michael Jordan rookie card stored in Tupperware since 1986 - great read here.

Come to convention

We keep a LIST of card shows we'll be attending. Come stop by the Just Collect table and chat.

Meet in-person

If you have a valuable collection and want us to come to you, we'll hop on the next plane out.

Meet in New York City

If you're near New York City and would like to meet in a public place, our owner, Leighton, would be happy to meet you; read all the information here.

SHIP your collection

If you choose to mail your cards for an appraisal, we will evaluate your cards for FREE still. If you choose not to sell the cards, we'll ship them back shipping fees paid by us! We can offer our FedEx account with 2-day shipping, fully insured, all covered by us. Simply contact the office to set up this option.

OUR BUYING PHILOSOPHY

We've run into a wide range of people and collections over the last 25 years. Although Just Collect is known for buying vintage sports cards and especially vintage baseball cards, we are also extremely interested in buying non-sports cards, too!

Every collection and every collector is different and we treat EVERY collection with the respect and attention that we show for our own collections. We understand that many have put their heart and souls into building their collections. So when you're ready to sell, we understand the feelings that you're going through and will work with you to help you reach a decision that is a WIN/WIN, because if you're not happy, we're not happy.