Request Reprint Send us your request to reprint copyrighted material. He is in a class by himself. Cut signatures mean that the signatures are cut out of other items bearing the autograph of the players. For example, they could be cut from autograph books or from letters or even from cancelled checks. On this particular special card, there are five cut autographs including Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson.
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There is only one card like the one Coakley found in a pack of Upper Deck baseball trading cards. Sometimes he would branch out to collect cards of other sports. Coakley opened that special pack of cards just as he has opened hundreds of other packs. As a card collector he had accomplished the equivalent of a major league player hitting 100 homeruns in one season. Coakley posted his auction, and it was item number 1137334262.