waning moon

yes, today begins a new cycle following last night's full moon.  that's not what this post is about, though. here's another card from my dad's collection.

it's a 1963 topps wally moon and it was part of his 1963 topps dodger team set. the signature is not as strong as it once was (waning - get it?), but that wasn't the point of the purchase.

my dad bought this card from our local lcs in the early 1980's. i know because we found a few signed cards mixed in the vintage 'commons' boxes that al the proprietor had available for us to look through. i picked up signed versions of both jim brewer and wes parker's 1970 topps cards, and my dad took home the moon, along with a jim gilliam card that i've shown before. we didn't pay any more than if they hadn't been signed. i kept both the parker and the brewer as part of my 1970 topps dodger team set for about 20 years before replacing them and adding the signed versions to my non-certifiied/in person/ttm autograph collection.

that's where this moon would have gone, i already have a 1963 topps card signed by the late 1954 rookie of the year from a ttm success, so this one is expendable. at any rate, even though moon's signature is not all there, the unibrow game is as strong as ever!