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A little while ago, I got an email from Steiner Sports congratulating Barry Larkin on his election to the Hall of Fame and announcing that he was a “New Steiner Sports Exclusive Athlete.”
You can place your orders now for a baseball signed by Larkin and inscribed “HOF 2012″ for just $199.99.
(Now I remember why I gave up the idea of collection Hall of Fame autographs many years ago.)
This seems to happen every year. My advice is don’t buy Larkin anything right now- you’ll pay top dollar. Steiner always has huge discounts during the holiday season. I got a ton of emails from them during the holiday season. By this time next year you’ll see Larkin’s autograph come down- I saw last years inductees, Alomar and Blyleven, as part of discount emails.
Barry Larkin is obviously alive and well. There will be plenty of his signatures available.
I’ve made it this long without a Barry Larkin autograph in my collection… I think I can wait until the price reaches a reasonable level. I do feel bad for the Reds fans who will be paying that price this year, but then again maybe it will be worth it to them.
The reason why I stay away from sports collectibles is because too many are either overpriced or fake. Hell, if the HOF can get duped, what does that say about we mortals?
I got a huge chunk of the 1990 Reds a number of years back (including Larkin, and Eric Davis, but no Paul O’Neill). It was just over $100. Now they’re going 200 – wow.
I got that email too – Larkin’s deal with Steiner had to be in place for a few weeks now.
And I agree 100% with Freddy – Steiner has emails every other day with sale pricing, eventually Larkin will land in that bucket, and still may be too higher priced then…