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Tim328
April 25th, 2009, 03:17 PM
I would be interested in hearing from fellow collectors on who they think are the toughest hockey autographs to obtain of players who started playing after 1950.
lindsay5forfighting
April 25th, 2009, 06:41 PM
Post playing career I think are Michel Bergeron, Gary Inness, Jim Watson who was with Detroit in the 60's as have written 3 times wih no response, Lory Gloeckner who I wrote 2 times with no response, Mike Korney twice with no response just to name a few.
GRAVES 9
April 25th, 2009, 08:40 PM
Mike Korney changed his name to Mike Korey.

Larry Brown, Alain Daigle, Gary Smith, Ron Chipperfield, Bob Sirois, Tony White, Yves Belanger and Pierre Jarry are all difficult to obtain.
lafleurfan10
April 25th, 2009, 09:26 PM
George Armstrong
lindsay5forfighting
April 25th, 2009, 09:28 PM
Mike Korney changed his name to Mike Korey.

Larry Brown, Alain Daigle, Gary Smith, Ron Chipperfield, Bob Sirois, Tony White, Yves Belanger and Pierre Jarry are all difficult to obtain.

He's still hard no matter what he call's himself!
Hamilton
April 25th, 2009, 10:30 PM
roger lafreniere
reebokkid
April 25th, 2009, 10:32 PM
Gary Inness
IMO I have 16 kids from work that see him everyday
I got one only because he owed a kid a favor and the kid was able to ditract him before he personalized it to him for me.
That one took 7 years and I live in the same city and 2 blocks from where he teaches!!!!!!!!!!!
GRAVES 9
April 26th, 2009, 08:09 AM
Did you try the address for Mike Korney in Yorkton SK ? He signed for me a few years ago at that address.
JBridgman
April 26th, 2009, 12:57 PM
I'd say that Don Simmons has to be pretty close to the #1 spot on this list.
joekocur
April 26th, 2009, 02:52 PM
Behn Wilson
bigbadbruin
April 26th, 2009, 09:38 PM
I'd say that Don Simmons has to be pretty close to the #1 spot on this list.

I second this one.
Thunderstruck
April 27th, 2009, 11:20 AM
I tried Butch Deadmarsh (home) and Gilles Lupien (office) three times with no success.
Can anyone report a response from those players ? I can not remember seeing a story about success in this or in other forums.
icecards
April 28th, 2009, 01:05 AM
Tried them both at home addresses in 2006. Also had no success for either one.
lindsay5forfighting
April 28th, 2009, 07:55 AM
A couple of others:
Bob Champoux and Don Caley. Wrote 3 times each with no rresponse.
moog35
October 15th, 2009, 06:44 PM
Post playing career I think are Michel Bergeron, Gary Inness, Jim Watson who was with Detroit in the 60's as have written 3 times wih no response, Lory Gloeckner who I wrote 2 times with no response, Mike Korney twice with no response just to name a few.


Could you tell me the address you used for Michel Bergeron. thank you
lindsay5forfighting
October 16th, 2009, 02:26 PM
Could you tell me the address you used for Michel Bergeron. thank you

Wasn't ever able to write Bergeron as I haven't ever seen a mailing address.
Leafman
October 16th, 2009, 10:06 PM
Frank Nigro, Vince Tremblay, Doug Acomb, Ray Ceresino, Fred Arthur

At one time Mike Korney, Gary Inness, Butch Deadmarsh, Gilles Lupien were all fine TTM. Was even lucky enough to get Don Simmons prior to his complete shutdown in the mid 80's.
Boo
October 17th, 2009, 05:25 AM
Larry Brown and Jean Ratelle.
theodore60
October 18th, 2009, 02:28 AM
Mike Korney changed his name to Mike Korey.

Larry Brown, Alain Daigle, Gary Smith, Ron Chipperfield, Bob Sirois, Tony White, Yves Belanger and Pierre Jarry are all difficult to obtain.

An aquaintance of mine who owns and runs a local sports card shop told me that Gary Smith is now homeless on the streets of Vancouver due to becoming an alcoholic. He said Gary is sometimes seen wandering around the Pacific Coliseum during Vancouver Giants games and one time gave him $20 to sign a card for him. I have a feeling that the murder of his brother may have brought on his alcoholism. It's sad to see someone with such a colorful personality as Gary hit rock bottom like this. Hopefully one day he'll get the opportunity to straighten out his life. He deserves it.
TannisS
October 18th, 2009, 05:04 PM
An aquaintance of mine who owns and runs a local sports card shop told me that Gary Smith is now homeless on the streets of Vancouver due to becoming an alcoholic. He said Gary is sometimes seen wandering around the Pacific Coliseum during Vancouver Giants games and one time gave him $20 to sign a card for him. I have a feeling that the murder of his brother may have brought on his alcoholism. It's sad to see someone with such a colorful personality as Gary hit rock bottom like this. Hopefully one day he'll get the opportunity to straighten out his life. He deserves it.

Not sure if that's true. An acquaintance of mine phoned Gary and chatted with him and sent him a few cards to get signed.

:/
spartacus
October 18th, 2009, 07:17 PM
An aquaintance of mine who owns and runs a local sports card shop told me that Gary Smith is now homeless on the streets of Vancouver due to becoming an alcoholic. He said Gary is sometimes seen wandering around the Pacific Coliseum during Vancouver Giants games and one time gave him $20 to sign a card for him. I have a feeling that the murder of his brother may have brought on his alcoholism. It's sad to see someone with such a colorful personality as Gary hit rock bottom like this. Hopefully one day he'll get the opportunity to straighten out his life. He deserves it.

bollocks. he owns a few horses at hasting park race track in vancouver.
theodore60
October 19th, 2009, 02:28 PM
bollocks. he owns a few horses at hasting park race track in vancouver.

Hopefully your right on this one. I knew he owned horses in the 90's but didn't still know if he did. This aquaintance of mine probably just paid some homeless guy who looked like Gary Smith 20 bucks to sign. Sounds like a sweet deal for the homeless guy ;)