2015 Leaf Heroes of Baseball Cards

I’m with Emory Oliver on this one this. Two people complaining about Stan’s autograph? Seriously?

As the letter stated, and is quite the truth, Stan Musial ENJOYED signing autographs. He loved his fans, loved the game, and loved signing things. He did it right up to his deathbed. He literally died doing something he loved! And people are COMPLAINING about it! What’s it going to do with the value of the signature? WHO CARES! It’s a COLLECTIBLE for Chrissakes!

tyler sullivan
How is a auto from stan the man himself is bad and if this is the final years of his life wouldn’t a auto from that period of time be more valuable in the future?

Emory Oliver i agree with you also i want to buy bothe products too.

I think the auto of stan musial is collectible no matter what it looks like

What is the deal with so many people saying the autograph is very poor. Look it is STAN MUSIAL, possibly one of the best baseball players in history. Shame on all of you. I am a huge Cardinal fan. I also have autographs of STAN. To me to have anything signed by him is wonderful. Being able to have a set, an insert set and an autograph for $40.00 is a steal. You pay $40.00 for any other set you may get an autograph of a nobody or not even an autograph at all. For this I say I was very happy with the LEAF HEROES OF BASEBALL. I think it would be worthwhile for LEAF to do more sets like this. I also bought the LEAF Pete Rose set a while back for the fact it had his autograph. I bought both products for 1 reason and 1 reason only an autograph of a Baseball hero. Would I or will I sell the Autographs……..H LL NO. Having the autograph is why I bought the set. I wouldn’t sell it for no reason. P.S. STAN Musial was not a 20 year old baseball player therefore he would have a little shake in is signing. MY GOD PEOPLE HE WAS IN HIS 80’s.

Didn’t know about this product until I bumped into it at Target. For the price, I thought it was a steal. Someone complained about duplicates? Well, you get a complete 60-card base set AND the complete 20-card Musial highlights insert set in every box (at least I did in mine), so in a box with 100 cards, duplicates are going to happen. How you can complain about getting a complete set eludes me, though. I loved it.

The auto I got seems to look better than most, but looking on eBay I’ve seen the autos from this product run that gamut – some were indeed just awful, looking like a couple of smudges, but one or two actually looked just about as good as anything he signed in his prime (those were certainly the exceptions, though). But the customer letter from Brian Gray I think was quite accurate – most of the autos in this seem consistent with what he signed for other products over the past couple of years.

I’d love to see Leaf do another series of this, featuring another all-time great.

I am very unhappy with the overal product. way too many duplicates and a poor signature but not like the one above.

Basically it’s a case of greed trumping quality control.

Here’s the email you get from Leaf if you inquire about the illegible signatures on the stickers. Notice they’re apparently getting so many they don’t even address the senders by name:

“Dear Consumer,

We received your email about the Stan Musial product.

As you might not be aware, for the last several years of Stan’s life, his health declined significantly. Despite his failing health, Stan had a strong desire to continue signing autographs so that fans could continue to enjoy receiving his signature.

Over this time, his signature deteriorated significantly from his prime years and the result of that is what you see on this card. I have attached examples of other cards signed in this era. These are cards that came in

$100-300 hobby boxes s rare chase cards.

I feel very comfortable with the quality of autographs (given that the legend’s life was coming to an end during this period).  I am pleased we were able to provide in every single $39.99 box, what other companies were making extremely rare in boxes 3 to 10 times the price!

For these reasons, these cards do meet the quality standards for the product and therefore are not eligible for return/replacement.

Thanks for your email. I do hope the information provided was helpful.

Brian Gray

CEO, Leaf Trading cards”

I bought a box of those cards at Target and my auto was clean and beautiful-certainly nothing like what is pictured. I am very happy with it!!

Okay, I sprang for one of these boxes at Target. Chrome sticker with better auto that above, but not great. Is this really worse than Topps still using Johnny Podres auto stickers? Or Gary Carter stickers? Yes, Stan Musial was on another level than those players. Still it has been done before. As for killing the value of Musial autographs, not so sure. What may happen is quality of the autograph may eventually become important. Really bad ones will cost less than a nice clean legible autograph.

The autograph looks like it was ibtained on his deathbed…terrible quality and barely legible. His grandson used him to make money with this venture and it is disgusting…better off buying a Stan photo

I have several Musial autos in my collection and I agree that should not be on a card. Sad in a way in my opinion.

I applaud Leaf for some of the creative things they’ve done. Some of the repack products are nice, and the Metal line is a great value. Then they do things like a “blaster-style” offering with an auto of players like Ripken and Rose, totally killing the value or their autograph, and flooding the market with those undesirable cards.

But this is on a whole different level of awful. One, for all the reasons I mentioned above on the Rose and Ripken releases, but look at that signature. Leaf should be flat out embarrassed by those “autographs” obviously obtained from a frail Musial who was in his final stages of life. He had such a clean, beautiful signature. To see this is blasphemous.

Where is this being sold, and take my money. All of it.