Wooo! They've won Ric Flair's first autograph card

We’ve randomly selected the winners in our exclusive drawing for 15 copies of “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair‘s first certified autograph card.

It’s an exclusive Donruss Americana promo card made just for this contest by the folks at Panini America. Only 15 of these cards were made for the contest, each slabbed in a custom BGS holder for display/protection that notes that the card was made just for Beckett Media.

It wasn’t easy becoming a winner of one of the Flair cards as we had literally hundreds of entries submitted via e-mail. The allure of the first — and so far only — certified autograph card of the greatest pro wrestler of all time wasn’t lost on more than a few collectors and wrestling fans as we had nearly 100 losing entries for every winner.

That’s a lot of demand, but not a lot of supply for the WWE Hall of Famer’s card. The natural question at this point — other than “Who won?” — is “What’s it worth?”  We’ll have to wait and see if any of the lucky winners opt to sell — but I wrote a bit about what I thought here.

Find the winners list after the jump. Congrats to all. Be sure to look in future issues of Beckett magazines and visit Beckett.com (and right here, too) to see how you can win other cool stuff in our other contests.

THE WINNERS

Randy Netzler — Wrightstown, Wisc.

John A. Garden — New Paris, Ohio

Art Smith — Hammonton, N.J.

Jeff Wilen — Ormond Beach, Fla.

Tim Robertson — Carutherville, Mo.

Darren Jones — Minden, Nev.

Brian Turner — Schaumburg, Ill.

Daniel P. Anderson — New Haven, Conn.

David Brooks — Waynesville, N.C.

Anthony Williams — Crossville, Tenn.

Tim Searvant — Glendale, N.Y.

Alan Sabour — Maricopa, Ariz.

Robert Hughes — New City, N.Y.

Mark Breidt — Wharton, N.J.

Richard Ryan — Shreveport, La.

Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.