Time for me to repeat my one and only JSA story: had a free coupon, so thought I'd get a Gene Conley ball authenticated, more as a lark. If anyone's seen Conley's sig, it's very legible. So I hand the ball and the coupon to the kid (if he wasn't a teenager, he was close!) who walks to the other side of the booth, but comes back to me with a puzzled look on his face. I say "It's Gene Conley." He nods, smiles, puts a sticker on it, enters the code into the computer, hands me the ball, and I walk away amazed that these people were raking in money all day long.
To this day, the part that gets me the most is that I wasn't smart enough to start a company like this!
Ken
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