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[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Originally Posted by Volod

Really like that story. It's so easy to forget that ballplayers - or celebrities in general - are often down-to-earth, decent human beings. I think that is because a minority of them are at the opposite pole and get a lot of the media coverage.

Great point! The few that are jerks get most of the attention it seems. I guess that is generally true in society. Really nice story, thanks for sharing!

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[skil55voy]

Dearborn, Michigan 1987. My daughter and I went to the show to get Gordie Howe's autograph. She had a Red Wings pennant with some autos on it. I had a jersey that had a few sigs on it. We went in and bought our tickets, we were in the 400's. I looked around and the bleachers were full of people waiting for Gordie. No one was walking around the tables. So, we went went around and purchased a few things until we got to the last table on our route. My daughter bought a grab bag for a dollar that had the Domino's pizza 68 Tiger set in it. I am a Post and Jello collector and I looked down and there was a stack of 62 Jello cards for sale. Mays on top for 120.00. 34 cards. I told the dealer that I had 80.00 dollars in my wallet and he said, "I'll take it, you guys are the third people that have bought anything all day. In the stack, Bobby Richardson and Bill Stafford. We then sold our autograph tickets, because she was ready for McDonald's and didn't want to wait 4 hours for the autograph.

[7nohitter]

1990 at a show at BC High in Boston, MA. Ken Griffey Jr. was the autograph guest. My ticket was something like number 98. As I walked by the room where Ken was signing the announcer called, "Tickets 1-100." I was literally the first one in line and got an incredible signature on Griffey's 1990 UD card. 26 years later and that card is still one of my favorites!

Griffey could not have been nicer!

[DHogan]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

1990 at a show at BC High in Boston, MA. Ken Griffey Jr. was the autograph guest. My ticket was something like number 98. As I walked by the room where Ken was signing the announcer called, "Tickets 1-100." I was literally the first one in line and got an incredible signature on Griffey's 1991 UD card. 26 years later and that card is still one of my favorites!

Griffey could not have been nicer!

That was one of the first shows I went to. It was awesome.

[Rookiemonster]

I was a teen so maybe 95/96. I went to this show and still do . I attempting to trade or sell some cards . It was me and a few friends. We asked a guy if he was interested in anything. He said he couldn't buy anything because he just bought the entire table next to him.i don't remember the guy's name but he always called us brother. So in a laid back surfer voice he said. You can set up all your cards on the empty table next to me Brotha!! We were so excited ! We sold most I our cards that day. I remember leaving with 200 something bucks. And the guy was like see Brotha how cool was that suffer giggle. We called the guy Brotha man as we knew him for other shows. But we never seen him again after that show.


Brotha man if your out there ?! Thanks for the memories!

[sixpointone]

November 1st, 2008, I was in Wilmington, MA, excited to get Johnny Bench’s autograph. I was also hoping for a picture with him. I was wearing Bench jersey, and a Reds cap. As he walked into the room, a good 25 feet away or so, he spotted my outfit, and yelled over “Hey you, with a classy outfit like that, get over here and take a picture with me!” I could not believe it. We chatted for 5 minutes or so. I got to tell him how big a fan I am, and how I loved watching The Baseball Bunch. He personalized the signature on my baseball, and we did indeed got a pic together, complete with holding my childhood t-shirt from The Baseball Bunch. Sometimes you have a hero, and when you meet them, the experience exceeds all expectations. I’ll take this memory with me forever.

[7nohitter]

Originally Posted by DHogan

That was one of the first shows I went to. It was awesome.

Hey Dave,

That was probably the first 'big' show I had been to. I was 14 at the time, but remember it vividly. I also remember thinking I got a deal on a '72 Nolan Ryan because at the time it booked for $250, but because of a small ding on the side I got it for 'only' $200. Oh well, it was still a great day.

[DHogan]

Any day at a show is a great day.

[steve B]

No big stories, but a couple fun ones.

The first show I went to in 78 was local and in a Holiday Inn in Burlington Ma. It was the "second annual" while the show lasted a long time, well into the 90's and maybe past 2000? It changed promoters and the hotel changed chains several times. I still have the little ad for the show which was a bit bigger than a mid 50's card.

Anyway, first show, and I found out about it from the local dealer whose store I hung out at. Their table happened to be the first one inside the entrance. As I stopped and started looking at the stuff they had set up one of the guys comes over and says " Steve, you've already seen all this stuff beat it and go look at the other tables. " Pretty cool for them to push me towards the other dealers.
Of course, I was spending a couple hours maybe three days a week in the shop and doing some set building for them, so I was a fairly captive customer.


Second was the Wilmington show, forget the year, but Brooks Robinson was the main autograph guest. I'd already gotten an auto from him years before and he'd been incredibly cool (Small adult venue, and he made the whole line wait while he talked about baseball with the one kid there ) I'd picked up a boxful of MSA discs that had a bunch of his cards, and was sorting it while I was having lunch. A kid and his dad sat at the table and started talking about getting the autographs. After a couple minutes I asked the kid if he liked Robinson. He did, and actually knew something about his career which had probably ended before the kids was born. Asked him what he thought of the discs, which he thought were cool. So I told him Brooks had been really great to me when I was about the same age and gave him a stack of discs with a couple Robinsons and a few other players who were or would be in the HOF. A nice bit of excitement for him. And more fun for me than I'd expected.

Steve B

[DHogan]

Originally Posted by 7nohitter

Hey Dave,

That was probably the first 'big' show I had been to. I was 14 at the time, but remember it vividly. I also remember thinking I got a deal on a '72 Nolan Ryan because at the time it booked for $250, but because of a small ding on the side I got it for 'only' $200. Oh well, it was still a great day.

The first show I went to at BC high, Bill Russell was signing for $350.00 each. I thought people were nuts for it.