Greatest Ted Williams Auto

[travrosty]

i think williams signed until the very end. the son kept shoving baseballs in front of him at every opportunity. but if he couldnt make a good sig, he should have called it a day.

[Tuna82]

Originally Posted by travrosty

i think williams signed until the very end. the son kept shoving baseballs in front of him at every opportunity. but if he couldnt make a good sig, he should have called it a day.

Yea but I am pretty sure he stopped signing for UD in 94 or 95 due to contract dispute...

[thecatspajamas]

Did Ted Willams sign for UD too?

[Wymers Auction]

That probably came form the LLP Auctions forger.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by Wymers Auction

That probably came form the LLP Auctions forger.

We exposed them so much I thought they would be buried by now.

[Clark7781]

I think the "Greatest" TW autograph is the forged addition of text written on a "warm up" signature of Mr. Williams that his retard son submitted in court stating that his father wanted to be cryonically preserved at Alcor.

And yes, his son was an a**hole. When Teddy was honored at the all star game, instead of wearing his Red Sox hat, Jr had the old man wear a hat with the internet name of him latest venture.

Then, Teddy would be made to sign ball after ball after ball and was quoted along the lines of saying something like this: "I'm 80-soming f**king years old and still work [signing autographs]."

His son was such a scumbag...

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by Clark7781

I think the "Greatest" TW autograph is the forged addition of text written on a "warm up" signature of Mr. Williams that his retard son submitted in court stating that his father wanted to be cryonically preserved at Alcor.

And yes, his son was an a**hole. When Teddy was honored at the all star game, instead of wearing his Red Sox hat, Jr had the old man wear a hat with the internet name of him latest venture.

Then, Teddy would be made to sign ball after ball after ball and was quoted along the lines of saying something like this: "I'm 80-soming f**king years old and still work [signing autographs]."

His son was such a scumbag...

I still wonder if John Henry's early demise was karma payback.

[Wymers Auction]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

We exposed them so much I thought they would be buried by now.

You are right Rich, but it does have a scary resemblance of incompetence.

[Big Dave]

Ted did quit signing for Upper Deck around 1993, and signed for less then two years due to a contractual dispute. He didn't signed for them anymore after that. The signature shown is a very late in life style. The only way Upper Deck could have gotten that, and the signature shown is real, is to have bought it, cause it wasn't signed in their presence.

[shelly]

Ted Williams was under contract to UDA. He had a contract to finish off some four hundred baseballs.
. I bought seventy Williams UDA balls. To my surprise half of them look like the ball in the picture. Some believe it or not where worse. When UDA looked at them he was allowed to get out of what ever was still due. . Uda did what they did to all the other players that where under contract and left such as Mantle Koufax and others.They dumped them on the market.
When I showed these to people they thought it was cool because these would be last balls he would sign. Just to let you know the Williams balls where purchase by me for $60 Mantle bats for 500-600.

[jerseygary]

I was at Spring Training in Arizona years ago and was talking to a woman who had something to do with a local town museum and she told me a terrible Williams story. Someone had found an 11x14" original print of Ted at the first Red Sox spring training in Arizona in the 1950's (sorry I can't remember the exact year). The owner of the print donated it to the museum and this woman thought it would be a great item to have signed and put in a prominent place in the little museum. She packed it up and sent it to Ted Williams and it came back signed, but with an invoice from his son for a couple hundred dollars! After a few phone calls back and forth she gave up and mailed the photo back to the son and told him to keep it!