Please sign Mr Jeter - NY Times article about collecting Jeter in Fla

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Babe Ruth was hounded for more than twenty-five years, and always managed to treat his fans well.
It doesn't take much.

exactly,

if jeter didnt feel like signing that day, so be it, but to tell people that should avert their eyes and not talk to him, that's ridiculous.

i am from the land of kirby puckett, and he would never treat the fans that way. I miss that guy.

no one was mobbed more than muhammad ali, and he signed for 40 years without treating people like this, he signed and signed and talked to people, he didnt act like this, that's for sure. how can Ali do it, and this guy can't act like a human being?

[chaddurbin]

Originally Posted by travrosty

exactly,

if jeter didnt feel like signing that day, so be it, but to tell people that should avert their eyes and not talk to him, that's ridiculous.

i am from the land of kirby puckett, and he would never treat the fans that way. I miss that guy.
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yea real nice guy, that puckett!

the difference between jeter and ruth, louis, and all the old timers who were accomodating is they didn't see the "fan" turn around and sell the signed ball for $200 right away, or louis didn't see 2 gloves, 3 trunks, and 5 index cards shoved in his face by 1 guy day after day after day.

[David Atkatz]

I'm sure there were pricks--like Jeter--in Ruth's day, too.
It's just that Ruth wasn't one of them.

I grew up in the Bronx, in the sixties. We used to hang out outside the Stadium for autographs all the time.
Most guys signed. Some didn't.
(I lost count of how many times Mantle pushed me away.)
And we didn't ask for ten signatures, or turn around and resell.

[chaddurbin]

that's what i'm saying...today if you sign for 10 guys, 9 of them are turning around to sell or getting the sig on consignment. that's the game, i don't fault the player for getting fed up. what's funny is when the players are not accomodating or polite to these hounds they go on chatboard and badmouth the players...how dare the players not let me make money off them? and i say all this knowing full well i'm in this hobby and a part of the cycle.

[David Atkatz]

You misunderstood me, Chad. It has nothing--or very little--to do with "today's" autograph collectors.
In every era, there are pricks, and there are menschen.

[drc]

Jeter should compromise and hand out 15% off coupons for his signed ball at the Steiner website.

[mschwade]

Originally Posted by drc

Jeter should compromise and hand out 15% off coupons for his signed ball at the Steiner website.

I know you are trying to be funny, but it reminds me of a story. I grew up in Dublin, Ohio, home of Wendy's. My brother worked at a up-scale car wash and when Dave Thomas brought his car through, guys were not tipped. They received a coupon for 50 cents off a Single