What a piece of garbage.

Knuckles

Don't sign baseballs unless your a baseball player. You don't see baseball players signing hockey pucks and basketballs.
Also, what a horrible, horrible! signature.

Knuckles

Man Upper Deck...

They're nice looking cards other than the crappy sigs.. but why a baseball.. use a little piece of a basketball.







k, i'm done.

mudflap02

I don't even think Maddux tries.



I never understood Willie's auto either.

mudflap02

Yao looks like he's trying to explain Brownian Motion to a high school chemistry class.

Knuckles

by the way mud those cards will go in the mail tomorrow morning.

easttexascardsandgames

Players from other sports as well as celebrities have been signing baseballs for years, many collectors like them because they are cheaper and easier to store. i like them, but on the flip side that could be one of the reasons the signatures are sloppy too is because the players are not as accustomed to signing baseballs.

goudeygold

Or..... maybe its a result of not exactly getting the best grades in school, or jumping into the NBA prematurely, or maybe coming from rural china? did I just say that?! yikes!! Either way, I think alot of players could care less about the oversaturated collectible market. And maybe for good reason.

Also, these people aren't signing an actual round ball on these cards. I'm sure they sign it with the ball already "flat" So not being used to signing a ball isn't a valid excuse. However, signing a basketball would be really crappy due to the bumps. May as well have your toddler sign it. My 4 year old can put the B and G above to shame!!

GG

CDsNuts

Yeah, I don't think there's any way to sign a basketball small enough to fit on the card. Still, the baseball is just retarded. Just have use fake piece of flat basketball.

Lee

WinPitcher

I agree the Yonkers School district is in sad shape.

helionaut

That Yao Ming sig, what is that? Is it even letters? It's not Chinese, which would've been cool. It looks sort of like you might find "Yamg" in there but he must've been getting fouled while he was signing it.

Knuckles

I think that's as nice as his signature gets..

If I got that sweet spot sigs card I posted above in a pack I would be choked and if he signed something of mine in person like that I would hand it back and say no thank you.

Brian48

Well, with Yaoh, I could probably give him a free pass since English is not his first language and I doubt he's done a lot of writing with it, but I don't know what's up with Mays and Maddux though. In fact, I don't know what the heck is up with alot of these auto's. Do these guys actually write like this when signing a contract or check?

boggs301012

UD made those for the cards ( or had them made) When the player signed them the pieces are flat.


James

Cubby

Funny stuff...LMAO.

Allen

Too bad UD chops up legit signed balls of some players to put on these cards. They usually cut off the begining and the end of the sig. They killed this Joe D auto. Why not just put a redemption for the signed ball? Im not sure if they have cut up a Ruth ball but I know they have chopped up a lot of nice ones.

Knuckles

That's horrible.

koby

I prefer the baseball over the foil stickers anyday. I can imagine having one sheet of foil stickers that a player signs. Then the foil stickers can be placed on a variety of different cards for different years.

Now that's lame.

duner

That ben gordon auto's interesting...it must be one of his first as a pro. If you look at his signature when he was at uconn it was appalling. If you look at the signatures he's done over the last couple months they're not even in the same league, you can't even tell they're written by the same person...that auto's the original evolution of his current one. To see someone's signature change so dramatically over one year, makes you wonder how on earth you can authenticate an auto that evolves over a half century.

p.s. whoever called me out on the boards at the beginning of the season and said "ben gordon won't even play, let alone be a factor as a rookie" I want to beg for public forgiveness now!!!

Knuckles

Now that's nice!

CDsNuts

If I was Yao, everytime an American asked for my auto I'd write something funny in Chinese, different every time. Who'd know the difference if he wrote "Americans are fat and lazy" or "He who begs for signature is like pathetic dog." Well, maybe a few collectors would know the difference.

Lee