My new purchase....
yankeeno7
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First, I want to thank those who purchased from me to help me get the remaining funds I needed for this item.
I purchased this Willie Mays signed bat...there is one more if anyone wants to jump on it! Why this one? Well, there are others on ebay that are signed on Willie Mays pro model bats, others that are also psa/dna...but this one was just a bit cheaper AND it has the Say Hey hologram attached. Considering what Mays now charges to sign a bat and then I look at other deceased HOFers his caliber, I think its a very safe "investment" for my collection. I am not at all a Mays fan but I would like certain single signed bats for my collection. Mays is one of them.
Mays Signed Bat
I purchased this Willie Mays signed bat...there is one more if anyone wants to jump on it! Why this one? Well, there are others on ebay that are signed on Willie Mays pro model bats, others that are also psa/dna...but this one was just a bit cheaper AND it has the Say Hey hologram attached. Considering what Mays now charges to sign a bat and then I look at other deceased HOFers his caliber, I think its a very safe "investment" for my collection. I am not at all a Mays fan but I would like certain single signed bats for my collection. Mays is one of them.
Mays Signed Bat
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I remember going to a collectors house who had about 90 signed bats, was missing the mays - had a "say hey" signed photo in pencil though.
Mike
Willie Mays is a scumbag.
Whose auction was that? Every Word Being Capitalized Drives Me Nuts. Don't People Learn Anything In Skool? OhEmGee.
I don't blame Willie at all for whatever made him give up pretending he likes people. I admire him for that actually.
<< <i>That's a great bat Barry, nice snag.
I don't blame Willie at all for whatever made him give up pretending he likes people. I admire him for that actually.
I'm not a big fan of the human species either, but that's not the issue. People are paying a lot of money for him to sign his name. I don't even care that he doesn't go out of his way to be warm and friendly to people, but it has been well documented time and time again that he will intentionally ruin multi-signed items if he's not the first one to sign. He notoriously signs over Mantle's name on anything involving Willie/Mickey/Duke. I also heard he signed a 500HR program upside down and ruined somebody's Clemente ball by signing over Clemente's name. The guy who had the 500HR program later took it up to Ernie Banks, and Ernie just sighed, "Willie," and shook his head.
There was a two-day show in Atlantic City about 10 years ago where he was scheduled to sign on Saturday. There was a guy who was collecting 500HR club individual bats with inscriptions, so he paid for one inscription. Willie took the bat, saw the inscription ticket, and immediately signed Say Hey Kid under his name. The collector then asked him to sign 660HR. Willie told him he'd have to pay another $60.
The following day, he came downstairs from his room and started signing for $20 in the ticket sales area (a total affront to the show's promoter), then went into the casino and gambled it all away.
<< <i>Too bad old players dont collect royalties. You have to think what he would be worth in today's game. Grumpy old man, sure. We don't know what he went through in the 40's,50's and 60's. For some reason, I don't think it was smiles and compliments most of the time. >>
I'm the absolute last person to condone or excuse the travesty of injustice that minorities had to endure prior to the civil rights movement, and to a certain degree, continue to have to endure today. I heard a story about Bob Gibson totally blowing a gasket at a signing when somebody asked him to sign a program from a Negro Leagues game that took place at least 10 years before Gibson had ever pitched in a major league game. I think that guy was completely out of line, and Gibson was 100% within his rights to throw a temper tantrum. Just because Gibson is black doesn't mean it's cool to ask him to sign memorabilia from the Negro Leagues. If he had actually played in the Negro Leagues, it would be a different story, but that's not the case. I wonder why the collector didn't ask Whitey Ford to sign that Negro Leagues program - Ford's signature on such an item would be just as appropriate as Gibson's.
But unlike Mays, if you ask Gibson to sign a more traditional item that actually has some relevance to his baseball career, he is cordial and pleasant. I've spoken to him at two different shows and never even got his autograph, but he was always nice to me and had a decent conversation. I asked him about the World Series and about all the times he plunked Frank Robinson. Seemed like a really nice guy to me, same as Banks, Sandberg, Mattingly, Schmidt, and Mariano Rivera.
Whatever injustices occurred in the 40s, 50s, and 60s (and there were many) are no excuse for Willie to deface people's property in the 21st century when people are paying him to sign his name.