Who was the first sport's signature you got in person?

chris777 · July 13, 2010 12:09PM

Mines was Larry Bird when I was a lot younger(I think high school). He came to the mall to do a signing.

otwcards · July 13, 2010 12:10PM

Another thread about a topic that has been discussed within the past 6 months.

Don't any of you ever use the search function before you start spewing out like you're the first to ever think of something?

chris777 · July 13, 2010 12:17PM

Update: I originally posted the question about...... who people plan to pass their cards down to if their family doesn't want it or will they sell it?......to...... who's their first in person sport's signature?

If anyone can search and find the topic about my original question, post the link, because I can't find it.

koufax · July 13, 2010 12:33PM

<< Another thread about a topic that has been discussed within the past 6 months.

Don't any of you ever use the search function before you start spewing out like you're the first to ever think of something? >>

WOW *rolls eyes*

otwcards · July 13, 2010 12:38PM

Interesting that you change the title and the content.

You are an absolute loser!

chris777 · July 13, 2010 12:40PM

Otwcards,

I changed it because you said it was brought up. However, I did a search and I couldn't find it.

skilow · July 13, 2010 12:44PM

Great thread!

It was Steve Trout from the visiting bullpen at Three Rivers Stadium. I just wish more people would sub his cards and put the 10s for sale.

otwcards · July 13, 2010 12:47PM

Try the search function.

Or just go back to posting partial scans.

Maybe you should look up a dictionary, too. "Mines" is not the correct usage of the possessive for personal ownership or a pluralization of "mine is."

otwcards · July 13, 2010 12:49PM

Did you complain to Trout because he wasn't Ron Santo or Willie Stargell?

chris777 · July 13, 2010 12:52PM

otwcards, I mentioned before that I would post full pics if I ever decide to post in the future.

mittec · July 13, 2010 12:59PM

Bryan Trottier at Playworld maybe 1980

mcadams · July 13, 2010 1:00PM

OTWCARDS = DBOTW

otwcards · July 13, 2010 1:07PM

<< OTWCARDS = DBOTW >>

Thank you. This coming from a weekly nominee.

If you had read the initial post title and content and read what the OP typically writes and does, you might actually have a clue.

Your nomination is so noted and coming from you, I take that as the word of an expert!

mcadams · July 13, 2010 1:13PM

<< 

<< OTWCARDS = DBOTW >>

Thank you. This coming from a weekly nominee.

If you had read the initial post title and content and read what the OP typically writes and does, you might actually have a clue.

Your nomination is so noted and coming from you, I take that as the word of an expert! >>

You sound especially angry tonight. Go bust a box of Bowman Chrome, have a beer, enjoy the all star game, and stop picking on new guys who might not know how everything works around here yet.

mccardguy1 · July 13, 2010 1:14PM

How about ths for an obscure name.... Reds reliever Clay Carroll. Got his auto at Wrigley Field in about 72 or 73!! Those were some good times!!

otwcards · July 13, 2010 1:17PM

<< 

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<< OTWCARDS = DBOTW >>

Thank you. This coming from a weekly nominee.

If you had read the initial post title and content and read what the OP typically writes and does, you might actually have a clue.

Your nomination is so noted and coming from you, I take that as the word of an expert! >>

You sound especially angry tonight. Go bust a box of Bowman Chrome, have a beer, enjoy the all star game, and stop picking on new guys who might not know how everything works around here yet. >>

If they were new and not recycled byproducts that have been here and punted, then maybe I'd have some compassion! But the stupidity level is not something that is so easily repeated. The continual retreads that come back and wreak havoc and clutter the boards with their inane recycled posts and games is just too much.

Angry tonight? Not at all. Just tired of the same trite crap and typical attempts to cover their tracks. The EDIT button should be eliminated. Right Mr. Navarro?

jradke4 · July 13, 2010 2:26PM

it was either bart starr (one a miller high life coaster) or john anderson...back in the early 80's.

NCDOLFAN · July 13, 2010 2:34PM

Manny Fernandez came to my elementary school in'73. He was my first in my '72 yearbook which now has the entire 1972 team's autographs in it.

HoofHearted · July 13, 2010 2:46PM

Billy Gardner's auto on a couple of the 1962 Topps cards he's on. I waited after a Denver Bear's game at Mile High Stadium when he was managing the Montreal Expo's AAA team back in the late '70s. I also got to meet his daughter Shelly during a game. She was very friendly!

thenavarro · July 13, 2010 2:48PM

The first autograph that I remember getting was in elementary school. It was Billy Lothridge, who played football for a few years. His daughter was one of my friends and he came out to the playground to play with us one day. I didn't know who he was other than "Lori's dad", but she told me used to be a pro player so I got his graph. Little did I know at that time that it would become a lifelong hobby so far. I still see Lori all the time, one of these days I need to thank her for introducing me to graphs.

Mike

melvin289 · July 13, 2010 2:57PM

The right fielder for the Salisbury, NC team in the old South Atlantic League, the SALLY league. His name was Danny Coker. A friend and I gave this guy a hard time all year every time Salisbury came to play the Gastonia Pirates. Their last trip through Gastonia that year (1960 or 61) we asked for his autograph and he actually gave it to us. Very nice of him.

Ron

koufax · July 13, 2010 2:58PM

My first in person auto was Fernando Valenzuela back in 1986. He came to my elementary school to talk to us kids. Well I did not understand him but 99% of the students did. Luckily for me, my sister, and the Smith brothers, there was an interpreter. He was really cool. And growing up in LA during those times--Fernando was like the President or Bill Cosby. He was a VERY big deal.Good times.

hammered · July 13, 2010 3:23PM

Lawrence McCutcheon (RB for the LA Rams), 1977 I think. I lived in SoCal and he was doing a signing at a clothing store near Ventura.

Guru · July 13, 2010 3:37PM

Ken Griffey, Jr. after a Mariners game when I was a kid. Can't remember what year it was, but I remember my Uncle, who lives in Seattle, walking me down to wear the team was coming out. He walked out and signed my baseball. I had no idea at the time who the guy was, but super happy I kept that ball.

SDSportsFan · July 13, 2010 4:42PM

I don't remember the exact player, but he was a member of the 1971 San Diego Padres. The first autographs I ever got were on game programs of the Padres from 1971-1973. Then in 1974, I started getting baseball cards signed. I also got "team" baseballs signed in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Then I went back to baseball cards only in 1977, 1978 and 1979. The only baseball cards I would not get signed were 1971, 1975, 1977, 1980 and 1982 Topps, since they had the facsimile autographs on them, and I've always felt they look bad with two signatures on them.

Steve

jaderock · July 13, 2010 4:42PM

Back in the 80s, on a day when me and my friends cut a period or two in school, we got Huey Lewis (of Huey Lewis and the News) autograph when we saw them in San Francisco's Chinatown on Ross Alley filming one of their music videos!

nightcrawler · July 13, 2010 6:11PM

First athlete was Bobby Orr 75, he was passing through my home town on a fishing trip. So he stopped at the school and signed autos for all the kids.

First ever auto was Stompin Tom Connors, The Hockey Song guy. Stood in line after he did a concert in 72.

sbfinley · July 13, 2010 6:45PM

Actually a funny story. When I was young my father took me to one of the "QB Legends" gatherings at the Opry Hotel here in Nashville. I don't remember the first signature I got but I threw up on John Brodie right after I took my picture with him. I still have the ball he signed.

zep33 · July 13, 2010 7:16PM

Staying at a Ramada Inn somewhere between MA and DC in the early 70s, The New York Knicks were staying there too. Got a bunch of them on a piece of paper but have no idea who or where that piece of paper ended up.

First one I remember was my mom taking me to meet Butch Hobson at a signing at a local bank in 1976

Ironmanfan · July 13, 2010 9:46PM

Mine was Archie Griffin.....He was still a Junior and had yet to win his first Heisman, however one of his middle school teachers was then my gym teacher and he brought Archie to school one day

mexpo75 · July 13, 2010 10:03PM

My first was joe torre when I was a kid while he was in team bus outside Wrigley Field. Most fun one was while sharing a beer with Charles Barkley one night in San Antonio while he was still playing.

WinPitcher · July 13, 2010 10:05PM

Mines was Phil Rizzuto when he was an announcer probably around 1966.

Damn Scott you on a roll.

Steve

jeffcbay · July 13, 2010 10:23PM

Mine was Rex Barney, former Brooklyn Dodger and Orioles PA Announcer. My only other in-person autograph was Boog Powell at Boog's BBQ at Oriole Park. I'm planning on getting Cal Ripken Jr.'s autograph at the National next month... needless to say I'm a bit nervous.

billwaltonsbeard · July 13, 2010 10:30PM

<< I'm planning on getting Cal Ripken Jr.'s autograph at the National next month... needless to say I'm a bit nervous. >>

You might want to leave that aluminum bat at home.

Nathaniel1960 · July 13, 2010 10:30PM

George Steinbrenner, 1980, Orlando FL.

jeffcbay · July 13, 2010 11:13PM

<< You might want to leave that aluminum bat at home. >>

lol... I don't think I'll need it there.

msassin · July 13, 2010 11:20PM

Jack Lambert ('82 I think) came to the local mall to sign at its grand opening.

QUITCRAB · July 13, 2010 11:28PM

Brooks Robinson..Summer of 1974..with my mom back to school shopping for clothes and he was signing free autographs at a store in Baltimore. Totally random. Had no idea he was going to be there.
I still have it! This summer I am taking my son to meet Brooks at The National Show! Going to have to pay this time around.
Scott

Check out this site a friend of mine put together...www.brooksrobinsontribute.com

click on the Oriole icon next to ADS/Brochures my autograph Brooks piece is in the fourth row all the way to the right

The site has cards-posters-memorbilia..almost everything

TNP777 · July 14, 2010 12:54AM

mine was the immortal Lenn Sakata. I win!

bhelser · July 14, 2010 1:07AM

Kevin Duckworth. I was about 9 getting a ride home from little league. I saw him standing on the corner. I grabbed my step-dad's business card as it was the only paper I could see and got it autographed. He was standing on the curb, I was on the street, so that added about 4" to his already massive stature....he was a giant!

nflhof · July 14, 2010 2:34AM

Bill Freehan for me at the Detroit Auto show in 1972. I still have the auto'd photo.

jlzinck · July 14, 2010 2:41AM

From the mid 70's I was at some gathering where players from all 4 Boston teams were supposed to come by and interact.

I was probably 9 at the time and along with my folks came a friend from school who wanted to meet Sam "Bam" Cunningham.

We must have been there for 90 minutes before Terry O'Reilly showed up 1st. He made time to go to each table and shake people's hands. He also stopped and sat at tables with kids.

He got to out table and signed a team issued photo and chatted when my friend asked who he was. Terry introduced himself and then told my friend James about playing hockey.

Terry was great. He was the only one who showed before we left.

K · July 14, 2010 2:57AM

I think mine was Dwight Evans. It might have been Ray Bourque, but after 20 years it's all just kinda blurring together.

mj23kg21 · July 14, 2010 2:58AM

Mine was Fran Tarkenton back in about 1977. He was doing a book signing at a mall. I think I waited in line about 3 or 4 hours so I was sure to get it. I still have the book.

pdub1819 · July 14, 2010 3:20AM

I remember getting Jim Abbot before a game at Angel Stadium. I also remember getting Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco on the same ticket stub, it's still somewhere at my parents house.

jeffcbay · July 14, 2010 3:39AM

<< Brooks Robinson..Summer of 1974..with my mom back to school shopping for clothes and he was signing free autographs at a store in Baltimore. Totally random. Had no idea he was going to be there.
I still have it! This summer I am taking my son to meet Brooks at The National Show! Going to have to pay this time around.
Scott

Check out this site a friend of mine put together...www.brooksrobinsontribute.com

click on the Oriole icon next to ADS/Brochures my autograph Brooks piece is in the fourth row all the way to the right

The site has cards-posters-memorbilia..almost everything >>

Nice!

Smuggo · July 14, 2010 4:56AM

Ken Boyer. I was a member of The School Boy Patrol and at the end of the school year we all got to go to a Cardinals game. I got several autos on the side of a popcorn megaphone type thing and he was the first.

digicat · July 14, 2010 5:07AM

Phillies prospect Rickey Jordan at a card show in 1989. I got 2 cards (89 Fleer and UD) and a ball auto'ed. He auto'ed the ball with a blue Sharpie. The auto faded/bled into a blue haze over the years.

koufax · July 14, 2010 5:16AM

<< I remember getting Jim Abbot before a game at Angel Stadium. I also remember getting Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco on the same ticket stub, it's still somewhere at my parents house. >>

Not to be a jerk and this is a serious question. Did you have to hold the card for Abbot while he signed. or was he at a table?

GB5HOF · July 14, 2010 5:28AM

Billy Sims or Al "Bubba" Baker. Detroit Lions training camp at Oakland University circa 1980-1981. I can't remember which one signed for me first.

lanemyer85 · July 14, 2010 6:22AM

Ryne Sandberg

Who was the first sport's signature you got in person?

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