Last year before a spring training workout, I was talking with Mets manager Terry Collins when some kids came up and asked him to add his autograph to a ball on which they had already acquired a few other "signatures." He looked at the ball and asked the kids, "Who are these guys, are they on my team? I can't read a single autograph on here."
Collins told me that he tells his players to take time and sign autographs that are legible. "I don't understand why anyone would want to sign - or get - an autograph that you can't read," he said. I told him a quote that someone had told me (and I'm ashamed to say I can't remember who - maybe Killebrew, it sounds like him) - "I've never understood why anyone would work their whole life to reach the Major Leagues, to be famous and for people to know who they are - and then sign an autograph that no one can read." That pretty much sums it up.
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