Hopefully, I'm not off topic on this. I attended the original 1989 Tropworld 500 HR show in Atlantic City. I remember even back then, Willie Mays was not very nice. He signed my ball in black pen and all others are in blue ink. Also Ted Williams didn't even look up at anyone when you said thank you or commented anything to him. He also rolled the baseball across the table and would have rolled across the floor if I didn't catch it. Also, for the record, Reggie Jackson signed NO autographs at that show. He had his arm in a cast, he attended , but that was the extent of it. The promoter, Thyberg Sports Marketing was not going to give money back for Jackson not signing. He eventually did. At the time, I was 24 and way into autographs and many of these guys were heroes of baseball to me. Gentlemen were there like McCovey, Schmidt, Banks, Killebrew, Mathews , Jackson. Others were not so kind Robinson, Mantle. Others were totally rude Ted Williams, Willie Mays.
I got my Reggie in Rochester NY to complete the ball.
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