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Originally Posted by MooseDog
3) This is conjecture on my part, but with the rise of eBay the numbers of people seeking autographs has risen (opportunists thinking they can profit from the autographs AND/OR the perception that an autograph has some intrisinc $$$ value), and those players who do want to sign autographs have to shorten the time it takes to sign as much as they can. One can see how a player in the minors may have a semi-decent autograph but as the years go by it gets worse and worse.
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I primarily work for two people, both are "famous" I use quotes because it's a hard thing to define.
One of them (I've been with him for 6 years) will sign anything put in front of him by anybody, as many as he's asked to sign, he will sign them with no hesitation. Ebayer? He doesn't care.
The other (who I've been with for 13 years) won't sign anything at airports, hotels, or entering / leaving a venue. If I take 3 things into his dressing room to get signed, I will seldom succeed completely. He won't sign a guitar or a guitar part for anybody, including me. He assumes we're all ebayers. He's the one with two signatures who I mentioned earlier.
Doug