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Posted By: DJ

As a person who purchased over 50 of Ty Cobb's check stubs (I suppose Ty writing "gas bill $9.65" is rather obscure), something in Ty's writing itself perhaps allows that person to get "something" handwritten by a legend without forking over a large sum of money for a signature. As long as the piece is honest and not a forgery, why not milk it and give a collector a chance to own a very small piece of history that may mean something to that person. After all, some people find a one inch swatch of a jersey to their liking or a piece of baseball bat.

My lawyer friend was excited one day to own "two words" that George Washington wrote. It was nicely displayed, he felt it was $225 well worth it (more than $100 per word and one word was quite short....twelve total letters around $18 a letter)to him....not to me.

DJ