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Posted By: Dan Bretta

This was at a show in Lincoln probably about 20 years ago now...I paid something like $10 for two autographs and I got a single signed baseball and I had an 8X10...I made the mistake of asking for a personalization on the photo for my brother-in-law. He uttered a swear word and looked at the guy next to him (Handler?, agent? bodyguard?) asked me what I wanted on it then signed and slid it across the table without looking at me.

Jim Palmer and Ozzie Smith tie for the nicest baseball guys I've met..both held conversations without any prompting from me and Palmer asked me how many autographs I wanted. He was signing at a local dept. store when he was pimping his Jockey underwear line. I got two autos that day one on his 83 Topps card and the other on a generic card that he provided...I turned down his offer of a signed mini-poster of him in his underwear.