Greatest Ted Williams Auto

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Originally Posted by Big Dave

Ted did quit signing for Upper Deck around 1993, and signed for less then two years due to a contractual dispute. He didn't signed for them anymore after that. The signature shown is a very late in life style. The only way Upper Deck could have gotten that, and the signature shown is real, is to have bought it, cause it wasn't signed in their presence.

This is part of my concern with the print I posted in this thread. http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=160994

My UDA cert has a copyright from 1996. I've noticed that many of the Williams autographed prints have a similar date, while most of the baseballs have a 1993 date.

So if UDA did not witness the signature, then they broke part of their claimed 5-step process, or there is a possibility that Teddy may have continued signing with UDA after 1993.

Yea... I'm confused.

ETA: Mystery solved (I think): Here is a SI article stating that Ted Williams and John Henry had a lawsuit with UDA, and after settling out-of-court, Teddy fulfilled the remainder of his contract starting in 1995. Article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...08/4/index.htm