Posted by wylie715 on 8/4/2023 3:08:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Lennybruce26 on 8/3/2023 11:19:00 PM (view original):
Posted by wylie715 on 8/3/2023 10:19:00 PM (view original):
Posted by Lennybruce26 on 8/3/2023 8:33:00 AM (view original):
Posted by wylie715 on 8/2/2023 10:41:00 PM (view original):
well, if you consider asking for an autograph a personal connection, have at it. There's a difference between someone's autograph on a piece or artwork and someone's autograph on a plain piece of paper. I have no problems with autograph collectors, just don't see the point.
The autograph itself is the personal connection.
does whoever you are asking for an autograph ever ask you for yours? Does that mean they have no connection?
I don’t understand your comment.
Also most people with an enormous collection such as myself with autographs such as Ty Cobb to Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson to Sugar Ray Robinson and Bogie and Jimmy Stewart and Montgomery Clift etc do not get them in person.
I have received some in person. Some by happenstance and some at shows.
The single most beautiful signatures of a major celebrity that I have is Humphrey Bogart.
Mickey Mantle is one of the most artful of the sports signatures Imo.
In his time he was one of many who signed with great deliberation to give the fan something special.
Believe it or not that was a prevailing attitude among celebrities from all fields until the 80s and 90s.
Also there have always been a lot of athletes since memorabilia shows once began that become signers at shows because they enjoy the fans and feel a gratitude for the adulation. Many retired big stars who did not need the money would do shows.
so, you didn't even get most of your autographs personally, but somehow you have a connection with the autograph signer? Not sure how that works, but it is not worth arguing about. You enjoy collecting autographs, and I don't. Nothing wrong with either of those positions.
However it works - it works for millions of others who love autographs. Is it really that much different then anything that anyone collects. Almost everyone has collected something or another in their life.
why do some people collect first editions if they can buy any later addition for 10% or why does anyone spend good money for baseball cards. What does it do for them. Or comic books and rare comic books
or stamps - or old coins to sit in a box or anything else.
There are many reasons for the collection of anything by anybody. I wouldn’t probe so deeply into the why.
That is personal to the individual who collects anything.
I guarantee that any boxing fan alive would love my collection of over 100 hall of famers to look at and marvel over and have - Sugar Ray and Sugar Ray and Dempsey and Ali and Rocky M and Foreman and Duran and Joe Louis and all the rest and the 34-40 others not in the Hall.
Why does Phil Collins collect Alamo memorabilia.
Some people collect coffee cups they never use
or video games football cards.
Ask them - not me. I am one of billions that collect stuff and one of millions who have been desirous of getting autographs.
In the 40s and 50s it was one of the biggest hobbies in the United States. Maybe the biggest after stamps and coins.
Enjoy what you like and don’t worry so much about why other people enjoy certain things that do not interest you.
Am I here to amuse you?
Ps - it would not occur to me to wonder why you are not interested in autographs. Knowing why or why not does not interest me. Nor should it which is the point.
8/4/2023 5:22 PM (edited)