How to Get Baseball Player Autographs

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And one of the few times that I'll actually admit screaming like a little girl is when I get a big time player's autograph. I'm not only a Baseball fan, but I'm also a Football fan. I've got Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, all these big super stars from when the 49ers were great. I got all those autographs, I got to meet, spend some time with them. It was exciting, but the fact is that even at that age I had to realize how I had to treat these people. It's not something that they are required to do and you have to make sure that you, that you treat them with respect, just like they would treat you with respect in return. So if you're yelling at somebody, "Hey, Joe Blow, You're mommas ugly and I want your autograph now." You're not going to get it. You have to treat people with respect and that's very important as part of the autograph hunting experience is that, you know what, stand back, let them get their batting practice done or let them talk to the coaches first. I will tell you the best time to get players is before, at Baseball games, is before batting practice or during batting practice. They have time to interact with you. That's their time, kind of, that's their down time. Once basically an hour before the game starts, that's when they have to get into their mode. That's when they get into playing mode and it's probably not the most appropriate thing to bug them at that time, because it is bugging. It would be like somebody coming into your work, when we're right in the middle of the meeting, somebody asks you for your autograph. You're not going to be to happy with that. It's going to throw you off. That's what they're doing. This is their job. So prior to a game, they're loose, they're, they want to interact with you because they like hearing your stories. They like, they actually like to hear that you love them, I mean, that is something, everybody loves to be loved. At least I love to be loved. I think that it is very important that you realize and respect people's time and I think right before the game, about, if you can get there two hours before the game. You watch an hour of batting practice. You have a way to get down to the field because security is very lax, they let you get right down really close to the players. They'll sit there and sign 500 autographs. They have no problems with that because they know how much it means to you and in return they are getting gratification too. After the game the access is very restricted. They have a parking lot. They have a player's parking lot and a lot of times there is very heavy security. They'll let you sit around it and if the players choose to stop in their car right outside the gate and sign autographs, that's the only way. There's no guarantee. I will guarantee you will get a lot of autographs before the game. You've got to be willing to get there a couple of hours early but I will say it's kind of part of the experience. Watching batting practice is also a great way to get a foul ball, which we'll get into a little bit later, but it's a great way to interact with the players. Before a game, they're pretty loose, up until about an hour before the game. After the game, especially if they lost, I wouldn't even bother because they're just having a bad day at work. You don't really want anybody, you want that drive home to kind of just focus. I think it's very important that you respect the player's time whether it's before or after the game.

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