If the average collector wants to secure an autograph from Tom Brady, it’ll cost you at least $1,600+ as part of Brady’s Fanatics signing deal. If you had access, though, Brady was unfailingly generous with autograph requests for family and friends of fellow players.
Kyle Rudolph was Brady’s teammate during his final season with the Tampa Bay Bucs and told NFL reporter Peter King in a recent interview that Brady was not just a great teammate who didn’t put on airs, he was an accommodating signer.
“My experience with Tom was incredible,” Rudolph said. “First, the way he treated people. The way he treated the Glazer family [Bucs owners] is exactly the way he treated the janitor at 6:30 at night when he and maybe one or two other guys were the last players in the building. Second, the way he treated his teammates. Tom had an empty locker next to him. I would look over there and every day, guys would put helmets, jerseys, pictures, footballs, all the stuff they wanted Tom to sign for them. There’d be notes on the stuff, a post-it note on a football—‘Sign this for Jimmy, it’s his birthday.’ At the end of the day, almost every day, he’d sit there and sign everything.”
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KCAL-TV visited the recent Burbank Card Show where Dodgers rookie James Outman, popular former pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and ex-catcher Mike Scioscia were signing autographs.
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Police in one Canadian community are looking for two men and a woman who stole a sizeable number of sports cards from a business Monday.
Authorities in Guelph, Ontario say the trio entered a business around 7:30 PM, headed to where the sports card boxes and packs were displayed and started loading more than 200 unopened items into totes they’d placed in shopping cards. The store estimated the loss at over $10,000 Canadian.
The business wasn’t identified but there’s a Walmart on the street where the theft took place and police say the cards were displayed in the toy department.
Two suspects eventually left the store through a fire exit, meeting up with the third, who had previously left the store and was waiting outside in a older model silver Volvo with no license plates. The totes then place in the getaway car and the three drove off.
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Shooting shirts and warmups worn by the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals are up for grabs at NBA Auctions.
Some are game-worn, others game-issued. All have $200 openers.
Jimmy Butler’s Game 1 shirt currently tops bidding, which runs through Sept. 28.
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