alright. so i've spent the past few days re organizing my autograph books. I just had them thrown into books in plastic pages for YEARS! I had gotten them all myself and have amassed quite a collection. but now i am sorting them into football (more than 2 whole books), college sports, baseball, basketball, motor sports, male and female actors. and the books are FULL! but it's bringing back so many cool memories from my "Glory Days."

Like my first signed 8x10 photo. Michael Jordan Hoops card photo. It was the very first photo i ever got signed (not my first autograph, but the first ever photo i got signed). I remember me and Kevin waiting outside the hotel for him and only having this one Hoops Card photo (it was a photo from the company "Hoops" who was, at that time, making photos that looked just like their brand of basketball cards. We waited all day, skipping a day of school to try and get it. He didn't sign going to or coming from the bus for practice, so we sat and waited all day with stupid ideas like having to take him to the game in my 73 Dodge Dart because, in our minds, the bus could have broken down and we were the only way he'd get to the game. Imagining that the car broke down on the way to the game and Michael would have to help us push. It was a silly, child's thought, but it warped our little minds to think this COULD happen. I also had a broken arm at the time. But he was really nice to us when he went to the game and signed not only my photo (and Kev's, who also had the same photo) but also my cast as he made fun of us when he said that he had seen us waiting outside all day while looking out from his window. Scottie Pippen wasn't nearly as nice and signed for the two of us as well, but he basically didn't want to be bothered... funny, that's how his career was too.

So, maybe i'll share more memories. but i think this could be a cool discussion. what memories do your autographs bring up. Either an in person story, or the value, in your heart, a certain trade or purchase has made you feel. even if you bought an autograph, the reasoning behind it has some sentimental value to you, right? share!