Fla. man captures record for most signed baseballs

[Old Sweater]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-autographedbaseballs-record


ODESSA, Fla. (AP)—Assembling more than 4,000 autographed baseballs, it turns out, may not have been as tough a task for Dennis Schrader as proving the collection was a world record.

The Guinness Book of World Records originally rejected Schrader’s claim because the signatures on all 4,020 balls couldn’t be authenticated.

About a year ago, he started up his campaign again in earnest. He made copies of authenticity documents for the balls he got at auctions and such, and prepared his own papers for signatures he obtained himself. He even had to get an accountant to do an inventory, and included letters from St. Petersburg’s mayor and other prominent people who have seen the collection.

Ain't that something? Valued at 2-3mil. Hobby or obsession? A little of both but my cap is off to the guy.

[RickD]

Schrader insists that home’s security measures, plus the fact that he keeps some guns around, make it pointless for him to insure the collection.

“It’s fireproof, it’s bomb proof,” he says of his showroom/vault. “If there’s a tornado warning, we come in here with a beer and sit down.”



Too funny! Drunk with a gun gonna shoot ya if you try to raid him during a tornado!

Cool story though and I would love to have those things to pass on to my kids....ok I'd be dead actually cause my wife would have killed me for spending so much on baseballs!

[yankeebiscuitfan]

At least he got some baseballs signed. Corey had something else signed (according to himself...) :lol:

[TTMCentral]

I was going to post this. The problem is that he is buying off Ebay....The records show 45% of Ebay is Fake so....He better watch out

[RickD]

Well not getting authentic items (from reputable sources) can de-value the whole collection.

[yankeebiscuitfan]

If he has bought signed baseballs of 1950's Brooklyn players, they are all fake. Those balls were signed by the batboy who had mastered all of the Dodgers players' signatures.

[RickD]

So many of the players did that in the days of old. Heck, some probably do that today!