Has a player ever wanted your Game Used item back?

[shoremen44]

Re: Has a player ever wanted your Game Used item back?

Has anyone ever gone out of their way to track down a player to see if they may want an item that might be special to them?

If so....Is it to make huge $ or just to be a good guy?

I think that I would probably fall into the "Good Guy" category.

I sent Pat Riley a bat that his dad had used... I ate the cost, i figured it would be special to him... he sent me a very nice note and an autographed book

[TNTtoys]

Re: Has a player ever wanted your Game Used item back?

I have had 4 such experiences this year alone. I'll leave off the player names, because I don't think it would be right to "out" them...

1. Player looked at jersey and told me "I wish I still had this"

2. Player asked me where I got this and wanted to know if I would part with it. I politely declined, and he then asked if he could take a picture of himself, his son (who attended the signing), me and my two boys (one of them holding up the jersey).

3. Player's family member found my contact details and emailed me out of the blue, asking how they would go about finding the jerseys he once played in. I then was able to locate multiple jerseys of the former player and send them to him at my cost.

4. I received the contact details of a former player whose jersey I have. I offered the jersey to him at my cost. He said "no thanks."

[Mulligans]

Re: Has a player ever wanted your Game Used item back?

Has anyone ever gone out of their way to track down a player to see if they may want an item that might be special to them?

If so....Is it to make huge $ or just to be a good guy?

I think that I would probably fall into the "Good Guy" category.

[gaytorhater703]

Re: Has a player ever wanted your Game Used item back?

Sounds like it might have been someone trying to make you think it was him....and backed off when they realized you would prob want to meet face to face instead of just trading for a fake signature item in the mail

[Jayworld]

Re: Has a player ever wanted your Game Used item back?

Yes, I have a partial jersey in my collection; the partial tear-away jersey of A.J. "Jam" Jones who played for Texas in the late 1970s. He saw the photo of it on my SWC Helmet site about three years ago, and he was interested in obtaining it. I asked for a signed piece of memorabilia in return, which he had no problem with, but I have yet to hear anything further from him in the past two years....

[gaytorhater703]

So lets say you have a gamer jersey or bat/ball that was a milestone for the player....has that player ever offered to try to get the item back while you were trying to get them to sign it.....seems like a sticky situation....it might be your favorite item in your collection and you are a rabid fan...but how can you deny them the ownership of an item that has sentimental value to them....i would venture to guess most stories like this end up with the player offering other items game used or autographed as a trade...anyone got any stories like this.