What cool autographs do you have?

[SoxFan]

A few of mine:

Bill Clinton (book)
Barack Obama (book)
Colin Powell (book)
Paul Tsongas (book)
Janet Napolitano (baseball)
Rod Carew (game program)
Curt Schilling (baseball)
Johnny Bucyk (NHL legend; photo)
Steve Earle (concert ticket)

I also have an invitation to a 1991 NH Democratic fundraiser signed by Clinton, Tsongas, Harkin, Kerrey, Wilder, and Gene McCarthy.

[Callalily]

1. Only two.

David Sedaris - author/humorist
Stefon Harris - Jazz vibraphonist

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

2. A baseball signed by Cal Ripken Jr.

[Kali]

3. Emilio Estevez - on my Repo Man Video Cassette

Got it when they were here filming a scene from Young Guns II. I think that amused him.

[av8rdave]

4. Only a few

Maynard Ferguson
Stan Kenton
Warren Miller (skier/filmmaker)
Dave Scott (astronaut)
John Glenn

[begin_within]

5. Woodrow Wilson, Allen Ginsberg, Quentin Crisp

Wilson's is on one of my grandfather's USMC promotion papers. Ginsberg is a copy of "Howl" he signed for me. Crisp is one of his books he signed for me.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Ray Manzarek and Black Thought from The Roots.

[YankeyMCC]

7. Bobby Orr

on a Bruins puck and on a card (not rookie unfortunately)

Also, I have Ursula K Le Guin's signature on a "thank you" card she sent me in reply to a letter I sent her.

[SoxFan]

15. OK, now I'm jealous!

Bobby Orr is one autograph that I have always wanted.

Anyone who grew up in New England in the 60s or 70s knows what I mean!

[sniffa]

8. None anymore

But, I used to have:

Rick Carlisle
Randy Burridge
Rick Fox

And a House Of Pain poster signed by Everlast, Danny Boy and Lethal. That was my jackpot.

[Crazy Dave]

9. Somewhere in an old album

Jim Brown (football) and all the members of Bad Company and Cheap Trick.

[Richardo]

10. Hank Aaron and Buck O'Neill on basballs; and Ansel Adams in a book

...and Deforest Kelley and Matt Jefferies (designer of the original Starship Enterprise) from a Star Trek convention I went to when I was 15.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

11. Oh I love collecting autographs

Most of them aren't with me but at home in the US. From the top of my head:

Almost all the I Love Lucy Cast (I don't have Little Ricky's autograph, but hopefully I can get it in time!)
My favourite, Kirby Puckett, on a ball with other players like Hrbeck, Anderson, and more
Florence Henderson (playbill). I found this one by chance, I got a huge box of autographs from an auction and she had signed the playbill for Sound of Music... I keep trying to find out when she was in the show... I think it was after Julie Andrews did her role.
Joe Pesci (photo)
Eleanor Roosevelt (letter that I got at a discount from a friend who owns an antique shop)
A number of books signed, especially Al Franken! (DNC meetup in 2006)
Eisenhower (possibly autopenned but I've looked at it from all angles and I can see the marks where the pen leaves the paper at times with the autograph... I'm not sure)
A couple of 1920's pictures that are "signed" (I think they are autopenned) I got them in the same box of playbills (cheapo)... I've got to frame them! Lillian Gish, Rudy Valentino... they're definitely autopenned...
Obama, Klobuchar, and my representative on a Klobuchar placard.

That's off the top of my head... I've got more.. I wrote to a lot of celebrities and they replied very kindly (Bob Hope is my favourite, he remembered my grandfather (met him during one of the Road To.. movies) and made note of it)

Only the Kirby Puckett ball is here with me in the UK. My mum said, "I'll bring it back! It's worth a lot of money now!" I said no, it's my childhood and I don't know if I want to give my ball up. (I spent a lot of time meeting the Twins after the 1987 world series as they did signings in my hometown). I also have a framed photo signed by one of the soldiers who raised the flag in Iwo Jima, my friend knew him and they knew of my affinity for these things so my friend asked him if he could sign a photo for me. Just now I found out he passed away last year! :-( RIP Chuck.

[geardaddy]

19. Who's your rep?

I live in CD-5 so mine's Keith.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

26. Mine is

Tim Walz, MN-1

[Red State Rebel]

23. I'm a Classic Movie Buff....

I have Howard Keel (a signed check for vocal lessons), Doris Day, Kathryn Grayson, I have a dish from Ann Miller's estate, a letter from Christina Crawford, that's all I can remember right now :) I hope to get more!

[FunkyLeprechaun]

27. Me too!

I'm sort of stalled now that I'm living here... :-( All of my collections are still in the states and I miss them so! :-(

[hobbit709]

12. We have two- LBJ and Frank Zappa

[tinymontgomery]

13. Only , anybody want to take a guess on who they are?

Harvey Barnham
James Livingston
Micheal Thornton
Wesley Fox
Gary Littrell
Bruce Crandall

[nuxvomica]

14. I'm not much of an autograph hound so I only have one: Groucho

I wrote him a fan letter and I was a little disappointed he didn't reply (yes, this was when he was living). He or his "people" sent me an 8x10 glossy of him, Harpo and Chico with Groucho's (maybe) signature.

[geardaddy]

16. Mine...

- Howard Dean (campaign sign)
- Used to have a letter from Tricky Dick. Don't know where it went though. I wrote to him when I was 6 asking him to end the war in Vietnam. He actually wrote back!
- Patrick (Ace) Ntsoelengoe (MN Kicks)
- Allan Willey (MN Kick)

[fight4my3sons]

17. a few of mine

Angela Davis
Allen Ginsberg
Greg Graffin

That's all I can think of right now.

[SKKY]

18. I'm not a big "autograph" collector...

But I did kick it with these two cats for a couple of hours. It was pretty sweet!

[Guava Jelly]

20. I have a shitload

All four Kids in the hall,almost the complete cast of the office including Steve Carell, Several cast members from the tnt series Witchblade,several cast members from Babylon 5, Yvonne Craig (original bat girl),Julie Newmar(Catwoman),Al Franken,the pretenders(band),and several others that escape my mind at the moment.
Yea GoPsUx = Nerd.

[Tikki]

21. Mickey Leigh, Exene Cervenka, Sky Saxon and....

all of The Naughty Sweeties.


:)

Tikki

[EFerrari]

22. Smokey Robinson, Jackson Browne and Chris Speier.

Doug had bunches of them but I got these from my favorite guys. :)

[CreekDog]

39. i'm probably the only one here that remembers Chris Speier

Good years for the Giants. :hi:

[EFerrari]

42. Really good years!

:)

Charlie Fox recruited some great players -- even if he tried to sell 'em as soon as he could. lol

[Reverend_Smitty]

24. Some of mine

Babe Ruth (old picture)
Joe DiMaggio (picture)
Bob Gibson (picture)
Bob Feller (picture)
Cal Ripken Jr. (baseball)
Rollie Fingers (baseball)
Nolan Ryan (baseball)
Darryl Strawberry (baseball)
Barry Bonds-pre juicing (baseball)
Carlos Boozer, Shane Battier and Mike Dunleavey (college basketball program)
various other minor major leaguers on baseballs, programs, pictures etc

also have a signed copy of Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them by Al Franken

[Saturday]

25. Walter Payton, Emeril Lagasse (the chef) and some race car driver. nt

[Ptah]

28. Edgar Bergen

[Kutjara]

29. The Apollo 17 astronauts. They signed a picture I drew...

...of their mission patch. I met them when they came to Saipan (where I was living at the time) on their world tour in 1973.

[seemunkee]

30. Deck of cards signed by magicians

I used to go to magic conventions with my son and we took a pack of cards to get signed.
David Copperfield, Harry Blackstone Jr and Harry Anderson are probably the most well known outside magic circles

[Connonym]

31. Russ Feingold

(letter)

[oxymoron]

32. Just one - Ella Fitzgerald

And I was fortunate enough to get it directly from her after a concert. :)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

33. I'm not really one for autographs.

I think getting pictures taken with cool people are more useful. :shrug:
Duckie

[Inspired]

34. Alice Cooper from 1974...I kid you not! Back when I thought it was kind of cool to have it.

I also have many politician's autographs since I live in Iowa and get to see them a lot. Bill Clinton, Hillary, Obama, Edwards, Dean, etc.

[MilesColtrane]

35. I only have four.

Tom Landry
Jerry Lewis
Larry Storch
Rufus Thomas

[CreekDog]

36. Steve Young

that's the best I can do.

[flvegan]

37. "To flvegan, your pal, Ted Williams" baseball

It is one of my most prized possessions.

I also have a Nolan Ryan ball and a Carl Yastrzemski autographed poster. Let's see, some stuff signed by members of The Cult. Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion CD jacket signed by Matt Sorum. Jim Craig USA Hockey team poster.

I think that's it.

[Starry Messenger]

38. .

Spaulding Gray
Country Dick Montana

MPK

[WinkyDink]

40. Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Mario Cuomo, Smokey, Denzel, and Mike Hammer!

[bertha katzenengel]

41. Bobby Grich, Don Larson, Rita Mae Brown (Mrs. V.'s), Ray Bradbury, and Penny Marshall. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

43. My best one is Dan Quayle.

My sister went up to him at some stupid golf tournament in California and told him that her sister was a big fan. :rofl: Little did he know I was the person who literally laughed in his face when he walked by me at an event at the Washington Press Club the year prior.

[MrCoffee]

44. Nolan Ryan (baseball); Roger Clements (baseball);

Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell (same baseball); Billy Hatcher (baseball card); Tiger Woods (Starbucks cup, he was standing in line in front of me); the crew of STS-118 Space Shuttle Endevour (crew photo); Frank Black (concert stub); Kim Deal (concert stub)

I forgot about William Gibson (title page of Neuromancer); Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Conner (copy of the Constitution in my Constitutional Law casebook)

[Symarip]

45. Oddball stuff

Danny Elfman on about 15 different records
Buster Bloodvessel
Randi Rhodes
Al Franken
Desmond Dekker
Maddox from maddox.xmission.com

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. Hank Aaron (when he was playing and it was in my presence), Howard Dean, David Sedaris

[LSK]

47. Thom Hartmann and Mark Crispin Miller

[azmouse]

48. Capt. James Lovell of Apollo 13

[SurfingAtWork]

49. Jose Canseco on his Tops Rookie card.

I got in 87 or 88 at when he was doing spring training here in AZ. I think it was the year after he did the 40/40 thing. If not for the whole steroroids thing the card may have actually been worth something today.

[Initech]

50. I have a copy of Clerks signed by the entire cast.

[Beausoleil]

51. My wife used to work in the film industry

Two I can think of are John Ritter on the set of "Problem Child" and Steve Martin, who rarely gives autographs, near the set of "Leap of Faith". She met Liam Neeson at the same time, but I don't think she got his autograph.
I think she also has Hoyt Axton's and Buzz Aldrin's autographs from her work in video.

[montanto]

52. A few, x-files

Chris Carter, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (I had a huge crush on her, and actually met her backstage at a U2 concert) and other cast members, on a script of one of the shows.

I've got Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury (whom I met at the UCLA bookfest) and a bunch of others in literature: Pynchon, Delillo, Palahniuk, others.

[SoxFan]

59. You met Gillian Anderson backstage at a U2 show?

We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

[bigwillq]

53. Lots of former NFL players

I used to go to the Walter Camp weekend every year when I was a kid. It was in New Haven, CT and I have several books filled with autographs. I don't think I have gotten an autograph from someone "famous" since my last trip to Walter Camp. That was maybe 15, 16 years ago.

[MikeH]

54. Some of my autographs

Here are some of my autographs which I think are interesting enough to share; some of them might even be considered to be "cool".

Karl Haas, late host of long-time radio program Adventures in Good Music, autograph of his book Inside Music

Vincent Bugliosi, his book None Dare Call It Treason

Granny D, her book Walking Across America in My 90th Year

Thom Hartmann, his book Screwed, The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class

Gil Alexander-Moegerle, his book James Dobson's War On America

Robert Boston, of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, autograph of his book The Most Dangerous Man in America? (referring to Pat Robertson)

Keith Miller, Christian author noted for his books about relational aspects of the faith, and living out the Christian life as an adventure, autograph of a couple of his books (note: I no longer consider myself to be a Christian, but I still like and respect Keith Miller)

Bill Clinton, personal letter which I received from him from the White House in 1995 after I wrote to him expressing my concerns and feelings about a particular issue

[IndianaJones]

55. Warren Ellis. nt.

[DarkTirade]

56. None.

I've got a picture of me performing on stage with Shania Twain, but she didn't actually stop and acknowledge our existance in any way shape or form. Her other band members were mostly pretty cool, one of them gave us guitar picks with the logo of that tour on 'em. :P Unfortunately the last of them got lost a few years ago so the picture is the only evidence I have that I was ever there.

[mitchum]

57. DW Griffith...

Marlene Deitrich
Robert Mitchum
Johnny Cash
Tennessee Williams
Harry Crews
Warren Zevon
Chuck Connors
Sterling Morrison
John Cale
Maureen Tucker
Loretta Lynn
Hubert Selby
James Ellroy
Hyapatia Lee

some are first editions, some are photos, some are record sleeves, some are separate

[Lautremont]

58. Bob Clark.

[Sisaruus]

60. a few books and a media heroes trading card

Bill Moyers (2 books and a media heroes trading card)
Jimmy Carter (6 books)
Molly Ivins (4 books)
Gloria Steinem (book)
Laura Flanders (book)
Helen Thomas (2 books)
Vandana Shiva (2 books)
Howard Zinn (book)
Ralph Nader (2 books)
Grace Paley (book)
Chris Dodd (book)
Naomi Klein (book)
Isabelle Allende (book)
Adrienne Rich (3 books)

[Fran Kubelik]

61. Joni Mitchell

Van Morrison
Aretha Franklin
George Clinton

lots more.

[DFW]

62. My favorite was lost when my parents' house was sold

I had an autographed photo of JFK made out to me (his press secretary was
a friend of my Dad's). I have numerous ones made out to my dad, from Bobby
Kennedy onwards, and even an old book autographed by Mark Twain that my
grandparents left to me. I also kept a photo of FDR personally inscribed
to my paternal grandfather by "his friend, Franklin Roosevelt." I also have
a few notes to me from Bill Clinton, and a sixties LP album autographed by
the original members of the Dave Brubeck Quartet- Brubeck, Paul Desmond,
Joe Morello and Gene Wright.

[harmonicon]

63. Eddie Gomez

but I can't find it - that's why I remember that one.

Every member of Echo and the Bunnymen (the late 90's version).

The Lucksmiths.

[whistler162]

64. Let see...

Ethel Kennedy - book(collection of memorials from just after the assasination)
Elliot Roosevelt - book(As He Saw It)
Maria von Trapp - book

[Awsi Dooger]

65. Muhammad Ali, Bob Griese, Ted Hendricks

Nothing in the past 20 years. I should have collected more at big fights in Las Vegas but I'm not an autograph seeker.

[nadine_mn]

66. Al Gore - back of my pass the first summer he and Bill were in office

Back when I was a Young College Dem.... wahooo

[electricmonk]

67. Bob Dole

Ok, so it's not exactly a cool one. A friend of mine's grandfather was a big time Repub donor and Dole signed a Viagra clipboard for him. It says, "John, 'keep up' the good work." When John died a few years ago my friend got the clipboard and gave it to me as a gag since he knows how I feel about Dole and his type.

Also have a Harry F Byrd Jr autograph.

[SoxFan]

68. Give Dole credit

The guy has a good sense of humor!

[Graybeard]

69. Alfred Hitchcock

Instead of signing his name he drew the caricature sketch that opened his TV show. Cool!!

[Kickin_Donkey]

70. John Wooden ...

in a dog-eared copy of his book "They Call Me Coach." (I got it signed only a couple of years ago.)

The few others that I have are related to Cal athletics:
-- Joe Kapp, football player and coach
-- legendary basketball coach Pete Newell
-- Kevin Johnson, basketball player and possible mayor of Sacramento
-- Russ Critchfield, all-American basketball player in the 1960s

[momto3]

71. I have a few.

Being a science geek, I like to collect signatures of Nobel Laureates. I attended a meeting of Nobel Laureates when I was in grad school. I probably have 3 dozen signatures from laureates in the fields of medicine, chemistry and physics.

I also have an autographed picture of Bootsy Collins. He came to our house once when we lived in Cincinnati.

[kick-ass-bob]

72. Jim Valvano on a pic of himself

got it when I was 11, the year after NC State won the national championship.

[Bombero1956]

73. a few

Dennis Eckersley
Jim Rice
Terry O'Reilly
Cam Neely
Dale Earnhardt
Tony Stewart
Mark Martin
Caroline Rhea
Emeril Lagasse
Pam Tillis
Kurt Busch
Dale Jarrett
Brett Bodine
Todd Bodine
Geoff Bodine
Jeremy Mayfield
Rusty Wallace
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Jimmy Johnson
Richard Petty
Kyle Petty
Bill Elliot
Ken Schrader
Kenny Wallace
Ted Musgrave
Matt Kenseth
Steve Park
Michael Waltrip
Darrell Waltrip