Mailed Your Spring Training Autograph Requests Yet?

By JAY R. NEILL March 10, 2010 Are you ready for some nice weather and baseball season yet? I sure am and to prove it I have mailed 100 autograph requests to current players in care of their spring training addresses. In the March issue of Autograph we provided the spring training addresses for all [...]

Art Schlichter- Football Star Goes From Private Signings To A Private Cell

By JAY NEILL February 21, 2010 Growing up in Ohio, my first memories of college football are of watching Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter as he lead the Buckeyes from 1978 to 1981. He was the last starting quarterback for legendary Buckeyes coach Woody Hayes, and was in the lineup when Hayes’ infamous punch of [...]

HBO Hard Knocks — Did he really say that? Really?

By JAY NEILL February 21, 2010 In my 30+ years of autograph collecting I had one of my worst collecting experiences recently. It was not an in-person experience or through-the-mail, it came while watching Episode 4 of HBO’s Hard Knocks. Carson Palmer is the 2002 Heisman trophy winning quarterback from USC and the Cincinnati Bengals [...]

Lonnie Frey–The End of an Era (1910-2009)

By JAY NEILL February 21, 2010 It’s rare in history that you can see the page turn or hear the door close, but that was the case when former baseball player Lonny Frey passed away last week of natural causes at the age of 99 years old. Lonny was a major league second baseman and [...]