jjinfla
12-08-2011, 06:42 AM
I was just sitting here in my office waiting for AOL to re-boot, after it dumped me again, and my rack of 31 signed cue balls caught my attention. I started looking at each one and realized that I collected them from 2002 to 2005. Seems like only yesterday. To do it over I would not bother with cue balls but just use index cards. Getting signed cue balls caused too much dissention from the leaders, ie, Charlie. He even forbade his players to sign anything for fans. What a jerk.
I actually bought signed balls from Lee and Archer from their website. And I paid Ray Martin $30 to have him sign one for me. Had Charlie been selling blank cue balls (like I suggested to him) I would have bought them from him. I sure wouldn't buy any presigned balls from him. Just don't trust him. I want to see the player sign them.
Out of the 31 signed cue balls I have guess which one faded away. Yep. Ray's. Some black markers are better than others.
My pride and joy though is the IPT program where I have autographs from most of the players. Now I wish I would have gone to all the players and got their signatures - they were all willing to do so.
Over the years it just baffled me why promoters didn't produce a 2 or 4 page program for their tournaments. It would be an easy way for players to receive recognition. Plus make money on the programs.
These years sure did fly by.
Not playing much anymore and putting stuff on Ebay. No, Charlie, I am not selling signed cueballs on Ebay as you always feared, they are worthless to anyone else; priceless to me.
jjinfla
I actually bought signed balls from Lee and Archer from their website. And I paid Ray Martin $30 to have him sign one for me. Had Charlie been selling blank cue balls (like I suggested to him) I would have bought them from him. I sure wouldn't buy any presigned balls from him. Just don't trust him. I want to see the player sign them.
Out of the 31 signed cue balls I have guess which one faded away. Yep. Ray's. Some black markers are better than others.
My pride and joy though is the IPT program where I have autographs from most of the players. Now I wish I would have gone to all the players and got their signatures - they were all willing to do so.
Over the years it just baffled me why promoters didn't produce a 2 or 4 page program for their tournaments. It would be an easy way for players to receive recognition. Plus make money on the programs.
These years sure did fly by.
Not playing much anymore and putting stuff on Ebay. No, Charlie, I am not selling signed cueballs on Ebay as you always feared, they are worthless to anyone else; priceless to me.
jjinfla