Our autograph seeking adventures

     Myself and my three sons have had a good run over the last few years with collecting autographs. We primarily collect major league baseball, NHL ice hockey, NCAA basketball, and NCAA football autographs. We collect these autographs for our personal collection. We have never sold any of the autographs we have collected. Although there are other resources on the web about autograph collecting, we think our successes and failures will help others who are looking to collect autographs of athletes. The vast majority of our success has come without paying for the autograph (although we have done that). And we have very little "insider" help. Only once have we attended an event where we received quite a few autographs where we had "special access".