Monday, May 16, 2011

Andy Phillips’ Autograph is Not Worthless; it’s Worth Much Less than Worthless




Poor Andy Phillips. After homering on the first major league pitch he ever saw, he went on to hit only 13 more, due partly to injury and personal misfortune. By all accounts, Phillips is a nice guy and has never been in serious trouble with the law or anything like that. Thus, unfortunately, it is solely his lack of success on the field that has pushed the value of his autograph to below $0. That’s right, his autograph is worth $-7.00:

Price for Andy Phillips Autographed Official Major League Baseball: $9.99 (if you don't want to give them your e-mail address, screenshot is here)

Price for regular Official Major League Baseball: $16.99

Need some pregame fungo balls? Might as well buy out the Andy Phillips balls from Steiner. They’ll PAY you to take them over an unsigned ball. Granted, if I signed a baseball, I’d drive down the value too, since it would then be “blemished.” But I never played in the majors – are there no Andy Phillips fans anywhere?

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