Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

I found out that this postcard autograph of Lou Gehrig is worth $10,000.

INTERVIEWER

How did that feel?

GUEST

I'm still stunned.

INTERVIEWER

What was it like to learn that it was a real signature?

GUEST

Well, that was actually my first question and I was relieved because I paid a lot to frame it. I didn't want to frame a worthless piece of paper. I have a lot of rabid baseball fans in the family and this will excite them tremendously. Well, I think when you hear Lou Gehrig most people today think of ALS, what used to be called Lou Gehrig's Disease, and what a classy man he was the way that he admitted that he had reached the point where he had to leave baseball. What a hero he was in the way in which he did it. This was out of a scrapbook and there was another signature and that was Joe Medwick, but that's a player that not too many people remember anymore. It was something that belonged to my husband's grandfather and so, of course, there's the sentimental value from that. It's a treasure.

INTERVIEWER

It is a treasure.

GUEST

I didn't realize what a treasure it was.

INTERVIEWER

Do you think that you'll start collecting other kinds of autographs after this?

GUEST

I don't think so.

INTERVIEWER

No?

GUEST

How do you top this one?