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New topic: the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
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the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
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the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
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the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
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The first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Archie Griffin, the Ohio State football star, when he came to my elementary school for a Reading is Fundamental event
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the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
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the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing. ETA: On the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any old-time Giants fans remember that cover.
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the first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing. ETA: On the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any old-time Giants fans remember that cover.
  10. Tony Gabriel in 1976, I think, the year Ottawa won the CFL’s Grey Cup with the comeback and The Catch. IMHO one of the classiest athletes of all time.
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Reported

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(Not adding to the list. Fixing my #9, and moving beyond that spam advert.)

The first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing he had. Clark autographed the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any long-ago Giants fans remember that issue.
  10. Tony Gabriel in 1976, I think, the year Ottawa won the CFL’s Grey Cup with the comeback and The Catch. IMHO one of the classiest athletes of all time.
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I continue to work on the list of categories so far. For the 18,000+ posts I have this list by 1,000s of posts.

BD = Bakers Dozen and BDC = Bakers Dozen Category

BD by the 1000s (Post #)

(
Also in my test thread over on ATMB
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16441545#post16441545
)
BD Post #1 on 2010-08-04 by Idle Thoughts
(BDC: Films of Arnold Schwarzenegger)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12764026#post12764026

BD Post #1,000 on 2010-09-22 by Infovore
(BDC: One Named Celebrities)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12943532#post12943532

BD Post #2,000 on 2010-11-04 by notfrommensa
(BDC: Herbs/Spices found in a cooks Spice Rack)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13105148#post13105148

BD Post #3,000 on 2011-01-03 by Annie X-mas
(BDC: Hugo winning novels)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13311535#post13311535

BD Post #4,000 on 2011-03-06 by Elendil’s Heir
(BDC: Movies starring Kathy Bates)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13539827#post13539827

BD Post #5,000 on 2011-04-21 by Sternvogel
(BDC: TV pets)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13716150#post13716150

BD Post #6,000 on 2011-06-14 by Sternvogel
(BDC: cities and their original names)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13916008#post13916008

BD Post #7,000 on 2011-08-16 by Elendil’s Heir
(BDC: Places you want to visit because of a movie, and the film that stoked this desire)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14146755#post14146755

BD Post #8,000 on 2011-10-12 by Ponch8
(BDC: Non electric machines)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14349911#post14349911

BD Post #9,000 on 2011-12-07 by Sparky812
(BDC: Comic book superheroes who have “died” and come back to life)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14539223#post14539223

BD Post #10,000 on 2012-03-11 by Little Nemo
(BDC: Dope strain names)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14856541#post14856541

BD Post #11,000 on 2012-05-20 by Little Nemo
(BDC: Adjectives you never want to hear your doctor use)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15083123#post15083123

BD Post #12,000 on 2012-08-30 by Ponch8
(BDC: A USA State You Want to Visit)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15439285#post15439285

BD Post #13,000 on 2012-10-30 by Elendil’s Heir
(BDC: Movie series that had at least four movies)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15645053#post15645053

BD Post #14,000 on 2013-01-24 by EmilyG
(BDC: Night sounds in the country)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15935019#post15935019

BD Post #15,000 on 2013-03-21 by echo7tango
(BDC: Medical School Graduates Famous For Something BESIDES Medicine)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16119108#post16119108

BD Post #16,000 on 2013-04-25 by echo7tango
(BDC: 13 Famous Female Scientists)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16232263#post16232263

BD Post #17,000 on 2013-05-30 by Prof. Pepperwinkle
(BDC: Fictional characters who wear a mask)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16337589#post16337589

BD Post #18,000 on 2013-07-01 by The Other Jeffrey Lebowski
(BDC: Diner food)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16432087#post16432087

Now back to our game, currently here:
The first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing he had. Clark autographed the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any long-ago Giants fans remember that issue.
  10. Tony Gabriel in 1976, I think, the year Ottawa won the CFL’s Grey Cup with the comeback and The Catch. IMHO one of the classiest athletes of all time.
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The first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing he had. Clark autographed the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any long-ago Giants fans remember that issue.
  10. Tony Gabriel in 1976, I think, the year Ottawa won the CFL’s Grey Cup with the comeback and The Catch. IMHO one of the classiest athletes of all time.
  11. Actually the only athletes I’ve ever gotten an autograph from were Darryl Sittler and Lanny McDonald simultaneously at a mall well after their retirement.
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Many thanks, echo7tango, for all your hard work. You are amazing, and we appreciate it.

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The first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing he had. Clark autographed the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any long-ago Giants fans remember that issue.
  10. Tony Gabriel in 1976, I think, the year Ottawa won the CFL’s Grey Cup with the comeback and The Catch. IMHO one of the classiest athletes of all time.
  11. Actually the only athletes I’ve ever gotten an autograph from were Darryl Sittler and Lanny McDonald simultaneously at a mall well after their retirement.
  12. Ty Cobb, when his restless shade possessed my cousin. He tattooed his signature onto my Vietnamese potbellied pig, Nguyen Dixie.

(Not really, but the thread’s been stuck in the mud a while, just trying to get it moving.)

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The first athlete you ever got an autograph from.

  1. Earl Battey, backup catcher of the Minnesota Twins (which is why I, a native New Yorker, was a Twins fan as a kid)
  2. Mickey Mantle, Yankee baseball star (okay, my Dad got it for me)
  3. Bobby Orr, being a huge Boston Bruins fan.
  4. Curley “Boo” Johnson, a Harlem Globetrotter from my hometown; possibly the ONLY athlete I’ve gotten an autograph from.
  5. Charlie “King Kong” Keller, or so I thought, until my father let me know that the guy was a rummy and just playing me a fool, which I was - I was 8!! The real first was either Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, or Dave DeBusschere, which I got consecutively.
  6. Gary Carter in early 1987
  7. Oscar Gamble, ca. 2001- He owns townhouses lived in by his relatives on a street where I owned a townhouse and I got his autograph for a friend who collects sports memorabilia. (Nice guy, but I understand his baseball record is extremely undistinguished.)
  8. Darryl Strawberry, ca. 1980 - When he was in the rookie league of the minors. It was his first game at the home field. He hit a broken bat double for his first at bat. I got the bat and had him sign it.
  9. “Will the Thrill”, Will Clark, in 1986 during his rookie season at Candlestick Park. What a sweet, sweet swing he had. Clark autographed the cover of the SF Giants magazine, the one with Clark hanging onto the side of a cable car, if any long-ago Giants fans remember that issue.
  10. Tony Gabriel in 1976, I think, the year Ottawa won the CFL’s Grey Cup with the comeback and The Catch. IMHO one of the classiest athletes of all time.
  11. Actually the only athletes I’ve ever gotten an autograph from were Darryl Sittler and Lanny McDonald simultaneously at a mall well after their retirement.
  12. Ty Cobb, when his restless shade possessed my cousin. He tattooed his signature onto my Vietnamese potbellied pig, Nguyen Dixie.
  13. My spouse, who’s scored several goals in the EEEE coed hockey league before retiring due to a toe injury, signed a check for me. Does that count? I hope so, because we need a new category.

I’ll pass the next one since my answer was silly, with one restriction: No sports!

ETA: Actually, no I won’t. Here’s a fun one:

Unusual sexual kinks/fetishes you’ve seen/heard actual reference to (keep it PG-13)

  1. Women stepping on gas pedals in high heels
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nm

Ninjad.

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Alliterative names, AA through MM.

  1. Amy Adams
  2. Burt Bacharach
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Alliterative names, AA through MM.

  1. Amy Adams
  2. Burt Bacharach
  3. Chevy Chase
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Hold on, I got ninja’ed. I got mine in before this one. Check my post.

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Ah, okay, well, hmm…

Unusual sexual kinks/fetishes you’ve seen/heard actual reference to (keep it PG-13)

  1. Women stepping on gas pedals in high heels
  2. Couple tied together with ropes by 3rd party who unties them the next morning