He held Jack's own autographed baseball, working it around in his fingers.

It was Jack's autographed baseball, the one his son had hit out of Pirate Square.

Inside was an autographed baseball bat.

The tale went that Smith kept two autographed baseballs at his home, side by side, one signed by Henry Aaron, the other by Willie Mays.

"If I end up with him, you can have all my autographed baseball cards from when I was a kid, and my grandmother's silver."