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Steve Garvey signed baseball.  Obtained through purchase (Tidewater Sports).  He wrote HOF on it... Steve played for the Los Angeles Dodgers 1969-1982 and San Diego Padres from 1983-1987. Garvey is one of only two players to have started an All-Star Game as a write-in vote. Garvey set a National League record with 1207 consecutive games played.

On October 6, 1984, during Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, Garvey hit a two-run walk-off home run off of Lee Smith in the 9th inning to give the Padres a 7 to 5 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The next day, the Padres won the National League pennant for the first time in franchise history. Garvey wound up being named the 1984 NLCS' Most Valuable Player.