GUEST: I was an official, an umpire, on the professional tennis circuit for about ten years, and I would travel from one tournament to the next, and when I would see a champion, I would ask them to autograph the sweatshirt.
APPRAISER: Did you ever umpire at Wimbledon?
GUEST: Never. I have been to Wimbledon, but I've never umpired at, officiated at Wimbledon.
APPRAISER: But I see that you umpired at the U.S. Open.
GUEST: Many times, many times.
APPRAISER: So a lot of the signatures you got there?
GUEST: Yes, and all out of uniform.
APPRAISER: And the criteria here, by the way, was...
GUEST: Pretty much, you had to have a Wimbledon title.
APPRAISER: Okay, so for instance, we have Billie Jean King, great Wimbledon champion. Rod Laver, who won it four times. Then we got John McEnroe, Venus Williams, five-time Wimbledon champion as of 2017, and the great Martina, who won nine Wimbledon championships. What were they like when they signed this for you? What did they think of this?
GUEST: A number of them looked at it and they were very pleased to be able to sign it. Venus looked at it and said, "My gosh, how old is this shirt?" And, "I would love to sign it." And so, she signed it as boldly as you possibly could.
APPRAISER: I would put an auction estimate on it of probably $1,000 to $1,500.
GUEST: Excellent, excellent.
APPRAISER: And I would insure it for $3,000.
GUEST: $3,000-- all right, excellent.
