We’re here to bring you top quality, authentic autographs from the sports stars we all know and love at the best value in the industry.
Our mission is to be the world's most trusted online sports autograph distributor, connecting all fans to their favorite players and moments in sports history, for a price that will keep your collection growing.
Online collecting can be a risky business. There are thousands of re-sellers in the online autograph world, which can make trusting your autographs tricky while shopping online.
In fact, different estimates have claimed that more than half of all signed memorabilia exchanged online is fake. A scary number if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for.
Even the real stuff usually has a hefty middle-man mark up. Most credible resellers will get their memorabilia from guys who do the signings (like us), and then mark it up significantly to cash in on huge margins. Go google “sports memorabilia” and compare our prices to see for yourself.
Instead, we’d rather make this statement sports memorabilia accessible to as many fans as possible, without any worries about fakes or hefty mark-ups. After-all, it’s the fans who make the games we all love possible.
The Beginnings
Rochester Sports Autographs has been a leader in the wholesale sports autograph industry for over a decade.
We started out exclusively as an autographed memorabilia wholesale company. We’d make deals with premier celebrities and pro athletes for time or number of autographs, and then sell the signed & authenticated memorabilia to 3rd party retailers and sports memorabilia shops.
If you’re a long time fan of the hobby, you are probably already familiar with our products whether you knew it or not. We have done thousands of signings in the past several years, and have been involved with many uprisings of companies that dominate the market today.
In 2017, we decided to bring our products directly to the collector. Since we started at the source of signed sports memorabilia, we now get the best prices and can pass the savings directly on to you.
Our end goal is to have the largest selection of sports memorabilia available at a price only RSA can offer. The one-stop-shop for all your autographed sports memorabilia needs. We'll see how it goes.
How It Works
95% of our autographs come from either sports shows or private signings. Sports shows are a congregation of collectors, vendors, and professional athletes. They happen throughout the year and The National Sports Collectors Convention is the largest.
During these shows, we are able to get hundreds of different athletes to sign all at once. It's a quick way of beefing up our selection significantly in a very short amount of time.
Many of our items also come from private signings.
Here, we’ll book the athlete or group of athletes (same team, location, etc.) for a certain amount of time or number of autographs. We then fly them out or go to them with our unsigned items, do the deal and bring it back to our warehouse.
Many of the current stars prefer to do it this way because they don’t have to deal with the large crowds and all of the commotion that comes with being a star. We try to get as many different types of product as possible when we sign private. Various helmet styles, different sized photos, different color jerseys, etc.
Many athletes have exclusive signing contracts with certain companies. If this is the case, we either do not hold these athletes or we get them from the contracted supplier.
Authentication
We work with JSA a lot. Actually, we work with them more than anyone else as we’re the largest JSA authenticated autograph distributor in the U.S.
A majority of our authentication will be JSA Witness Authenticated. Most of the time, there will be a JSA representative at each of our private signings and all of the shows.
We’ll get basic authentication sometimes if a representative can’t make it to the beginning of the signing or in the very rare occasion that we buy them from other companies. In these instances, we trust the expertise of our authenticators to confirm authenticity.
Professional athletes usually don’t want to be there for longer than necessary, so often times we have to work on their schedule and not vice-versa.
Some athletes will have exclusive contracts with suppliers who only use certain authentication companies. We carry all of the most credible including JSA, Beckett, PSA, Fanatics and more. You can check the item description to know what authentication will come with each autograph.
Our Products
We have a large selection of autographed sports memorabilia and it continues to grow each and every week.
Some of our most popular products include signed custom jerseys, autograph mystery boxes, framed sports jerseys and officially licensed memorabilia.
The licensed products are official NFL, MLB, NBA, etc. These include team footballs, baseballs, all helmets, bats, photos and more. All of these items will have the logos they are licensed for like Kansas City Chiefs, Rawlings, or Riddell. Pretty much everything on our site that isn’t a custom jersey falls into this category.
Custom jerseys are easily our top seller. These are hand-stitched, replica jerseys that do not have any team or brand logos on them. They are very popular in the sports collecting community and can usually be distinguished by their price and product name.
Authentic jerseys that are also signed will go for hundreds or thousands of dollars (depending on player) and will often have “Dallas Cowboys” or “NFL” in the product description. Custom jerseys will be much less expensive and often contain words like “custom” or “pro-style.”
But be careful! Some custom jerseys will be listed by the team name or league brand (often seen on Amazon). This is not allowed but is definitely out there a good bit. To be sure, always refer to the photos to see if the jersey you are supposed to receive does or does not contain official logos.
Mystery boxes are another one of our customer favorites. These products will contain however many specified pieces of random autographed & authenticated sports memorabilia in each box.
Each box type is made by pulling the entire run of a series (usually 50+ different items), boxing them up, and then pulling at random when an order comes in. Our average margin is lower across mystery products than the rest of our items, so you have better odds at an upside. However, there is also the possibility of downside or receiving teams or players you’re not necessarily interested in. Each autograph mystery box will have its own description where it will tell you what can be found in the box, lists of players, guarantees or more.
Framed sports jerseys are some of our more expensive items that we consistently offer. Each one of our framed jerseys is hand pulled, matted and framed. We commit to only bring you the highest quality frames, so you can be as happy with your piece on day 1000 as you were on day 1. These are perfect for big gifts or creating your epic fan-cave. Look for many more framed jerseys styles and players to come.
Why Us?
As a leader in the autograph space, we know exactly where the problems lie.
Trust, reliability and accountability are 3 important qualities every collector wants when purchasing new memorabilia, and that can be hard to come by in todays online marketplace.
We're here to help.
When you shop RSA, you can always be sure you’re getting an authentic autograph at a great price. Each item you purchase comes with a certified authentic autograph and a 100% money-back guarantee, just in case you are unsatisfied in any way.
Our shipping is fast & secure, so you can rely on your orders getting to you in a timely manner and in the condition you ordered. If it does happen to get damaged in shipping (accidents do happen) we have a 100% money-back guarantee.
Sometimes, people mess up. If there are any errors or defects regarding you’re order, we want to be the ones who claim accountability for it so you can be satisfied every time you add to your collection.
Oh, and did we mention we have a 100% money-back guarantee?
*Our Trusted Authenticators*