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Evan & Tiki

Maddux Autograph Prank: “Jeffrey Dahmer” Balls and a Fan Confirms It

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A hilarious Jeff Francoeur story turns into an all-time sports prank: Greg Maddux allegedly signed autograph balls as “Jeffrey Dahmer” to mess with suspected resellers, while making sure kids still got the real signature. The crew debates how anyone could miss it, then a caller from the Upper East Side drops a perfect firsthand twist from a 2014 autograph event where Maddux allegedly joked about not writing a serial killer name on his jersey. From there the segment spins into a convo about all-time greats struggling as owners and coaches.

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0:00.0

Greg Maddox was hanging out with Jeff Francore.

0:03.2

Jeff Rancourt played for the Braves.

0:04.9

Okay.

0:05.2

Also ended up playing for the Mets.

0:06.4

And Jeff Rancourt recently told this story about Greg Maddox and how he would sign autographs.

0:12.9

And this prank that he would pull on fans, especially ones that he thought were getting the autographs to then sell them.

0:20.4

Like, I'm sure that's a worry you've had as an athlete. Yeah. That it's not just some kid getting your autograph. It's a dude who's going to turn around and sell it. So here is Jeff Rancourt telling the Greg Maddox autograph story. And he was like, hey, Rook, let's go sign some balls. So I'm like, okay, so, you know, I follow him over there and we start signing,

0:38.9

but all I see is I'm like number 31 and I'm like, that doesn't say Maddox. He signed like 20

0:45.7

balls Jeffrey Dahmer and was signing it for all these. Now the kids, I give Maddox credits,

0:50.8

all the kids he would put Greg Maddox, but the old guys that he thought were going to sell the balls, he was writing Jeffrey Dahmer

0:57.9

number 31.

0:59.8

You ever try that, too?

1:01.1

No.

1:03.1

That's also that.

1:04.0

That is pretty good.

1:05.9

I'm assuming that his autograph was somewhat illegible.

1:10.0

Because how could you look at that and be like,

1:11.8

oh yeah, that says Greg Maddox?

1:13.4

Yeah, I mean, I know a lot of autographs are illegible.

1:16.4

Yeah.

1:16.8

I was just displaying a few on the new RICO setup I have,

1:19.5

and I couldn't recognize a lot of the autographs,

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