Welcome in. I'm Rick Gaiman, and this is a very exciting new episode of 300 yards to unknown.

In this episode, I interview Gary DiMato, who is probably the guy with the largest signed golf ball collection in the world.

Over 750 golf balls and counting, I might add, in his collection.

And I'm not sure there's evidence that anybody else has more.

So it's a really interesting, kind of exciting.

It got me amped up to talk to Gary about this and kind of see who's in his collection,

who's not in his collection, how he goes about even acquiring these golf balls. And I know a lot

of you are probably sitting at home thinking, oh, I've got a couple of signed golf balls.

We'll try 750 plus of them in your collection. It was a lot of fun.

I really appreciate Gary for his time. And let's get to it. All right. Let me welcome in Gary

Domato and Gary. This is exciting. This caught my attention. This is something people might

find a little weird or a little quirky, but I love what you have going on

here. You have one of the largest, if not the largest signed golf ball collection in the world.

Is that what I'm to understand? Well, I haven't checked with the Guinness Book of World Records lately,

but the guy who had the record a few years back,

um, I've got more than him. So I'm going to have to check with Guinness and see if mine,

my collection is a world record. Okay. And I want to make sure we have the real time count here,

Gary. What are we officially up to right now in this moment? I think it was 768 when I posted the column last week. It is now

769. You've acquired one. You've acquired one more since this article that I read that I said,

I got to talk to Gary about. You know what? People out there have, you know, latched onto the

column somehow. And I've gotten several offers from people saying,

oh, I see in your list, you don't have this ball. I'm happy to send it to you. Or I can make a

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