Scott Smith is known as the 'SI King' because of his collection of autographed Sport Illustrated covers.currently the King's collection stands at about 19,000 signed covers. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Ever since he was 17-years-old, Scott Smith has been on a mission. And it hasn't come cheap 'I’ve been doing this 33 years now so even if you take, you know, an average of $10,000-$15,000 a year, you’re between somewhere $300,000-$400,000,' Smith says. His quest has taken him on yearly trips to the Bahamas.

'Most people wouldn’t think about having their passport in order or up to date, so I’d have a field day down there. I’d clean up.'

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.and even landed him in the hotel room of Muhammad Ali. 'His nickname is 'The Greatest.' Well, I tell you, this guy is the greatest human being I’ve ever met.' Scott Smith collects autographs.

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But not just any autograph. His goal is to get every Sports Illustrated ever printed signed by whoever's featured on the cover. The magazine has been in publication since 1954. And at current count, Smith has about 19,000 magazines signed. You ask for an autograph and they look at you funny.

The first crack out of their mouth is, 'How much are you getting for this?' Scott Smith 'Everyone in the hobby has always called me the. 'I think my grandmother gave me a subscription in 1973 and, like any pack rat, I would just save them, so after I got done reading them, I'd stash them in my closet and just build a huge wall of magazines, never throwing them away. 'Around 1982, I caught wind of where the Edmonton Oilers hockey team was staying here in New Jersey. Gretzky came out and he signed them for me and that’s where it started.

Started going after every football, baseball, basketball and hockey team. Most of the time pretty successful. 'You know, I've always worked and worked hard. My job was in finance for the past 20 years, and I enjoyed that, but my job is also as Mr.

Mom to two little girls right now. Never much of a big spender, so I was able to save enough money to take trips to spring training. Here and there. Now it's become a billion-dollar industry with famous athletes getting paid tremendous amounts of money to sign, so it's taken a big turn over the past few 30 years. 'They get paid a hell of a lot of money, and you ask them for an autograph, and they kind of look at you funny.

The first crack out of their mouth is, 'How much are you getting for this?' ' Smith does sell some of his duplicates.

He uses the money to fund his hobby and to pay for autographs from certain superstar athletes — he mentions Patriots quarterback Tom Brady — who charge $400-$500 per signature. But there are some covers for which autographs can't be purchased, no matter how much money you're willing to spend. 'There are a few covers from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s of just random photographs,' Smith explains. Random photographs of random people. They could be sports fans like you.

'I would assume that they along with their family are the only ones who know that they're on the cover and maybe the only ones that care that they're on the cover. It's not as if they appeared on the cover because they were famous for doing something.

It's just a random shot and lucky that they made it.' But not lucky for Scott Smith. Because although the Internet is very good at telling him where he can find celebrities -- at a hotel or charity function or even sometimes at their homes — the Internet is not good at helping him find people like Dolores Greer, who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on. 'Just a woman wearing stretchy pants,' Smith says. 'I don't know what stretchy pants are, but back then I guess they were pretty all the rage.' Back in the '50s and '60s, Smith says, SI was less exclusively sporty.

It catered to the yachting set — the kind of people who would wear expensive watches or stretchy pants. Smith spent an hour with the author of the article, to see if she remembered who the model was. 'The photographer herself was in her 90s,' he says, 'and suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's and is bedridden in California, but I spoke to her daughter at length a few times.' The daughter was helpful, but didn't know who the model was either.