Today I received my 1971 Topps Twins Rookie Stars card signed by Jim Nettles. Anthony Solano had a private signing with him so I sent in the card I had. What makes this exciting is that this card was already signed by Pete Hamm. Even though Pete is still alive, he just doesn’t sign autographs so having any card signed by him is pretty rare. The card I had was signed by Pete in red Sharpie so I included a red Sharpie in my package to Anthony and Jim signed it perfectly with it. While I would prefer blue over red, I am just happy that they are both the same color on a hard to find completed card! I already had a single signed Nettles card in blue but that will never get completed.
Author: Kevin
Buck Yeah!
Today I received my game used baseball from Byron Buxton’s debut signed and inscribed! 24/7 Collectibles (Armando Krewer) recently had a signing with Buck and I sent it in. It came back exactly as I hoped it would with “MLB Debut 6/14/15” on it!
Back To Signing!
I received a package of autographed baseballs from my guy Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN) today. He and I are both excited that some players and teams are back to signing autographs at the ballpark. The balls I got are:
Pete Alonso
James McCann
Oswald Peraza
Gunner Henderson
Chris is already working on another batch for me!
Stay Fair!!
With the latest downtime regarding autographs, I found that I was missing Carlton Fisk on my cover of the October 1979 issue of Baseball Magazine. I had Pete Rose, Don Larsen, and Bill Mazeroski on it but somehow missed adding Fisk when I was working on it. I sent it to him with his donation and requested him to inscribe it with “Stay Fair!!” which he did. The cover shows him waving his World Series home run to stay fair. Even though this issue includes Willie Mays on the cover, I will not be able to add him to it so I consider the cover completed!