Author: Kevin

Not ABad Mail Day!

See what I did there?  Abad?  Today I received three packages of items that I had sent out.  Two were baseball related and one was a comic artist.

The first package I opened was an envelope that I had sent, along with a pair of artist sketch cards, to Ron Ferdinand.  Ron is an artist who drew the Dennis The Menance comic strip.  He sent two really really cool sketch cards that he drew Dennis on one and Mr Wilson on the other.  He sprayed them with something to prevent them from smearing too.  They look really cool and are neat items in my collection.

The next package I received was from Steve S (cosmo on SCN).  He went to the Boston Red Sox Soxfest event and got me a debut ticket signed from Andrew Benintendi, a first home run ticket signed by Blake Swihart with “1st HR” inscription.  He also got me a pair of Fernando Abad Topps Heritage cards signed.  The Soxfest is one of the hardest events to get autographs at (second to probably Cubsfest) but Steve batted a perfect 1.000 for me!  Thanks Steve!

My third package was from Joe M (probowler on SCN) who went to a Twins Caravan stop and got me Taylor Rogers tickets signed.  Joe offered to do them at a fair price and I wanted to hedge my position that I may not get him at Twinsfest so I sent him the tickets.  Joe came through big time.  He got a pair of each ML Debut and 1st Win tickets signed for me.  They look awesome.  He even made sure to get inscriptions as well as a couple tickets that had dark backgrounds signed in gold paint pen.  Thanks Joe!

He Played Both Games of the Longest Doubleheader By Time

My daily Twins calendar on January 13th talked about how on 05.31.1964 there was a doubleheader between the Giants and Mets that lasted the longest of any doubleheader (by time:  9 hours, 56 minutes).  I checked the boxscores to see who played a full game in each of the two games and found that Ed Kranepool of the Mets played both.  I sent Ed a baseball and received it back today.  He signed it with
Played Every Inning of Doubleheader 5-3-64″ and wrote about how he played 50 innings in 24 hours and wished the game went a little longer so it would have ended the next month!  Pretty neat comment about Ed’s 24 hour period!

The Rocket

Today I received a pair of items I had sent in to Chris D (cpdinc on SCN) for his private signing with Roger Clemens.  I sent in my 03.31.2003 Sports Illustrated that was already signed by Mike Mussina and Jose Contreras and Chris got Roger to sign it perfectly.  I also sent in my 300 win baseball that already had six signatures on it and Roger signed that perfectly with a “354 W” inscription.  It too looks great!  Chris did a great job on these items at a very fair price.  Thanks Chris!!!