Today I received a baseball signed by Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners. My friend Greg N (justgreg on SCN) gets to a lot of Tacoma Rainiers baseball games and Iwakuma was rehabbing and got him to sign a baseball for me. Iwakuma had a couple pretty good years the last couple but was beset by injuries this season. He is back with the Mariners and is looking to keep up his success. I hope he does well as I have him on my fantasy team! Thanks, as always, Greg!
Author: Kevin
A Weekend at Bernie’s
Today I received my October 19, 1970 Sports Illustrated magazine that I had sent to Doug Keating’s signing event with Bernie Carbo. I now have five autographs on this issue and need just one more. He is probably the easiest of all of them too! Boog Powell.
Doug had it signed perfectly right where I wanted it. It looks great! Thanks Doug!
The Great Nils Lofgren!
Back on 3/10/2012, I sent a few Nils Lofgren and Bruce Springsteen albums to Rob H (skinsxvii on SCN). Rob is married to Nils’ niece and told me he would be able to get him at some point when he came home for Christmas or on tour out East or wherever. Today, I received all but a pair of items I mailed to him to get signed. Rob is awesome. He kept me posted throughout all the time with what was going on. Turns out he was able to get him a couple weeks ago when Nils had a concert in Maryland and Rob had backstage passes. He got everything signed for me except for a pair of items that he had at the bottom of his packaging. He said he will get those signed next time he sees him. This was my first autograph of a musician and one of my favorite E Street Band members. Rob got signed the following for me:
Wrecking Ball album cover
Night Fades Away album
Tunnel of Love album cover
Tunnel of Love album with “2 Kevin”
A Rhythm Romance album cover (my favorite item signed!)
A Rhythm Romance album
Tunnel of Love album cover (this was for my buddy Mike who introduced me to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band).
Since I mailed those items to Rob, Cami got to see Nils and the rest of the band when they were at the Xcel Arena as part of the Wrecking Ball tour. Cami wants me to send her program to Rob to get signed for her collection. We will see…
Thanks so much Rob. Your efforts and patience is VERY appreciated! I LOVE the items you were able to get Nils to sign for me!!!
A Real Nice Surprise!
Today I received an envelope from my friend Jon S in Rochester, NY. He has season tickets for the Red Wings and gets me autographs on cards I need for my Twins project. He also collects Brian Dozier home run tickets so I help him out with those.
My package today had the follow cool cards:
2015 Topps Heritage Trevor May/AJ Achter
2015 Topps Heritage Danny Santana
2015 Diamond King Danny Santana
Thanks as always for all the help on my projects Jon!!!