Today I received my 1968 Sports Illustrated magazine signed by Dal Maxvill. He is the last living person on the cover so I can now retire it. Lezcano D (deano on SCN) got it signed for me at a recent signing event in St Louis. Lezcano is a real friend of collectors as he is willing to take care of other collectors by getting autographs for the local shows for people. My SI now has Tim McCarver, Bob Gibson, Mike Shannon, Lou Brock, Orlando Cepeda, Julian Javier, Dal Maxvill, and Red Schoendienst. It looks great! Thanks Lezcano for your help!
Author: Kevin
Kitty Kaat
Today I received a 1963 Topps AL Strikeout Leaders card with Jim Kaat’s signature added to it. It already had Camilo Pascual’s autograph on it and waited for Kitty to show up at a show or private signing to get him to sign it. Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) had a private signing with him and I sent it in for that. It turned out great.
Iwakuma Doooma
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!
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!