Author: Kevin

Gonzo!

Today was a bittersweet day.  Great because it was Caden’s 11th birthday but sad because baseball lost two of its best: Stan “The Man” Musial and Earl Weaver.

Today’s mail was great too!  I received a Call Ball from the Arizona Diamondback’s radio broadcaster from the 2001 World Series, Greg Schulte.  He wrote his call from Game 7 when Luis Gonzalez got the game winning hit to win the World Series.  Mr Schulte commented on the letter I sent that that was the most writing he had ever done on a baseball and that he hopes he did ok.  Greg, you did awesome!

A Sticky Mess?

I recently sent in a couple items to a private signing that my pal Robert T (lutherlafy on SCN) had with some baseball players from the Tulsa, OK area.  Today I received them and they could not have turned out any better!

As a follow up to my Tim McClelland “George Brett Pine Tar Game” story ball, Robert got me a story ball with George Frazier to write about his memories.  Before George played for the Twins and won a World Championship with them (1987), he pitched for the Yankees.  Once the baseball commissioner decided to have the Pine Tar Game resumed, George was to go out and pitch the top of the 9th inning against the Royals.  Keep in mind this was almost a month after the start of the game.  George took up two panels writing about his memory of the conclusion of the game.

Also being received and pretty much as cool as the Frazier ball was two full tickets to Dylan Bundy’s ML Debut game.  Dylan is a highly rated rookie in the Orioles organization and signed each ticket with “ML Debut”.

A couple awesome items from Robert today!  Thanks pal!

“The Quick”

Mick “The Quick” Rivers recently had a signing in New York and my buddy Jon S asked if I wanted him on anything.  The first World Series I watched as a kid was the 1977 one and I remember Mickey Rivers playing in it.  I jumped on the chance to get Rivers on a baseball. Jon got it signed with “The Quick” and sent it to me today.  I look forward to helping out Jon’s collection with some cards I hope to get signed at Twinsfest in a couple weeks.

Where’s the John?

Today brought in a couple items from a recent private signing with Tommy John.  Tommy is one of those guys who is always mentioned as a borderline hall of famer and is most known as the first person to have “Tommy John Surgery” (duh!).

The signing was conducted by Patrick M (crash on SCN) and he did a great job.  I got a baseball signed with a few stats on it as well as two 2000 Greats of the Game cards.  It is a fairly well known fact among SCN members that items sent to Tommy’s address are being ghost signed by his ex-wife.  I had a 2000 Greats of the Game card already signed in my collection and was unsure if it was Mr’s or ex-Mrs’s autograph.  With these that came in it looks exactly like the one I had so now I have three.  I would rather be safe than sorry in any autograph I have in my collection.  I got the extra to send to a friend of mine who is collecting this set so he will be surprised when he gets it.