Author: Kevin

Justice Is Served!

Today’s mail brought a signed David Justice Sports Illustrated magazine.  Scott Smith, the SI King, went to Lake Tahoe for Michael Jordan’s golf tournament.  He offered to get a number of people’s autographs on a consignment basis.  I sent in my Justice regional issue and got it back today signed perfectly.

What is neat about this issue is that it is one of four regional issues released that week for SI.  It was one per each of the four teams playing in the LCS for each league.  I already had Shane Spencer (Yankees), John Smoltz (Braves) and Greg Vaughn (Padres) and only needed the Braves Justice.  I now have all four newsstand issues signed!

Thanks Champ!

Today I received a story ball from Champ Summers.  I asked him to write about what he remembered about the Disco Demolition Night back in 1979.  I chose to write to him because Pat Underwood mentioned in his story ball that he remembered “Champ Summers calling time-out to get a helmet to play rt. field”.  I thought it would be neat to get Champ’s thoughts.  He replied that he got the helmet because people were throwing pieces of records that were sticking into the ground.  Pretty neat memory.

That is just the ticket!

Today I received a ticket that I sent in to Chriss P (bigpog on SCN) for a private signing for Carlos Santana.  It was cool that it was the only way I figured I could get an inscription on the ticket.  Chriss did a great job and I got it today with MLB Debut on it.

I also received the SI that I had sent to Bobby Doerr earlier and most recently Bill Monbouquette.  Bill signed it perfectly and included a real nice note and a photo personalized to me.  He said the donation I sent to him will go to the Jimmy Fund.  It was another neat day of additions to the collection!

A Great Mail Day!

Today was a great mail day.  I received items from three places.

The first was from MLAM.  They recently sent out a couple emails regarding highly rated prospects that they got to sign baseballs at the All Star Game and two guys listed I wanted.  Both are known for being difficult signers and I knew the only way I could get them the way I wanted them, at this time, was to get them via MLAM.  Today a pair of blue ink, sweetspot autographed baseballs signed by Francisco Lindor and Manny Machado showed up.  The service from MLAM was great!

Also arriving was my tickets and cards from last weekend’s Chili Davis appearance at Fan HQ.  I was unable to go because Caden had a baseball tournament so I sent in the last two cards I needed signed by Chili.  I am now down to needing just ONE more card signed  for the 1991 10 Year Anniversary Card set.  That is Mark Guthrie.  Hopefully some day.  So, I got the 1991 10 Year Anniversary card signed as well as the 1991 Topps Traded cards signed by Chili Davis.  Fan HQ also did a private signing with Trevor Plouffe so I sent in a ticket from his ML Debut and his first HR game.  I wanted the inscriptions and knew this was the best way to get them.  They all turned out awesome.

Finally was something I was waiting on for a while.  I traded some cards with Clint R (cardfan4ever on SCN) and sent him an Eric Hosmer ML Debut ticket to get signed.  He got it signed and I received it today.  Another ticket to the collection!