Author: Kevin

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!

Double Your Pleasure!

Today I received a couple items I sent out a little bit ago. First was a card signed by Carlos Gomez. Carlos did a private signing at Waukesha Sportscards on July 14th and Mark G (hofcs on SCN) worked out a bulk discount deal and I was able to get the remaining card I needed for my collection signed by Carlos. It was a 2009 Topps Heritage card.

I also received a baseball I sent to Ken Aspromonte back on 7/2/2012. Ken was the manager for one of the teams involved in the 10 Cent Beer Night promotion. After I got a cool Story Ball response from Joe Tait on the event, I thought it would be neat to get a manager’s viewpoint. Today I got it back! He even returned my donation and my pen.

The Zack Attack!

I recently did a consignment with Neal T (TuckerKCRoyals on SCN) to get a couple baseballs signed by top prospects at the All Star Futures game.  Neal came through with Zack Wheeler for me.  Zack is the #22 overall MLB prospect and is in the Mets organization.  Not only did Neal get it signed the way I wanted but he also got it signed using the ink pen I sent and provided an awesome summary on where and when he got it.