Today was a fun day of mail from a Hall of Famer. I recently acquired a set of tickets from Steve Carlton’s final MLB win. It just so happened that he was with the Twins and it was at the Metrodome. I decided to send one of those tickets as well as a HOF Postcard (I cannot believe I did not have one already in the collection!) and received them back today. Lefty signed the ticket with “Final MLB Win #329” on the ticket and the postcard in the typical area at the top of the postcard. I am very pleased with how both turned out!
Author: Kevin
A Future President?
I have always been intrigued by presidential autographs but never had the courage to jump into them outside of signed books. They seem to be the easiest and cheapest way to get presidential autographs. But, for every George Bush or Jimmy Carter autographed book I have I have a Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachman. I would love to have an autographed baseball but they always run with black Sharpies and they do not hold up very well on baseballs (although I have a couple that have stood the test of time quite well). Today’s mail brought in Ron DeSantis’ “The Courage to Be Free” signed copy. Premiere Collectibles does a great job with books and the one I bought came in a special presentation box and is numbered 2015/2800. Who knows if he will be president down the road but if he is, I have his signed book!
Twins Spring
I received my first package of signed cards from Spring Training today. Charie D (CDietz on SCN) posted some extras he got signed in Ft Myers at Twins Spring Training. I found a pair I needed and a pair of cool ones and purchased. They are:
2022 Topps Heritage Max Kepler #122
2023 Topps Jhoan Duran #218
2023 Bowman Draft Paper Connor Prielipp #BD-8
2023 Bowman Chrome Blackjack Conner Prielipp/Brooks Lee #BJ-6
That Blackjack card shows two super prospects for the Twins.
A Killer Pickup
If you follow this blog you know I just started getting into signed Baseball Digest magazines. Since I just started, I don’t have any of the deceased players so when I came across one on eBay for sale from cardboardlegendsonline I was pretty excited. This issue was signed by Harmon Killebrew and was the issue from January, 1970. It even had JSA authentication and is in perfect newsstand shape!