No, Willie was not really free. He was reasonably priced though! Today I received my 06.18.2007 Sports Illustrated that was already signed by three now includes Willie Randolph! Chris R (rifon on SCN) took care of my magazine at a recent show. I have another EXCITING package coming from Chris in a couple days.
I also received a little Fernandomania today! Luis B, owner of One Way 77 JC, had Fernando Valenzuela in for a signing and I sent in my 2000 Fleer Greats of the Game card. I had this card “signed” but learned that Fernando uses a ghost signer and all the autographs in my collection of him are ghost signed so I really wanted to replace them but could only justify the card at this time due to the cost. I still have to replace a baseball and a pair of Sports Illustrated magazines. This redo on the card now REALLY completes my 2000 GOTG set! Luis also had Kenley Jansen in for a signing so I sent a debut ticket and got it signed with “MLB Debut”. A couple fun additions to the collection today!
Author: Kevin
The Key!
Today I received a pair of items for the collection. If you are one of the very few who follow my blog, you might remember the Sports Illustrated from 11.02.1992 that I purchased recently that was signed by five Blue Jays players. Well, now it is signed by six! Jimmy Key was kind enough to sign it and return it!
My other item was a card that Courtland S (cort10 on SCN) got signed for me at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions golf tournament. I had sent some Josh Donaldson cards to three people who were going and one person had a change of plans. Courtland got me the 2021 Gypsy Queen #40 signed. I have another package on its way with a few more from the third person so stay tuned!
Johnny Likes Tuttles
Today was a fun day getting a couple autographed items along with some cool tickets for the collection.
The autographed items are a 1963 Topps Bill Tuttle card that David P (dcpolak on SCN) was selling. The other item is my Sports Illustrated magazine from 04.20.2016 already signed by Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey that now is complete after Johnny Cueto signed it in the Dominican Republic for a PastPros/Under The Radar Sports signing. Here is Johnny completing my SI!
The Greatest
My interest in Roberto Clemente has piqued of late and I reviewed the boxscore from the game he got his 3000th hit and discovered the pitcher who threw the ball is a reliable signer. So, I sent a ball to Jon Matlack asking him to write about Roberto’s 3000th hit. He wrote on the ball that he did not even know he needed one more hit to reach 3000 and the pitch he threw was not even a strike! Cool reply from someone who was such a big part of that moment. I am mailing out another ball to a fellow Pirate player soon and will hopefully get a nice reply there too.