I received a couple packages today. One from Frank “Sweet Music” Viola and one from Lezcano Dean (deano on SCN). I had send Viola a pair of Project 70 cards of his and asked him to draw in his face on one of the cards. Alas, he did not but he did sign both beautifully.
Deano was blowing out some items at great prices on SCN so I picked up a few magazines. Those I got are:
03.12.1973 Sports Illustrated Bill Melton (I had one but it was personalized to me)
11.2.2009 Sports Illustrated Ryan Howard (I had a couple of these but I think Howard is underrated so I added another)
April 1979 Baseball Quarterly Jim Rice
August 1979 Baseball Quarterly Larry Bowa (pictured with Pete Rose who I will get on it soon)
April 2012 ESPN HS Lucas Giolito and Max Fried. I had no idea ESPN made a magazine devoted to High School sports. And, to have these two stars on the cover is pretty neat. They both signed in icky green Sharpie but it looks ok and for the price I could not pass it up.
Author: Kevin
A Fan of FanHQ
Shaun and his crew at FanHQ do an amazing job for customers. Today I received my package of items I sent in for the Luis Arraez and Nelson Cruz signing events. They took my original package and used that for additional packaging to ensure my items arrive as perfect as possible. Plus, the items were signed perfectly! The Cruz item I got signed was the Sports Illustrated magazine from 10.24.2011. For Arraez, I got a ticket from 07.22.2019 signed with “Triple Play” and a bunch of cards. The cards are:
2020 Topps 612
2020 Allen & Ginter 240
2020 Gypsy Queen 203
2020 Topps Heritage 293
2021 Topps Heritage 322
Topps Now 2020 Opening Day OD-143
Topps Now 2021 Opening Day OD-132
Topps Now 2020 Postseason PS-45
Topps Now 07.22.2019 (Triple play card related to ticket)
I was pretty pumped when I saw these items!
Not A Lump Of Cole
Today I received a pretty exciting card to complete my run of Twins Alex Cole cards. DEB Sports had a signing with Cole and I sent in my 1994 Topps Traded #12T card. It arrived today signed beautifully!
Oh Balls!
Wow! What a box of baseballs I received from my pal Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN)! Chris is a guy who loves chasing autographs more than collecting them so he and I are a great fit. I put full trust in Chris to figure which prospects and players are “worth” an official baseball (these are not cheap!). Today’s box included the following baseballs signed on the sweetspots in blue ink… just how I like them:
Anthony Volpe (Yankees top prospect)
Yandy Diaz
Josh Smith (another Yankees top prospect)
Sandy Alcantara
Brett Baty
Justin Turner
Trevor Rogers
This was a fun box to open and add these items to the collection!