Paul Molitor was a favorite player of mine years ago. Not at the Puckett or Mauer level but I admired his game and loved listening to him talk baseball. I tracked down a nice pair of Baseball Digest magazines that he was on and had a Hall of Fame induction ticket already signed by Dennis Eckersley that was sitting around waiting to be signed so I sent them off along with a real nice donation. I received all three items back signed perfectly today and am very excited to have these in my collection!
Category: HOF
Ahhh Frick
Doug Keating does an amazing job promoting his shows in MA and taking mail order for his very fairly priced autograph guests. My latest purchase is no different. Joe Castiglione is the recipient of the 2024 Ford Frick Award and showed up to Doug’s show on New Years Day. I bought a pre-signed baseball and received it today. It was signed by Joe along with “Frick Award HOF ’24” and fits perfectly in my collection!
A Good Sport
Brian Kritz recently posted a small lot of Sport Magazines (and one Sports Illustrated) on a Facebook sale page. I purchased items from Brian years ago via SportsCollectors.net so I knew his stuff was good and he was fair. Today I received the following magazines:
07.1953 Sport Ferris Fain
02.1955 Sport Al Dark
10.1958 Sport Bob Turley
05.1959 Sport Hank Bauer
07.1981 Sport Goose Gossage
07.06.1964 Sports Illustrated Al Dark
All magazines are great and signed beautifully!
What The Eck? (Part II)
As previously mentioned, I had sent in a pair of tickets to the recent Chicago Sports Spectacular show through two different guys to have Dennis Eckersley sign them. Today I received the second one and, like the other, Eck signed it with “Back Door Slider”. Chris R (rifon on SCN) took care of this one for me. I absolutely love these tickets. It was a moment I remember well. It was my second month of my first year of college and most people on my dorm floor went out to party. It turned out that the cops showed up to a bunch of houses and broke up the parties and the kids all spilled into the streets. Who would have thought that a bunch of drunk kids would act reasonably when that happened? Turns out the kids started rioting… setting dumpsters on fire, flipping cars, and ripping out street signs. All this happened while I was in the dorm room watching Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and seeing Kirk Gibson do the improbable. Great memories of a heck of a moment in baseball history!