Today I received a pretty cool item. Famous Ink had a signing with David Ortiz recently and I mailed in my 11.08.2004 issue of Sports Illustrated that was already signed by Johnny Damon, Pedro Martinez, and Curt Schilling. This completed the group of four players on the cover. The magazine is perfect in every way! I am excited with the job everyone did on it.
Category: HOF
Lefty
Today I received another one of Lanny Frattare’s scorecards signed to add to the collection. Steve Carlton signed the scorecard from 08.06.1978 and included “37th Complete Game Shutout”. Pretty cool scorecard! I have two more out waiting for Hall of Famers to sign!
Winnie The Twinnie
Today I received a card signed by Dave Winfield. Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) had a signing with Dave and I sent in his Topps Now Turn Back The Clock card from when he got his 3,054th hit and passed Rod Carew on the all time hit list. It was a meh autograph as it looks like Dave “mailed it in” signing the autographs. The photo on the card shows the home white pinstripes as it was taken at the Metrodome. If you notice the photos taken for the cards during the years the Twins were in the Dome, you will find that most of them were on the road or if you happen to get a home uniform it was probably taken in Spring Training. That is because the lighting was not the best for photos inside the Dome. This is one of the few Metrodome game action cards out there.
A Wild Moose!
Today I received a pair of items for the collection.
The first was a box that had three baseballs I had sent to Lucky’s Sportscards for a private signing they were having with James “Wild Thing” Karinchak. James is a hard throwing reliever in the Indians organization who will be a top rated closer real soon. Vinny (owner of Lucky’s) also email me a photo of James holding the actual three baseballs he had just signed for me. I was really impressed with the service I received from Lucky’s. I got JSA on each ball too.
The other package was a Lanny Frattare scorecard I had sent to Mike Mussina. It was from the game on 06.14.2005 when Moose threw a complete game shutout against the Pirates at Yankee Stadium. I had sent a real nice note and even extra money to have it inscribed with “22nd CG SO” but all I got was “HOF 19”. Oh well. At least I got it back and got it back signed.