I found a guy long ago who had some unsigned, hand painted, VERY limited numbered Wild Horse Cachets envelopes available. I grabbed any that had the Twins on them. I saw where Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) was having a private signing with Rod Carew so I sent in the cachet of Rod. I requested blue ink instead of a typical Sharpie so it would stand out against the bright paint. I received it today and it turned out great!
Category: HOF
That’s The Ticket(s)!
I received my first package of tickets from Ben W last week or so. Today the last package came… All the way from London! In it were the following tickets:
Lyman Bostock Cycle 07.24.1976 (unsigned)
Rob Manfred ticket from 04.05.2015 @ Cubs with “1st Game as Commissioner”
Lou Piniella ticket from his managerial debut 04.08.1986 @ Yankees (unsigned)
A pair of Pat Gillick tickets from 04.07.1978 Blue Jays @ Tigers with “1st Game as GM” and “HOF 2011”
Emmitt Ashford, the first black umpire, ticket from his first game on 1966 Opening Day at the Washington Senators. I hope to donate this ticket to the Negro League Museum soon.
Ben has a tremendous collection that he is selling pieces of. I am fortunate enough to have been able to acquire a VERY small part of it!
Gettin’ Miggy Wit’ It
There was recently an autograph event that had a number of former Detroit Tigers in attendance. Chris R (rifon on SCN) was taking items to get signed so I sent him a couple items for Jack Morris and one for Miguel Cabrera. For Jack, I sent a Hall of Fame postcard and the April, 1985 Baseball Digest. For Miggy, I sent in a 3,000th hit ticket. Miggy likes to sign these tickets with 3000 hits instead of 3000th Hit so I was a little nervous about sending it in but Chris did a fantastic job with my items! Miggy signed the ticket exactly as I wanted! All items look great and I could not have been happier!
Twins and a HOFer!
I love mail on Mondays! There is usually extra mail that arrives due to the mail moving on the weekend. Today I received a pair of packages. The first was from Pat Gillick who signed my 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame yearbook. The second was from Mike E who lives in Iowa and was able to get me a bunch of Twins stuff signed when the St Paul Saints played the Iowa Cubs. Mike got me:
Zebby Matthews game used baseball from his debut game with the date
Zebby Matthews 2025 Topps Heritage #309
David Festa 2025 Topps #178
David Festa 2025 Topps Heritage #249
David Festa 2025 Topps Now Opening Day #OD-89
Edouard Julien 2025 Topps Now Opening Day #OD-82
Kenta Maeda 2023 Topps #US97
Jose Miranda 2025 Topps Heritage #4
Jose Miranda Topps Living Legends #564
Jose Miranda Topps Now 7.4.2024 #376
Jose Miranda Topps Now 7.6.2024 #389
Jose Miranda Topps Now 4.7.2023 #68 (already signed by Kyle Farmer)
A great day of mail!