Today’s mail brought a box of four magazines from the Nolan Ryan Foundation. If you want a Nolan Ryan autograph, they do an AMAZING job taking care of your stuff and getting it back to you, etc. They are a first rate operation when it comes to autographs. Nolan visits the place to sign autographs a couple times a year so your wait could be as long as six months but it is worth the wait.
Since I already have all his Sports Illustrated magazines signed, I decided to get some other “odd ball” type magazines. Today I received:
1974 Baseball Illustrated
06.16.1975 Newsweek
1977 Baseball Illustrated
04.30.1980 Inside Sports
All were signed in the perfect location in perfect blue Sharpie and included a NRF hologram.
Category: HOF
Odds & Ends
Today I received a package of a few items I bought from Jonathan M (dabulls on SCN) of things I did not have but thought they were cool. The first was a Jim Bunning HOF postcard. What I liked about this one was that it had HOF 96 on it and it was signed boldly in blue Sharpie across the top. Another item I bought was a Bob Feller 8×10 photo. Yes, I have about a zillion Bob Feller photos but this one is a pose I did not have. It is a picture of him flipping a baseball in the air. He signed it and then inside the baseball he wrote “HOF ’62”. I always liked that pose and am surprised I never got one signed before. Heck, I don’t even collect photos but I bought it on a whim. The last thing in the envelope was a signed umpire card of Rick Reed from the 2004 Bowman Heritage set. Rick is from the same fraternity I was/am a member of and I know my friend Shane would love this card so when I saw it, I had to get it for him. He doesn’t read this so it won’t ruin anything but I plan on sending the card to him. He will get a kick out of it.
Postcards From The Edge
Today I received four Hall of Fame postcards that I bought from Dylan A (bballabro on SCN). They are all signed real nice in the top yellow margin in blue Sharpie as one would want. They are:
Goose Gossage
George Kell
Phil Niekro
Monte Irvin
Thanks Dylan!
Hurt Me!
Today I received a baseball signed by Frank Thomas. Leaf Authentics was running a special on them and could not pass it up. I got one from them a couple weeks ago that had the “Big Hurt” inscription. This one today has “HOF 2014”. Not bad at all!