Category: HOF

Another Nice Mail Day!

Today I received three packages from various people with autographed items in them.  One was a box full of baseballs gotten for me at the Arizona Fall League, one was a World Series ticket, and the other a couple photos I traded for.
The baseballs came from Christian B (hheroes10 on SCN) who has gotten me autographs from Arizona Spring Training and Fall League over the past number of years.  This group contained:
Jesse Winker
Hunter Dozier
Anthony DeSclafani
Eddie Rosario
DJ Peterson
They were all signed perfectly in blue on the sweetspot just how I like ’em!

A couple weeks I saw where Dan C (scfdff on SCN) was going to a signing with Jim Kaat in New York and was offering to take items.  I had a Game 2 of the 1965 World Series ticket I had been wanting to get signed by Jim for a while.  I sent it to Dan asking if he would ask Jim if he would write “Complete Game Winner” on the ticket too.  Dan emailed me right after the signing and said Jim’s agent was saying no inscriptions but he asked and Jim told him it was such a unique item he would inscribe it.  Today I got the ticket and COULD NOT be happier!  It turned out AWESOME!

The other package was a tube with a pair of photos.  Bryan W (bryanwood on SCN) contacted me about an NFL Duke football I posted on SCN a long time ago for trade.  He was going to see someone a couple days later and wanted it for the signing.  Since I bought the ball in hopes of having Brett Favre sign it when he was a Viking and it never happened, it was just gathering dust so I looked over his trade items and picked out a couple cool signed pictures.  The first picture is an 8×10 of the fight between George Brett and Graig Nettles in the 1977 ALCS signed by both of those guys.  I showed it to Caden and we watched the video of it and he wanted that photo so I got that one.  The other one I received is a really cool 11×14 of Phil Niekro on the mound in mid-windup about to throw a knuckleball while playing for the Yankees.  What makes this photo so cool is there are five inscriptions on the photo all signed in perfect silver paint pen.  Cami saw that picture and said she wanted that one.

All in all it was a really nice mail day!

Sports Illustrated Day!

Today I received a pair of boxes with multiple Sports Illustrated magazines in them.  The first was from Jamie B (jamieblye on SCN) which had SI’s he got signed at a private signing for me from the following:
Bob Gibson – 10.07.1968
Bob Gibson – 07.19.1993
Roberto Alomar – 10.26.1992
They were all signed with the pen and the location I wanted and look great!

The other box had three Reggie Jackson SI’s that Isaias F (franco858 on SCN) got signed at his private signing.  Those issues are 06.17.1974, 05.02.1977 and 03.15.1982.  Again, all these were signed perfectly and in the perfect location and pen and look great too!

Thanks guys for providing a service of getting items signed for me!

A Couple Nice Items

Today’s mail brought a surprise and a package of some prospects.  Back in the beginning of the season, I mailed a baseball card to Paul Molitor at Target Field.  Today I received my 2013 Gypsy Queen card signed beautifully in blue!

The other package was probably the last one I will get from my friend Paul C in Florida until next spring.  He worked the instructional league games for me and picked up baseballs signed by the following guys:
Austin Meadows w/”1st RD Pick ’13”
Josh Bell w/”Futures Game 2014″
Alen Hansen
Kyle Schwarber
As always the last few years, Paul has done a great job and I cannot wait until next spring!

A Trifecta of Hall of Famers

Today I met up with my buddy Joel B (brad0112 on SCN) at Caden’s baseball tournament in Richfield.  Joel brought some things I had bought a while ago and he picked up for me as well as three magazines from a private signing he had during all star week.

Today I added a beautiful Lefty Gomez baseball and a beautiful Carl Hubbell baseball.  Both are psa/dna certified.  These came from the same batch I bought from a few months ago when I got Yogi Berra, AB Chandler, Curt Gowdy, Willie Stargell, Brooks Robinson and Hal Newhouser.  I have been wanting a Hubbell for a while and they are real hard to find in this condition.  I am pretty excited for both of these.

Joel brought three Sports Illustrated magazines he had signed for me when he met up with Rickey Henderson after the Celebrity Softball game last week.  These are also beautiful magazines signed perfectly.

Thanks a ton Joel!