This weekend was the Sports News Shows show at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Brooklyn Park. I was really only interested in getting Joe Morgan to sign a couple Sports Illustrated magazines and Tom Glavine on a ball with HOF 2014. The first person I was when I got there this morning was Mike G. I chatted with him for a bit and got to meet his son Liam. That was cool. I then got the 03.14.1983 Sports Illustrated magazine already signed by Tony Perez and Pete Rose signed by Joe Morgan to finish it up. He also signed the 06.06.1966 issue. He seemed very friendly. I then waited for Tom Glavine to start signing. While waiting, Joel B showed up and we had fun chatting for a while. Once my number was up for Tom I got a baseball signed with HOF. After that I got it authenticated and Joel and I left with plan on meeting up again next weekend for Kent Hrbek’s signing.
Category: HOF
A Killer of a Mail Day!!!!
About three months ago, someone on SCN posted that they had a complete run of autographed Harmon Killebrew Topps cards for sale for $1200. I needed nine of them, mostly the league leader cards, but was not going to spend that amount only needing nine. The person who ended up buying them took the few he needed and sold the rest but not after getting most slabbed by PSA. He contacted me on SCN and offered the ones I needed for $50 per card. I jumped on that deal and today I received the ten cards (one was an upgrade). They are gorgeous and all signed in beautiful blue Sharpie. The cards I got are (*=PSA slabbed):
1962 Home Run Leaders*
1963 Home Run Leaders*
1964 RBI Leaders (signed by Kaline too)
1965 RBI Leaders*
1965 Home Run Leaders*
1967 #460*
1968 RBI Leaders
1968 Super Stars*
1970 RBI Leaders
1970 #150* (upgrade)
This group of cards completed MY run of all Topps base Harmon Killebrew cards when he was a Twin (starting with the 1961 set). This group also put me over the 90% benchmark of all time Topps base Twins cards signed which also includes the o for 9 for 2014 series one set!
Thanks Brian K (bkritz on SCN) for contacting me with your available cards!!!!
That’s the ticket by George!
Today I received my 3000th hit ticket signed by George Brett in the mail. I am stoked! I had this ticket for a while and George does not do many shows but Tom Orr (orr23mj on SCN) got a private signing with him so I knew I had to send in the ticket. I got the inscription 3000th Hit on it too. It turned out great. Tom does a great job and takes care of your items as if they were his. Thanks Tom!
A HOFer and a 1st Overall Draft Pick
Today I received a couple items I am excited to add to the collection.
A few weeks ago I purchased a nice season ticket version ticket for Wade Boggs’ 3,000th hit game. I mailed it to him and got it back today signed beautifully.
A few days ago I purchased a baseball signed by Mark Appel. Mark was the first overall draft pick in the 2013 MLB draft. I bought it from Brad E (elchert13 on SCN). Brad packaged it really well and shipped it fast. A great ball for the collection!