Category: HOF

Great Friends, Great Autographs

Today’s mail brought a couple great packages.  One was the one I mentioned yesterday and the other was from my buddy Ryan A who attended the Chicago Sun Times show last weekend.

As expected, Chris Potter came through with the two Lee Lacy autographed Sports Illustrated magazines from his recent road trip of private signings.

Try as hard as they might, the USPS did not destroy the items inside the box like they did the outside.  Ryan took good care in packaging up everything and they all arrived in great shape.  First, Jose Contreras signed a Sports Illustrated magazine that was already signed by Mike Mussina.  Then, Ryan got Eric Davis to sign his Sports Illustrated issue from 1987.  Also included was Orlando Cepeda signing the issue with himself and all the other St Louis Cardinals.  Lastly, Ryan got a baseball signed by Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs.  Rizzo is going to be a beast in the coming years.  Thanks for taking care of me Ryan!  You the MAN!

Man, I love Mondays!

You might notice a theme from all these posts of mine.  I get most of the great mail on Mondays.  I am sure it is because there are really two days worth of “mail movement” that ends with delivery on Monday.

Today brought two packages from two different people who helped me out with autographs.  The first was a package of four baseballs signed by players in the Florida Instructional Leagues.  My guy Paul C got me the following:
Shane Watson
Jose Berrios
Alex Heredia
Stetson Allie
All are beautiful blue signatures on the sweetspot!

The other package was three Sports Illustrated magazines from a recent show in St Louis.  Lezcano D (deano on SCN) lives near St Louis and offers to help people obtain autographs at the shows in the area.  Lezcano got me the following:
Tim McCarver on 09.04.1967
Alex Johnson on 07.05.1971
and the following all on the 10.07.1968 Sports Illustrated I already had signed by Red Schoendienst:
Tim McCarver
Julian Javier
Mike Shannon
All autographs turned out awesome.

I am very pleased with both packages I received today!  Thanks guys!

GREAT mail day!

Today we returned from a quick family vacation to Rapid City, SD and the baseball mail was awesome!

First, I mailed a request to Wade Boggs to sign a baseball and HOF postcard.  Since I recently mailed to him for two Sports Illustrated magazines, I asked my father-in-law if he minded if I sent one in his name.  It showed up to his house while we were gone.  I sent $25 cash this time for the donation to the hospital.  I received a real nice baseball with HOF 05 and HOF postcard also with HOF 05.

Then I opened the mail and found that Carlton Fisk had signed both of my Sports Illustrated magazines I had sent to him before leaving.  That included an $80 donation to “The Cancer Support Center”.

Also in the mail today was a Ryan Zimmerman card that was from the 2007 Topps set.  I traded with Eric H (toastwrpi on SCN) and got it while I was gone.

Finally, my favorite package…  I have mentioned my friend Jon S (tjsportcards on Pat Neshek’s site) on here before.  Most recently that I got some Brian Dozier items signed for him as he is a huge Dozier fan.  Well, while I was gone Jon sent me a REAL nice package of Twins items signed while in Rochester.  Jon has season tickets to the Red Wings and does a ton of autographing there.  In the package was the following awesome items:
Tsuyoshi Nishioka postcard
Tsuyoshi Nishioka eTopps card (can’t be too many of these out there outside of Jon’s and mine!)
Tsuyoshi Nishioka 2012 Allen & Ginter
Danny Valencia 2011 Allen & Ginter
Liam Hendriks 2012 Allen & Ginter
Chris Parmelee 2012 Topps (upgrade to the one I have)
Chris Parmelee 2012 Allen & Ginter
Chris Parmelee 2012 Topps Heritage
Jon has taken great care of me with my Rochester needs.  I hope to even the score someday!  THANKS JON!

Wade’n Through The Mail

Today was a great mail day!  I got in only one package but it was a good one!  Last week I sent Wade Boggs the two Sports Illustrated magazines he was on the cover of and a check for $40 to All Children’s Hospital and today they were returned signed!  One was signed with HOF 05.  He even used the marker I provided.  Great additions to the collection!