Kitty Kaat

Mike Macguire is the autograph agent for Jim Kaat and does an amazing job with items for collectors. I recently acquired a 2022 HOF Induction ticket and sent it to Mike to have Jim sign it. They met up in Cooperstown for the Hall of Fame weekend and signed the ticket. It was signed exactly where I requested it and looks great! Now to add Tony O and Big Papi…

3000th Hit

A while ago I had sent a ticket to Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) for a private signing he was going to have with Dave Winfield. It was a ticket from his 3,000th hit game. It was the first of three 3,000th hits I saw in person and remember it like yesterday. I had my second ticket I bought from that game signed at Twinsfest years ago but he did not inscribe 3,000th hit so when I saw Tom was going to see him, I sent in my ticket. As luck would have it, I got it back but he forgot the inscription. Tom was cool and told me to send it back to him and he would get Dave to add it next time he saw him. Today it arrived with “3000th Hit”. I was a little nervous since the marker tip might be different or the color or anything else that might look like it was not signed and inscribed at the same time but Tom did an awesome job matching it up. You cannot tell that the signature and inscription were signed around four months apart! I am excited to have this in my collection!

The Hawk, again

About a month ago I received a Baseball Digest signed by Andre Dawson. The Hawk was on a pair of covers and at the time I only had the one issue. I quickly tracked down the other issue and sent it to Dawson. Today I received the January, 1988 issue signed by Andre. He has one of the prettiest signatures in the hobby today. I am done with him until I find something else to collect that he is a part of!