Doug K (4192Hits on SCN) runs Cardboard Promotions in the New England area. You may recognize his name from my pile of Joe Mauer signed items I received from him a while back. Doug treats customers’ items as if they were his own. I never had an issue with anything I ever sent in to one of his signings. He recently had Peter Gammons as an autograph guest. He sold so many tickets that he had to have Gammons come back a week later to finish everything up. I had sent in a baseball to have Gammons sign it with “HOF 05” and, like everything else previously, was received in perfect condition!
Category: JG Taylor Spink Award
A Stark Return
Today I received a baseball I had sent out at the end of July. I should have known it was a bad time to send it with the trade deadline and then the playoffs coming up but Jayson Stark signed my baseball and included “2019 J G Taylor Spink Award” on it. It looks great and is a real nice addition to my collection. Jayson also included a note apologizing for it taking so long. Thanks Jayson!
A Great Ball Anyway You Gage It
Today I received a baseball signed by the 2015 J G Taylor Spink recipient Tom Gage. Brad C (thekid1 on SCN) got it signed at a banquet and I bought it from him. I tried to find a way to contact Mr Gage after he received the award from the Hall of Fame but was unable to. I am really excited to add this to my collection. Tom signed it with “HOF Spink Award”. It looks great! Thanks Brad!
The Exceptional Mr Elliott!
I always love a mail day after a holiday. I get two days worth of mail. Even better is when the holiday is a Monday as yesterday was. Today’s mail day fit the bill!
Back in August I emailed Mr Bob Elliott asking him if he would be willing to autograph a baseball along with “2012 J G Taylor Spink Award” and if he had a charity of choice. He replied he would be delighted to and his donations go to the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation. I mailed it off and received it today. We have emailed a couple times in the meantime and I found him to be very receptive and kind. In fact, in one reply he told me that he had signed 100’s of baseballs and my package was the most organized of all. I am guessing it was because I provided an envelope already addressed to the charity with all it needing was postage from Canada. I included cash for return postage as well as the postage to mail the donation and he returned it and paid the postage himself. I am very excited to add Mr Elliott’s autograph to my collection and to have the interaction I had with him. Thank you Mr Elliott!
Also in today’s mail was an envelope with two autographed cards I bought from Mickey’s Sports Cards. They both had real nice blue ink signatures on them. They were a 1968 Bob Allison and a 1967 Zoilo Versalles.