Today I received a couple items signed by Julio Urias. Julio is a real young up and coming baseball ace for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jes C (jeserone on SCN) got Julio to sign his Topps Now card (debut at 19) and a ticket from his Major League debut game. I am really excited to add these to the collection because Julio is going to be really good real soon. Thanks Jes!
Category: Misc
He Caught JFK
Today I received a baseball signed by Marty Kutyna. I had requested him to write a story about catching the 1962 Opening Day first pitch from JFK but it looked like he may have had a little trouble writing on the baseball and signed it with a couple unrelated inscriptions. It appears he wrote it in pencil first so he would not mess it up. I appreciate him taking his time to have a nice baseball for me. I received that today as well as an envelope that he paid for with his own money that had a bunch of items from his career including a real nice large photo of JFK signing his baseball. He included three signed items personalized to me. I also got a dvd on Mickey Vernon that he included in my baseball package. All in all a real nice return! Thanks Marty!
Minions!
Today I did not get anything in the mail but Cami did! Well, I did receive the Bruce Springsteen’s The Ties that Bind box set but it was not signed. Cami got the coolest mail today.
About ten months or so ago, Cami mailed a couple “Artists Cards” to Chris Renaud. Chris is an animator in the Dispicable Me/Minions franchise. If you know Cami, her all time favorite characters are minions. Her nickname for student council is even Minion! Chris graciously drew two minions and signed her cards. When she opened them she just stared at them. She was so excited. Chris really made her day and me envious! I tried to offer something to Cami in trade for one of them but she was having NONE of that!
Three’s A Charm!
Today was a fun mail day! I received three packages today of a couple items I bought and a nice surprise from a Twin!
The first package was the ticket from Luis Severino that I bought from Dustin K (bigvig56 on SCN) from the same event he got my baseball signed. This is a ticket from Luis’ ML Debut and has the inscription. It has a Steiner hologram on the back and a plastic card.
The next package I opened was from Kevin M (mrmain18 on SCN) and had two cards he got signed by John Smiley at an event in Pittsburgh. Kevin got my only two cards I needed signed by John after multiple attempts to get them signed or buy them from others. John has a ghost signer at the address he is widely known to have. I even purchased a couple from reputable sellers in the past which ended up being ghost signed as well. I am happy to FINALLY be able to mark Smiley’s cards off my need list!
My final envelope I hoped was an SASE I sent to Terry Ryan at Target Field. He graciously signed the 2015 Topps Twins team card I sent and included a pair of his signed business cards that I also requested. These items reminded me about the time I chatted with Mr Ryan at a Twinsfest event. It was a highlight of that Twinsfest for me and these items made me think of that time.
Thanks Dustin, Kevin, and Mr Ryan for making my mail day extra fun today!