Every day is a great day to receive a Hall of Famer’s autograph but today was especially great because of the quantity of items from Bert Blyleven. It took just seven days to get back the following items signed exactly as requested by Bert:
07.16.2011 Twins Ticket w/”#28 Retired”
1973/1974/1976/1986 Topps Wendy’s cards
2011 Baseball Hall of Fame Yearbook w/”HOF 2011″
I am so excited on each of these!
I also received the June, 1988 Baseball Digest that I just got back signed by Bret Saberhagen now signed by Mark Gubicza. He returned my donation and included his full signature instead of his typical “G”.
Lastly, Ryan S (Rls2239 on SCN) had a private signing with Jake Odorizzi. I sent in the last cards I needed signed by Jake to complete all the Twins cards I needed. I received:
2019 Topps #63
2020 Topps #409
05.10.2019 Topps Now #210
2020 Topps New Road To Opening Day #OD-146
Great day!
Category: Misc
Keeping Score
Eric Gagne was an awesome reliever for a couple teams over his career but is most remembered for winning the NL Cy Young as a Dodger. His career ended as a member of the Brewer’s bullpen. I acquired a couple scorecards from Lanny Frattare’s broadcasting career that intersected Gagne’s career. Gagne had a signing with Jim F (jimfalbo21 on SCN) so I sent them in to the signing. Today they arrived on my front step. Yes, on a Sunday. Yeah USPS! Both scorecards were signed exactly where I wanted, with what pen I wanted, and with what inscriptions I wanted. I now have a scorecard from these two games in my collection:
09.24.2008 Pirates @ Brewers with “Last MLB Hold #12”
09.25.2008 Pirates @ Brewers with “Final MLB Game 718th MLB K”
The scorecard for the 25th was not completed by Lanny but it shows the final line from newspaper clippings taped to the scorecard.
A World Series MVP
Every once in a while I receive a package that blows me away. Today’s package did just that. I had mailed Rick Dempsey a pair of Baseball Digest magazines that he was on the cover of along with a donation. What he returned was pretty cool. He signed both magazines with “1983 World Series MVP” (World Series spelled out even instead of W.S.!) and three other goodies but the coolest thing was the note he wrote. Part of what he wrote was “I really enjoyed seeing this Digest again. it has a lot of names I haven’t read about in a long time and a lot of memories.” That was pretty neat. He also included signed cards from the two teams he won a world series with (Dodgers and Orioles) and a personalized postcard. It really made my day!
Top Heavy
A while ago I picked up some Wild Horse cachets with the intent of sending them off to get signed. I recently found then and send off the envelope featuring Dan Gladded and Greg Olson from the 1991 World Series collision where Greg is balancing on his head. Today I received it signed by Greg. I will await a Gladden private signing to finish it up!