Today’s mail brought in a fun pair of items. Jerry D, via a Facebook group, posted that his father used to work with Gaylord Perry and he had a number of burlap peanut bags from Gaylord’s peanut farm that were signed and he was offering them for sale. I purchased a pair and they arrived today. Pretty cool oddball item for the collection!
Category: Misc
Who’s Keeping Score?
Over that last half dozen years, or more, I have been purchasing scorecards from Lanny Frattare’s collection. Lanny was the Pirates KDKA radio broadcaster from 1976-2008 and at retirement put his entire collection of scorecards up for sale. His son David handles all the sales. All scorecards are signed by Lanny and I really like getting them signed by the person who made the event special. Today’s scorecards are:
05.03.1977 at Braves – Phil Niekro 11 IP CG Loss, 9Ks, 8ER, 12H
08.23.1985 vs Astros – Nolan Ryan 8 IP, 6K
06.17.2006 vs Twins – Joe Mauer 1-3, 2B – Joe Nathan 98th Career Save
08.17.2008 vs Mets- Johan Santana complete game shutout- 7Ks 3H
09.24.2008 at Brewers – CC Sabathia W 7 IP, 4H, 1R, 11K – Eric Gagne Final Career Hold #12
09.25.2008 at Brewers – Eric Gagne Final MLB Game & K, 718th Career K
No Bogged Down
The mail today included a 3,000th hit commemorative card and the February, 1984 Baseball Digest signed by Wade Boggs. He has always been a great signer for a fair donation. I think there are about three other Baseball Digest magazines that he is on the cover of that I have to track down. He included HOF 05 on the magazine!
Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
I received a pair of autographs from Rollie Fingers today. A while ago I purchased a dozen or so different hand painted stamped and cancelled cachet envelopes with baseball players on them. They are painted in water color and look really neat. While I have a few from years ago in my collection, they are mostly Twins and not something that I specifically collect. But, when I got a nice price on these and they looked cool I grabbed the ones I figured I could get signed. Rollie signed his cachet as well as a Baseball Digest from March, 1982. Pretty cool to get a couple Hall of Famer autographs!