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!
Category: Misc
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!
Not Bogg’d Down
Wade Boggs is a heck of a signer these days. He signs for a nominal donation and while he doesn’t usually add any inscriptions, he signs in blue Sharpie which makes items look great. I have a number of Bogg’s autographs, including a pair of 3,000th hit tickets, but came across a trio of the cards the Tampa Bay Devil Rays handed out at the game Wade got his 3,000th hit as well as the stub the person used to get into the game so I bought them. I sent the ticket and one of the cards to Wade and received them back signed today. I have wanted one of the 5″x7″ cards since I saw them right after the game but never got around to buying one until this lot came up for sale. I am happy to add these to my collection!
Let’s Go To The Movies!
Today’s autograph additions complete a couple movie tickets… at least as far as they can be signed. Mike C (Mac6185 on SCN) attended a signing with a number of stars and brought along a couple tickets I had. Chauncey Leopardi (Squints) and Patrick Renna (Ham) from “The Sandlot” were signing as was Thomas Ian Nicholas (Henry Rowengartner) from “Rookie of the Year”. I had a Japanese movie ticket signed by all the kids in “The Sandlot” except these two and Benny The Jet but Benny does not sign anything. Mike got both of these guys to complete my Japanese move ticket stub as well as Nicholas to sign a Japanese movie ticket stub as well as an oversized United States premiere ticket stub. I am happy with all of them!