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!
Category: Misc
Don’t Mess With Me Buster!
What a fun mail day today! I received a trifecta of items. The first I opened was a pair of Buster Posey Sports Illustrated magazines. Nik Key helped facilitate a signing with MLB Alumni that Buster joined in. I mailed a replacement magazine from the previous signing where they placed the MLB Hologram in a goofy location as well as the 11.08.2010 issue which features Posey and Brian Wilson on the cover. What is great about receiving the 2010 issue today is that Brian Wilson is doing a signing in a couple weeks so I will be able to finish that magazine with the signature of both players on it! Watch for that post in a couple weeks!
The next item I opened was a Danny Jackson Baseball Digest from December, 1988. Danny signed it in blue Sharpie and it looks great!
The last package I opened had a couple tickets that came back from a signing event that Mike C (Mac6185 on SCN) participated in where most of the cast from the Sandlot movie took part in as well as Harold Baines. I sent in a ticket from Harold Baines’ MLB Debut game which he signed and inscribed “MLB Debut”. His signature is garbage but it is what it is. The Sandlot item was a Japanese movie ticket and each actor pictured on the ticket signed it with their name and their character name. Those who signed it include:
Shane Obedzinski (Repeat)
Tom Guriy (Smalls)
Grant Gelt (Bertram)
Marty York (Yeah-Yeah)
Brandon Adams (Kenny DeNunez)
Victor DiMattia (Timmy)
All I need to complete it is:
Patrick Renna (Ham Porter)
Chauncey Leopardi (Squints)
and Mike Vitar (Benny The Jet Rodriguez). Vitar never signs so it will never have his autograph on it.
It is a cool little ticket with just enough perfect room for the remaining two realistic signers!
TK
This is not autograph related directly but something I am excited about all the same. If you have followed my blog for a while you may remember I recently got a ticket signed by Tom Kelly from the game he hit his only home run in and that the baseball is on display at Target Field. I had acquired a pair with the tremendous assistance of Mark B and once I received the one signed, I decided to donate the second to the Twins to be displayed with the ball. I run into the Twins Curator just about every game I go to because of where my seats are and I asked him if he would want the ticket and he was overjoyed to have it and told me he would display it with the ball. Today I went to the Twins game and took the below pictures of the ticket with the ball. I am pretty proud of this!
TK, Joe, and Eck
I have had some pretty good mail days but I think todays mail day is the best ever! I received items from three people and all are people I admire in baseball.
The first package was from Tom Kelly. My friend Mark B is the Tigers Ticket God. If he does not have a specific Detroit Tigers ticket he will track it down and that is exactly what he did for me. On May 26, 1975 TK hit his only MLB home run and Mark found me a pair of tickets to that game. TK signed one of them with “Only MLB HR”. I will donate the other ticket to the Twins as they have the home run baseball on display. I think a ticket would go great with it. The other item TK signed for me was a ticket for the 09.08.2012 Twins game when his #10 was retired. He inscribed that ticket with “#10 Retired”
The next package I opened was from Dennis Eckersley. I had mailed him a ticket from the 2004 Hall of Fame Induction which was postmarked from Cooperstown. He signed it beautifully. Now I need to send it to Paul Molitor to complete it.
I saved the best for last and I was blown away with how perfect everything was signed. Doug Keating (4192HITS on SCN) had a signing with Joe and I sent in a few items I had that I needed signed. The items I received are:
2015 Topps #700 SP Variation
2022 Allen & Ginter #163
2018 Topps Now Players Weekend Bonus PWB-66
2021 Topps Project 70 #629
10.06.2009 Ticket with “2009 AL MVP” and “Batting Champ .365”
09.29.2018 Ticket with “Last Run 1,018” and “Last RBI 923”
06.15.2019 Ticket with “#7 Retired”
Game used baseball from the game Joe’s #7 was retired with “#7 Retired 6/15/19”
Retail baseball from the game Joe’s #7 was retired with “#7 Retired 6/15/19”
The 2009 ticket is from Game #163 and has Joe pictured on it. It is signed in ultra fine silver deco and looks amazing. Actually, all of them look amazing. I am really excited to add these to my collection!