Adventures in Autograph Collecting
I recently received my February, 1968 Baseball Digest back from Rick Reichardt and was hoping to find a Billy Williams signing event soon. Turns out I did not have to wait long! Jim & Steve’s Sportscards in Chicago announced Williams was going to be a guest of theirs at a signing event. I sent in my magazine and received it back today! They even sent me a picture of Billy signing my magazine!
To say I am thrilled is an understatement! Now I need a Tony Oliva signing to complete it!
Today a Hall of Famer showed up in the mailbox. I had sent a July 1986 Baseball Digest along with a ticket from 07.16.2011 to Bert Blyleven just before the World Baseball Classic knowing it would take a while to come back to me. Bert was a coach with the Netherlands team so he was in Japan for a while. Today I received the ticket with “#28 Retired” as requested as well as the Baseball Digest signed beautifully!
If you follow this blog you know I just started getting into signed Baseball Digest magazines. Since I just started, I don’t have any of the deceased players so when I came across one on eBay for sale from cardboardlegendsonline I was pretty excited. This issue was signed by Harmon Killebrew and was the issue from January, 1970. It even had JSA authentication and is in perfect newsstand shape!
I received my Rick Reichardt Baseball Digest from February, 1968 back today signed beautifully by Rick. I hope to find a Billy Williams signing soon so I can get him and then Tony Oliva to complete it.