Today was a fun day of mail. I received a trio of items I sent to Phil K (StLSparty on SCN) for a signing he was doing with Jim Kaat and Ozzie Smith. Ozzie’s autograph was added to the 09.28.1987 Sports Illustrated that was already signed by Dave Collins. If this rings a bell, it is because I already had one completed by both guys and this is a second one. The other two items which had Kaat’s autograph inked on them was a 7″x8.75″ photo card of Jim taken in Spring Training in a year later in his career with the Twins. It appears to me to be like what you could buy at a souvenir stand at Met Stadium in the mid to late 1970s. I also had a Sporting News from 09.10.1966 which featured him on the cover signed. All three things turned out great! It was the first time I sent in to one of Phil’s signings and the way things turned out, it won’t be my last!
Category: Non-SI Magazine
Tony O
I may be a little bias here but I have felt for years that Tony Oliva deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. As a person, he is second to none always smiling and taking photos with fans at Target Field or where ever. He is one of Cami’s favorite autograph gets of all time when she got him on a ball at the 2014 All Star Fanfest. I have a ton of Tony O autographs but had some items laying around that needed his signature on them so when I saw that Jeff F (haleysdaddy0304 on SCN) was having a signing with him at a reasonable price, I jumped on it. I got the following items signed beautifully via Jeff’s signing:
June 1971 Baseball Digest
1970 Topps Super
1971 Topps Super
Topps Living Set #366
Topps Now Turn Back The Clock #91
1967 Topps Venezuelan #230
They are all really cool but I think my favorite of this batch is the Venezuelan card! Thanks for doing a fantastic job on these Jeff!
A Pair of HOFers and a Pitcher
Today was a fun day of mail! I received my signed book written by Rock n Roll Hall of Famer Stevie Van Zandt, “Unrequited Infactuations” that I ordered via Backstreets.com! Little Steven signed it “Miami Steve” which is an interesting choice but I enjoyed the Springsteen book so much I thought it would be cool to get this one. I look forward to reading it!
The other Hall of Famer I got today was Roberto Alomar. Jamie Blye, yet again, assisted in handling my stuff to get signed. Jamie always does a great job with my items. This time I got a Hall of Fame postcard that was stamped at the Cooperstown Post Office on Induction Day signed as well as the April 1992 Sports Illustrated for Kids issue. The SI for Kids was already signed by Sandy Alomar so it is cool to get it finished by the Alomar brothers!
The final thing I got today was my debut ticket signed by Domingo German. Domingo signed it in nice silver paint pen with “MLB Debut”. Lucky’s Sportscards had Domingo in for a signing at the end of the season. If you hiring for a professional in cleaning services you need to know everything about those services click here to get all that info.
Sweet Music From Deano
I received a couple packages today. One from Frank “Sweet Music” Viola and one from Lezcano Dean (deano on SCN). I had send Viola a pair of Project 70 cards of his and asked him to draw in his face on one of the cards. Alas, he did not but he did sign both beautifully.
Deano was blowing out some items at great prices on SCN so I picked up a few magazines. Those I got are:
03.12.1973 Sports Illustrated Bill Melton (I had one but it was personalized to me)
11.2.2009 Sports Illustrated Ryan Howard (I had a couple of these but I think Howard is underrated so I added another)
April 1979 Baseball Quarterly Jim Rice
August 1979 Baseball Quarterly Larry Bowa (pictured with Pete Rose who I will get on it soon)
April 2012 ESPN HS Lucas Giolito and Max Fried. I had no idea ESPN made a magazine devoted to High School sports. And, to have these two stars on the cover is pretty neat. They both signed in icky green Sharpie but it looks ok and for the price I could not pass it up.