John Montefusco was a solid pitcher for the Giants, among other teams, even winning the 1975 NL Rookie of the Year award! Chris R (rifon on SCN) was offering a signing with Montefusco so I sent in my May, 1977 Baseball Digest. Today I received it signed beautifully!
Category: Non-SI Magazine
Sabes
Bret Saberhagen was a pitcher for the Kansas City Royals for a number of years in the 1980’s and 1990’s. He is a two time AL Cy Young winner and a World Series champion (was World Series MVP too!). Bret and his wife have a foundation called SabesWings which raises money and helps those impacted by cancer and the financial impact that results. Part of that fundraising involves Bret signing autographs. I picked up a pair of nice Baseball Digest magazines and sent them in to Bret and received them back today. He signed my February, 1986 and June, 1988 issues in nice blue Sharpie.
Fred and Some Twins Spring Cards!
Today I received a pair of packages. The first was my November, 1975 Baseball Digest issue signed beautifully by Fred Lynn. Darrell H (thehalk on SCN) had a signing with Fred and I sent in the magazine. You can see it in this photo of Fred signing items. It is in a magazine bag with a sheet of folded paper on top but that’s it!
The other package was a fun one from Matt H (MattyIce on SCN). Matt lives in Fort Myers and hits up the Twins spring training facilities multiple times each spring. I have been getting cards signed via Matt for a few years now and he does not let me down! I received the following cards from Matt today:
Ehire Adrianza 2020 Topps #690
Ehire Adrianza 2020 Topps Heritage #595
Byron Buxton 2021 Topps #74
Byron Buxton 2024 Topps Heritage #126
Carlos Correa 2024 Topps Heritage #234
Jhoan Duran 2024 Topps Heritage #100
Jhoan Duran 2022 Topps Now #140
Ryan Jeffers 2023 Topps Heritage #659
Brooks Lee 2024 Topps Now #372
Brooks Lee 2024 Topps Now #390
Royce Lewis/Carlos Correa 2024 Topps #653 signed by Royce
Jose Miranda 2024 Topps #507
Chris Paddack 2024 Topps #US14
Joe Ryan 2024 Topps Heritage #246
Joe Ryan 2022 Topps Now #896
Cole Sands 2022 Topps #US208
Zebby Matthews 2024 Topps Now #551
Matt Wallner 2024 Allen & Ginter #345
Simeon Woods Richardson 2024 Topps #US295
I am so excited to knock these off the list that I cannot wait for next spring! I have another package of a few cards coming from one more guy in the next week. That will be fun again marking those off my need list when they arrive!
A Couple Digests
Today’s mail brought a couple fun Baseball Digest magazines! Dennis Eckersley signed and mailed back my November, 1992 issue and Jimmy Key signed and returned my March, 1988 issue. Both were signed really nice in blue!