I thought I had everything I needed signed by Johnny Damon when I found a listing that Jamie B (jamieblye on SCN) had for a private signing and looked to make sure. Turns out I did not have his signature on the 04.04.2005 Sports Illustrated magazine. It is the 2005 Baseball Preview Issue and has Derek Jeter pictured with Damon. I will never finish this because Jeter’s autographs are astronomically priced and if I was to spend the money on something there are a half dozen items I would get signed before this SI. It looks great though!
Category: Private Signing
Gunnar!
One of the most exciting young players in baseball is Gunnar Henderson of the Baltimore Orioles. He made his debut in 2022 and I happened to purchase a pair of tickets from his debut game. About a year and a half ago, shortly after his debut, a signing was posted on SCN by jamieblye. I have used Jamie many times over the years and he does a great job with my items so I sent in one of the tickets. The signing was postponed and delayed for a long time but it finally happened and today I received my ticket signed along with “MLB Debut 8-31-22” I am really happy to have this one back finally!
3000th Hit
A while ago I had sent a ticket to Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) for a private signing he was going to have with Dave Winfield. It was a ticket from his 3,000th hit game. It was the first of three 3,000th hits I saw in person and remember it like yesterday. I had my second ticket I bought from that game signed at Twinsfest years ago but he did not inscribe 3,000th hit so when I saw Tom was going to see him, I sent in my ticket. As luck would have it, I got it back but he forgot the inscription. Tom was cool and told me to send it back to him and he would get Dave to add it next time he saw him. Today it arrived with “3000th Hit”. I was a little nervous since the marker tip might be different or the color or anything else that might look like it was not signed and inscribed at the same time but Tom did an awesome job matching it up. You cannot tell that the signature and inscription were signed around four months apart! I am excited to have this in my collection!
Just Grate(rol)
The 2020 Topps Heritage card #74 features the Twins’ Lewis Thorpe and Brusdar Graterol on it. I had one card signed by Graterol and another signed by Thorpe but not one with both. So, when I saw that OneWay77 was having a signing with Graterol, I sent in the card already signed by Thorpe. Now I have one card completed with both players signing it. Interestingly, OneWay77 had a signing with Graterol a while ago and that is how I got that card signed! If I see Thorpe signing at an event I will send in the other card but I am not going to worry about it at this point!