Category: Private Signing

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!

Right Up My Alley!

A pair of magazine packages arrived today! Gene Alley signed the August, 1966 Baseball Digest. I am now going to send it to Bill Mazeroski to complete it. The other package was a pair of Sports Illustrateds from October, 30, 1989 that Kelly Downs signed via a private signing put on by Jeff F (haleysdaddy0304 on SCN). This is the issue that covered the 1989 World Series Earthquake. Jeff kept everyone up to date with awesome communication throughout the signing process.

Gammons!

Doug K (4192Hits on SCN) runs Cardboard Promotions in the New England area. You may recognize his name from my pile of Joe Mauer signed items I received from him a while back. Doug treats customers’ items as if they were his own. I never had an issue with anything I ever sent in to one of his signings. He recently had Peter Gammons as an autograph guest. He sold so many tickets that he had to have Gammons come back a week later to finish everything up. I had sent in a baseball to have Gammons sign it with “HOF 05” and, like everything else previously, was received in perfect condition!