Mike McGuire is Jim ‘Kitty’ Kaat’s agent for autographs and he has a deal where you can send him cards and the fee and he will get them signed whenever he sees Jim. This is only for trading cards. Everything else has to go through a promotor at a show. I took advantage of the card deal and sent in three cards. They arrived signed beautifully today and are awesome additions to the collection. They are:
2022 Allen & Ginter #323
07.16.2022 Topps Now #36 Retired ( I was at this game!)
07.24.2022 Topps Now Hall of Fame Induction
Category: Private Signing
Bull-Dozier
What an awesome return I received today for fans of Brian Dozier! Josh M (ridiculousxdream on SCN) did a signing with Dozier and I sent in five tickets from my collection to get signed. All were signed perfectly and included the inscriptions I requested. I received:
05.07.2012 – MLB Debut
05.13.2012 – 1st MLB HR
07.06.2015 – 1st Walk-off HR
06.01.2017 – Triple Play
07.15.2018 – Walk-off Grand Slam
My ONLY regret is that I forgot to include the three HR game. Next time!
Jo Jo Jo Johan!
Johan Santana recently appeared at his first signing in a long, long time; at least since he was inducted into the Twins Hall of Fame and before that probably Twinsfest. When I saw he was signing I had to decide what to send in as I need a handful of cards signed and a couple magazines but at the price point he was at I could barely justify sending in a pair of tickets. I am glad I did though as they arrived today. I sent in a full ticket from his Major League Debut which he signed and inscribed the full “Major League Debut” on it. The other ticket I sent in was from his first win in Houston and he inscribed that with “1st MLB Win”. Chris R (rifon on SCN) did a great job handling my tickets! It was not cheap but they turned out great and I am happy I sent them in.
‘Nother Cub
I am getting to the point where my 2016 Cubs Champion Sports Illustrated will be next to impossible to add any more autographs to it. Not because of space but because of the availability of the other signers. I think the only one left that is reasonably easy to obtain will be Pedro Strop (poor guy has the barcode over half his picture) but for now, I just added Addison Russell to it.
Jeremy F (jeremymichael on SCN) had a signing with Russell and I sent it in along with a debut ticket. Both were signed perfectly and the ticket also included MLB Debut.
