Wow! What a great day of mail! I received four Sports Illustrated magazines today from Donnie D (Macey225 on SCN) who attended a signing with Jason Heyward and Ben Zobrist. Donnie got the following signed for me:
2 @ 08.24.2015 Sports Illustrated Jason Heyward with JSA
04.20.2016 Sports Illustrated Jason Heyward (already signed by Jake Arrieta)
10.10.2016 Sports Illustrated Jason Heyward and Ben Zobrist added to the SI that already had nine autographs on it! (Eleven on it, eight to go!)
Category: Private Signing
A Colome Cleansing
Todd Barclay (moselder71 on SCN) recently had a signing with former Twin Alex Colome. I had a card I needed signed for my Twins card set so I sent it in and received it today. Colome’s signature is nothing much to write home about but I can mark him off my need list now.
King Felix
A while ago a friend of mine sent me a bunch of his Mariners tickets from over the years. One of them in the group was a Felix Hernandez first career win ticket. Dan Heyer (Desert Autographs) had a signing with Felix and I sent in the ticket. Felix provided a real large signature on the ticket along with “1st MLB Win”. It looks awesome!
Go West Young Man
Like him or hate him, Joe West will be a Hall of Famer some day. What he did for baseball is legendary. Todd S (toddschafer on SCN) and his company Under The Radar Sports Promotions had a signing with West and today I received the items I sent in for it. I received a pair of baseballs, one with just Joe’s name on it and the other with his name and “5460 MLB Games Umpired”, and a ticket from August 15th, 2018. The ticket is from the game when Joe umpired his 5,164th MLB game when he passed the previous second place all time leader for games umpired (Bruce Froemming). This game was at Target Field. I had asked for an inscription on it but it was missed. I will resend it back to have Joe add the inscription.