Wow! What a cool mail day today! Michael E (einho on SCN) had a private signing with Curt Schilling for charity on December 21st and got three items signed for me. The first was a ticket from his 3,000th game. He inscribed it “3000th K”. The second was the 11.08.2004 Sports Illustrated that already had Johnny Damon sign it. When Curt signed it, he told Michael “we are all LOADED drunk in this photo but you wouldn’t know it. Photoshop is a wonderful thing. They took that pic at 7am when they got off the flight. We had been drinking for 86 years with the people.” That was neat but the coolest was Lanny Frattare’s scorecard from the game when Curt threw his first Major League complete game shutout. When Michael put this scorecard in front of Curt, he thought it was a ML Scout’s scorecard. When he told him it was Lanny’s card he was surprised that it was in such good condition after all these years. He looked at it and said “I had one strike out that day. Know who it was? Barry Bonds. Fastball in.” Amazing he remembered it. With Curt being inducted into the Hall of Fame soon (hopefully), these items are really cool additions to my collection! Thanks Michael and thanks Curt!
Category: Private Signing
Marty Is The (Brenna)MAN!
Today I received my ticket I had sent to Jonathan O (Jumpinjon on SCN) who assisted in a signing with Marty Brennaman. Marty signed my ticket with “Final Game 9/26/19”. Thanks Marty and Jonathan!
They’re Real And They’re Spectacular!
Today I received a real nice box of goodies I had sent in to Tom Orr for the Chicago Sports Spectacular. I have worked with Tom MANY times and have never been disappointed and this time was no different. I was able to get a Baseball/1975 magazine with Lou Brock on the cover signed. It has a cool photo of Lou sliding back to first base after a pickoff attempt. I also got the 03.05.2012 Sports Illustrated signed by Ozzie Guillen and my 300 win baseball signed by Tom Glavine with ” 305 W’s”. All items are awesome! Thanks Tom!
For Scher(zer)!
Today I received a nice package and had another dropped off. The package that was mailed to me had my 11.09.2015 Sports Illustrated in it. It now has six autographs on it with Luke Hochevar being added via a signing with Doug B (dugoutdug on SCN). Doug did a great job with it and getting back in the mail to me real fast.
My other item received today was from Nick K. Nick lives near me and goes to the hotel and ballpark chasing autographs. Earlier in the season he was able to get Willians Astudillo to sign his 2019 Topps Heritage card. When the Nationals were in town towards the end of the season he was able to get Max Scherzer(!) to sign the 04.28.2014 Sports Illustrated at the hotel. He said Max was a little tipsy and was willing to sign. He also got Brian Dozier to sign the ticket when he hit three home runs for me at the same time. I am REALLY excited to add Max on that SI to my collection. I have sent that issue to no less than five people to try to get it signed. Thanks for all your work Nick!