Today’s mail brought a box of four magazines from the Nolan Ryan Foundation. If you want a Nolan Ryan autograph, they do an AMAZING job taking care of your stuff and getting it back to you, etc. They are a first rate operation when it comes to autographs. Nolan visits the place to sign autographs a couple times a year so your wait could be as long as six months but it is worth the wait.
Since I already have all his Sports Illustrated magazines signed, I decided to get some other “odd ball” type magazines. Today I received:
1974 Baseball Illustrated
06.16.1975 Newsweek
1977 Baseball Illustrated
04.30.1980 Inside Sports
All were signed in the perfect location in perfect blue Sharpie and included a NRF hologram.
Category: Private Signing
Bird Is The Word
Today I received a ticket signed by Greg Bird. He inscribed 1st MLB HR on it as requested. Unfortunately, the person who got it signed for me used a real thin marker and the autograph does not look the best. The interesting part of the ticket was that Greg hit his first TWO home runs in that game against the Twins.
Right Down The Gullett
Today I received my March 3, 1975 Sports Illustrated from Ryan B (silverbacksports on SCN). Ryan got it signed by Don Gullett to finish it off for me through one of his private signings. I got all four of the main featured players on the cover to sign it: Gary Nolan, Don Gullett, Clay Carroll, and Jack Billingham.
Oh Balls
Today I received my final package from Paul C in Florida until February. It was three prospects from players who finished up their season playing in the FL instruction league.
The three baseballs are:
Austin Meadows w/”Go Pirates”
Anderson Espinoza
Harold Ramirez
As always, Paul did a great job.
Another package I received was a 1979 Topps Twins Prospects card signed by Kevin Stanfield. Kevin’s autograph finished off the card as it was already signed by Sam Perlozzo and Rick Sofield. This is my second card signed by all three. Kevin signed the card via a private signing by Curtis C (curtisc on SCN) and was signed real nice.