After my first Hamelin Baseball Digest was smeared, Josh M (ridiculousxdream on SCN) was able to get a replacement for me. It arrived today and looks much better than the first one!
Category: Private Signing
The Chemist
Jose Canseco was the first 40/40 player in MLB history. He was also the person who exposed the steroid scandal and was one of the top users of PEDs. Carlos Lopez of the Coliseum Kingz had a signing with him and I sent in three Baseball Digest magazines. I received them all back today signed in blue Sharpie as requested!
Tek!
Back in 2015, I sent in my 11.08.2004 Time Magazine to Doug K to have Keith Foulke sign it. It is a classic cover that features Jason Varitek leaping into Foulke’s arms to celebrate the final out of the 2004 World Series. Foulke signed it beautifully and I waited until Varitek was signing at a reasonable cost to complete it. When I saw Red Seat Collectibles was having Tek in for a signing, I sent in the magazine to have it completed. It arrived today! It was signed exactly how I requested it to be! Red Seat did a great job and I can now call this issue completed!
I also received my second envelope from Mike E which contained a 2023 Topps #56 Jermaine Palacios and an upgrade (not much of one as Kyle’s autograph is not great to begin with) to my 2021 Topps Heritage #668 Kyle Garlick card.
All in all a great mail day!
Mitch Garver
Wow! What an amazing experience! Back in mid-2023 Todd B (moselder71 on SCN) announced he was having a signing with Mitch Garver with the money going to ASPCA. I was excited because I had a number of items for my Twins collection that I wanted signed by Mitch so I sent them to Todd. The signing came and went and I did not hear anything so I reached out to Todd and he told me he forgot my package when he had the signing. He contacted Mitch about it and Mitch told him to send it to the ballpark. I did not hear anything after the season and Todd told me Mitch preferred to do all that stuff during the baseball season so wait for 2024. the 2024 season ended and I still had not heard anything so I reached out to Todd. Todd told me that he reached out to Mitch and did not hear anything so he would refund me the cost as well as replace the items. That was a good resolution but I thought I would try to reach out to Mitch via X. I made a post and would you believe Mitch messaged me directly! He asked for details and said he vaguely remembered my stuff and he would look into it. I felt I had hope! He must have contacted Todd as well because Todd informed me that Mitch reached out to the Mariners and asked they send him his fan mail. A couple days later Mitch messaged me and informed me he had my items and signed them and they would be on their way to me. I was really excited and thanked him for going above and beyond for me. It was really a great ending when the items showed up today and each item was signed beautifully!
The items I received are:
2021 Topps #US215 (pictured with Taylor Rogers)
2021 Topps #470
2022 Topps #529
2020 Gypsy Queen #145
2020 Topps Now Opening Day #OD-144
2021 Topps Now Opening Day #OD-127
04.05.2018 ticket with “1st MLB HR”
09.28.2018 ticket with “4 for 5 6 RBI”
08.31.2019 ticket with “Breaks MLB All Time Team HR Record #268”
Awesome additions to my collection! The power of X (formerly Twitter) is amazing!