Today I received a pair of packages I recently sent out. The first was a really cool magazine with Whitey Ford on the cover as one of the images. Mark C (psugator1 on SCN) had a private signing with Whitey and got it signed really nice for me. I hope to add some of the other guys on it real soon! Also in the mail today was a baseball signed by Dan Shaughnessy. Dan was one of the three finalists for the Ford Frick Award at the Hall of Fame this year and I thought it would be cool to add his autograph to the collection before he is inducted in a couple years. I contacted him via the Boston Globe and he was kind enough to reply and sent me his address. It is a neat addition to the collection!
Category: Private Signing
The Big Hurt & Mr October
Today I received a package of a few items I sent in to Isaias F (franco858 on SCN) who had private signing with Frank Thomas and Reggie Jackson. I went through Isaias in his Reggie signing previously but was not pleased with the condition of the last two Reggie SI’s I had so I picked up new ones for the two issues and sent them in. Reggie signed his 08.30.1976 and 05.11.1987 issues in beautiful blue Sharpie.
A week or so after Reggie’s signing, Isaias had a signing with Frank Thomas so I sent in three SI’s and a HOF postcard. The 08.08.1994 and 03.13.2000 issues were signed beautifully in silver paint pen and the postcard and 07.18.2014 HOF Commemorative issue signed beautifully in blue Sharpie. I could not be more pleased with how everything turned out! Thanks Isaias!
The Ryan Express
There are not too many Foundations that do autograph signings as well as Nolan Ryan’s does. I heard via SCN that Nolan was going to have one more signing before Christmas and the deadline was around the end of November. I needed three of his Sports Illustrated magazines signed but found that his first issue was not in as good of shape as I would have liked so I only sent in two. I mailed in the 07.23.1979 and 05.01.1989 issues. (I have since found a real nice version of his first issue to send in next year.) Today I received the two magazines back signed beautifully with the Nolan Ryan hologram on each. They do an awesome job with everything. If you are looking for a Ryan autograph, you cannot go wrong sending in to the Nolan Ryan Foundation!
Also in the mail today was a 4×6 photo of Rudy Guiliani I received in trade with Eric M (erocmace on SCN). It was my first autograph of Mr Guiliani and a nice one at that.
May I?
Today I received the SI I recently had Brooks Robinson signed but this time it was signed by Lee May. Lee appeared on the 10.19.1970 Sports Illustrated issue along with Boog Powell, Bernie Carbo, Elrod Hendricks, Tony Perez and Brooks Robinson. I have it signed by all except Powell and Carbo. I sent it in to a signing that John B (badgley_signings on SCN) recently had with Mr May. It turned out great!