It was been quite a while since I received something in the mail that I could post on here! I am excited to be able to say today I received two Sports Illustrated magazines signed by Carlos “Chooch” Ruiz from a private signing. Bill M (nosamm on SCN) had Ruiz come to his store in New Jersey for a signing and I sent in the magazines for it. It finished one issue that featured Ruiz and Rocco Baldeli that I already had signed by Rocco. The other issue was a regional issue available in the Philadelphi area. They turned out great!
Category: Sports Illustrated
Zimmerman’s the Man!
Today I received a Sports Illustrated magazine I had sent to J Carr (graphmanj on SCN) for a signing sponsored by LoJo Sports for Ryan Zimmerman. The issue was already signed by Ryan Braun and Justin Upton so to get Zimmerman on it makes it even cooler. I now have half the players on the cover to sign it!
“Mega”zines!
Today I received the other end of a trade I recently made with Tim M (jmac25 on SCN). Tim runs SportsIllustratedIssues.com. I had a couple extra SI’s and asked him if he needed any. He picked out a real nice 1956 issue that I had signed by 4 players with the best being Stan Musial. He also needed a Greg Vaughn regional issue from 1998. I sent those two issues to him and in return, he sent me the following:
1970 Tigers issue signed by Denny McLain
1978 Yankees issue signed by Fred Stanley
1985 Royals issue signed by Hal McRae
1986 Mets issue signed by Ron Darling
2003 Angels issue signed by Ryan Budde and Steve Soliz
I am very pleased with the quality of the magazines and hope to trade with Tim again someday!
GREAT mail day!
Today we returned from a quick family vacation to Rapid City, SD and the baseball mail was awesome!
First, I mailed a request to Wade Boggs to sign a baseball and HOF postcard. Since I recently mailed to him for two Sports Illustrated magazines, I asked my father-in-law if he minded if I sent one in his name. It showed up to his house while we were gone. I sent $25 cash this time for the donation to the hospital. I received a real nice baseball with HOF 05 and HOF postcard also with HOF 05.
Then I opened the mail and found that Carlton Fisk had signed both of my Sports Illustrated magazines I had sent to him before leaving. That included an $80 donation to “The Cancer Support Center”.
Also in the mail today was a Ryan Zimmerman card that was from the 2007 Topps set. I traded with Eric H (toastwrpi on SCN) and got it while I was gone.
Finally, my favorite package… I have mentioned my friend Jon S (tjsportcards on Pat Neshek’s site) on here before. Most recently that I got some Brian Dozier items signed for him as he is a huge Dozier fan. Well, while I was gone Jon sent me a REAL nice package of Twins items signed while in Rochester. Jon has season tickets to the Red Wings and does a ton of autographing there. In the package was the following awesome items:
Tsuyoshi Nishioka postcard
Tsuyoshi Nishioka eTopps card (can’t be too many of these out there outside of Jon’s and mine!)
Tsuyoshi Nishioka 2012 Allen & Ginter
Danny Valencia 2011 Allen & Ginter
Liam Hendriks 2012 Allen & Ginter
Chris Parmelee 2012 Topps (upgrade to the one I have)
Chris Parmelee 2012 Allen & Ginter
Chris Parmelee 2012 Topps Heritage
Jon has taken great care of me with my Rochester needs. I hope to even the score someday! THANKS JON!