Today was a fun day to receive a pair of Sports Illustrated magazines from 1983 signed by Andre Dawson. Years ago I had gotten a pair of these signed by Hawk at a show. Both in black Sharpie. When I first started sending requests via the mail, I sent one to an address I thought was for Dave Stieb and never received it back. I found out later that the address I sent it to was to someone else who was purporting to be Stieb so that person enjoyed my SI, marker and donation. I kept the other one I had until Mr Stieb had a private signing. He eventually did and I sent in the remaining SI as well as three others and received them back signed beautifully. Today I received two of those signed by Mr Dawson. Andre has a beautiful signature and inked these up real nice. I will eventually send the remaining one to him but not for a while. Andre now owns a funeral home, yep, a funeral home, in Miami. Interesting career change!
Category: Sports Illustrated
Mega ‘Zine Day!
A while ago I purchased a card from Lance D and it went real well. A few days ago someone posted a comment about finding someone who could get a signing together with Troy Tulowitzki and I mentioned I had three Sports Illustrated magazines I needed Troy to sign. Lance noticed that post and reached out to me letting me know he had a couple Tulo SI’s signed and if I would be interested in them as he is in the process of downsizing his collection. I took a look and his collection is of the same quality as mine (ie blue Sharpie autographs on mint no label issues) so I was real excited to work out a deal with him for those I needed. Today I received them and am very pleased! They are:
04.27.1981 – Steve McCatty – (I have one signed by Mike Norris- This is a tough issue to get autographs of any of the five players on the cover!)
11.02.1992 – Pat Tabler/Pat Borders/Alfredo Griffen/Derek Bell/Pat Hentgen – (I have a couple issues in various stages of player signatures but none this complete or with any of these players! Too bad I could not combine the two and have one complete issue!)
06.18.2007 – Orlando Hernandez/Oliver Perez/Endy Chavez – (I have a couple with just Chavez)
05.05.2008 – Kosuke Fukudome – (I had one of these and never thought I would get it signed) with JSA
10.31.2011 – Yorvit Torrealba and Jon Jay – (I had one with just Jay’s signature)
06.02.2014 – Troy Tulowitzki – (I had two of these regional issues unsigned) with JSA
The cool part is that Willie Randolph is doing a signing in a couple weeks and I already have the 2007 issue packaged up and ready to send to that signing!
What a fun package of magazines!
Torrez! Torrez! Torrez!
I have posted a few updates related to the 09.24.2018 Sports Illustrated magazine that shows Bucky Dent’s playoff home run on the cover. I have three issues and got Don Denkinger, Carlton Fisk, Bucky Dent, and Mike Torrez to sign each one at different times. The magazine I received today completed my third issue when Mike Torrez signed it via a private signing hosted by Guy P (gpuglia on SCN). I have no idea why I needed three of the same issues signed by all four guys on each cover but I have them and hopefully will be able to trade it for something I do not have. They are all awesome and look great. It is a cool cover too.
WOW! Fun times!
After spending three days in New York City I came home to a lot of fun mail! I don’t get many bills by mail anymore as they are mostly electronically delivered so most of the mail I get is fun stuff. Going through my items I was really pleased with how everything turned out. The mail included:
03.05.2001 Nomar Garciaparra Sports Illustrated
Baseball signed by Nomar along with “1997 AL ROY”
08.25.1980 Al Bumbry Sports Illustrated (already signed by Fred Stanley)
1992 World Series Game 4 ticket stub signed by Tom Henke with “5th Postseason Save”
Baseball signed by Len Kasper with “Field of Dreams Game Tim Anderson Walkoff 8/12/2021”. I had requested Len to write his walkoff call but just got this.
I love mail days like this! 🙂