Category: Story Ball Collection

What a Steal!

Today’s mail brought just one package.  It was a return from a baseball I mailed nearly three years ago.  It was worth the wait!

In game four of the 2004 ALCS against the Yankees, the Red Sox were down to their final out and were down three games to none in the best of seven series. Kevin Millar walked to lead off the bottom of the 9th and Dave Roberts pinch ran for him.  Roberts stole second base and ended up scoring the tying run and the Red Sox went on their improbable run to win the World Series.

Dave Roberts signed my baseball and wrote what he remembered about the steal on it.  It is a pretty neat story ball for the collection.

Roe Roe Roe Your Boat

Back in late April, 2013 I sent a baseball to Roe Skidmore asking him to write about his one at bat in the Major Leagues and his 1.000 batting average.  Today I received a really nice note from him apologizing for the long delay in getting it returned to me and that it got put in a corner of his office behind a file cabinet and he just found it.  His note was awesome as was the baseball.  I really appreciate former players like Mr Skidmore who genuinly cares about people who send requests to them.  Thanks Mr Skidmore!

Be My Valentine!

Today I received three items to add to my autograph collection.  The first was the Bobby Valentine regional Sports Illustrated magazine.  I sent it to Scott S (the SI King) for a private signing he was doing.  It turned out great!

I also received a baseball I sent to a player who only played one game in the Major Leagues, John Paciorek.  He signed the baseball about his game and what he has done since his baseball career finished.  It is a neat baseball!

Lastly I received an Andy Pettitte baseball I bought from Justin M (jwm202 on SCN).

A Sticky Mess?

I recently sent in a couple items to a private signing that my pal Robert T (lutherlafy on SCN) had with some baseball players from the Tulsa, OK area.  Today I received them and they could not have turned out any better!

As a follow up to my Tim McClelland “George Brett Pine Tar Game” story ball, Robert got me a story ball with George Frazier to write about his memories.  Before George played for the Twins and won a World Championship with them (1987), he pitched for the Yankees.  Once the baseball commissioner decided to have the Pine Tar Game resumed, George was to go out and pitch the top of the 9th inning against the Royals.  Keep in mind this was almost a month after the start of the game.  George took up two panels writing about his memory of the conclusion of the game.

Also being received and pretty much as cool as the Frazier ball was two full tickets to Dylan Bundy’s ML Debut game.  Dylan is a highly rated rookie in the Orioles organization and signed each ticket with “ML Debut”.

A couple awesome items from Robert today!  Thanks pal!