I received a pair of packages in the mail today! The first was from Vinnie M (vinniemiller on SCN). Vinnie gets me a lot of autographs of players who roll through Seattle. I only sent him items for the Twins series this year. He waits until the season is over to do his mail and return the items. So, today’s package was:
Jhoan Duran- 2023 Topps Heritage #294
Jorge Lopez- 2023 Topps Heritage #240
Joe Ryan- 2023 Topps Heritage #29
Emilio Pagan- 2023 Topps Heritage #415
Kenta Maeda- 2022 Topps Heritage #724
Jovani Moran- 2022 Topps Heritage #697
Jovani Moran- 2022 Topps #387
Joe Ryan- 2022 Topps #US222
Matt Wallner- 2023 Topps #448
The other package was from Guy P (gpuglia on SCN) who had a private signing with Mike Pagliarulo. I had a pair of full tickets from Game 3 of the 1991 ALCS and had him inscribe them with “Game Winning HR”. They turned out better than I expected with Mike’s long name on a skinny ticket. I was a bit nervous how it would look but they look awesome!
Category: Tickets
What The Eck? (Part II)
As previously mentioned, I had sent in a pair of tickets to the recent Chicago Sports Spectacular show through two different guys to have Dennis Eckersley sign them. Today I received the second one and, like the other, Eck signed it with “Back Door Slider”. Chris R (rifon on SCN) took care of this one for me. I absolutely love these tickets. It was a moment I remember well. It was my second month of my first year of college and most people on my dorm floor went out to party. It turned out that the cops showed up to a bunch of houses and broke up the parties and the kids all spilled into the streets. Who would have thought that a bunch of drunk kids would act reasonably when that happened? Turns out the kids started rioting… setting dumpsters on fire, flipping cars, and ripping out street signs. All this happened while I was in the dorm room watching Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and seeing Kirk Gibson do the improbable. Great memories of a heck of a moment in baseball history!
Yaz’s It
As the old story goes, when Carl Yastrzemski got his 3,000th hit, the Boston Red Sox sold a bunch of the ticket stubs that the team keeps when a person enters the ballpark. This audit stub part of a full ticket is plentiful. In fact, I have one unsigned as well as one signed with 3,000th Hit inscription. When the opportunity came up to purchase the OTHER half of the stub, the one that pictures Yaz on the ticket, I bought it. I recently sent it to Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) to be signed during his private signing with Yaz. Yaz no longer inscribes anything other than his triple crown year or Hall of Fame so getting a 3,000th hit inscription on it was not possible. I received it today and it was signed beautifully on the ticket. A great job by Tom and Carl!
What The Eck? (Part I)
A couple years ago I was fortunate enough to purchase a pair of tickets for Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. This was the game when Kirk Gibson hit his famous walk off home run and circled the bases on two really bad knees. I have a cool Story Ball signed by the Dodgers clubhouse manager on his recollection of that moment and later picked up the tickets. I was able to get Gibby to sign them fairly quickly after I received them but I wanted Dennis Eckersley to also sign them. As the story goes, the Dodgers’ scouting report on Eck was if he got two strikes on the batter he would throw a backdoor slider as that was his put-away pitch. Gibby knew this and when he got two strikes he looked for that pitch and clobbered it for his greatest moment in baseball. I kept looking for Eckersley to show up at a signing event as I really wanted an inscription on it. But, as luck would have it, he was a Fanatics exclusive in 2022 and they do not let their signers sign tickets. So I waited. Eck did not show up to any signings at the Hall of Fame induction weekend so I was thinking they might never get signed. Then my luck changed. Eck was signing at the Chicago Sports Spectacular. Since I had a pair of tickets, I figured I would send one to a pair of guys going to the show in case one had an issue or got lost in the mail or whatever. Today I received the ticket I sent to Donnie D (macey225 on SCN) and, as requested, Eck signed it with “Back Door Slider”. I love it! I cannot wait to get the other one soon as well! Stay tuned!