Category: Tickets

Sanoooo Doubt About It!

At one time Miguel Sano was one of the most feared hitters in baseball. He has since fallen off the map and is currently playing baseball in the Dominican Republic. Jackson T (of Big T Authentics and zagurski2016 on SCN) is pretty much the current go to guy for Dominican players’ autographs as he travels back and forth multiple times a year and has built up a nice stable of players he gets to sign. This was the first, and only so far, signing for Sano since he left the Twins and I had a bunch of cards I needed for my sets. So, I took all my non-Topps Now cards and a Triple Play ticket and shipped them to Jackson. The cards I sent and got signed are:
-2017 Topps Now already signed by Dozier & Mauer
-2020 Topps 412
-2020 Topps 424
-2021 Topps 383
-2021 Topps US248
-2022 Topps 123
-2020 Topps Heritage 441
-2021 Topps Heritage 456
-2022 Topps Heritage 384
-2020 Allen & Ginter 269
-2021 Gypsy Queen 216
-2022 Gypsy Queen 206
And the ticket was the Triple Play game from 06.01.2017 against the Angels. I had that signed by Brian Dozier and he inscribed Triple Play. You can see the ticket in the picture Jackson sent me of Sano signing.


I am really excited to knock off all my Sano collection needs except for my Topps Now. I have to wait for another signing as this one was not cheap!

Pags

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!

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!