Today a Hall of Famer showed up in the mailbox. I had sent a July 1986 Baseball Digest along with a ticket from 07.16.2011 to Bert Blyleven just before the World Baseball Classic knowing it would take a while to come back to me. Bert was a coach with the Netherlands team so he was in Japan for a while. Today I received the ticket with “#28 Retired” as requested as well as the Baseball Digest signed beautifully!
Category: Tickets
Twins Spring Part I
I had two guys chase autographs for me in Florida for spring training this spring. Both guys did an amazing job for me! I received the first package today. Robbie L (robbielee on SCN) got the smaller group of the two but had great success getting everything I needed from Royce Lewis signed plus a few others! The items I added to my collection from Robbie’s work are:
Joe Ryan ticket with “First Win”
Ryan LaMarre ticket with “MLB Debut”
Royce Lewis MLB Debut ticket which he inscribed “5/6/22” (which is also the date on the ticket
Luis Arraez 2022 Topps #543
Royce Lewis 10/12/2019 Bowman Next #10
Royce Lewis 10/16/2019 Bowman Next #11
Royce Lewis 10/26/2019 Bowman Next #13
Royce Lewis 2020 Bowman Next #BA69
Royce Lewis 5/6/2022 Topps Now #136
Royce Lewis 5/13/2022 Topps Now #173
Robbie did a fantastic job!
Sam!
The MN Gophers baseball team sponsored the Cambria Classic the first weekend of March at US Bank Stadium. My son’s buddy pitched in one and my buddy’s son pitched in another game that weekend. I attended both and bought a ticket (something rare these days! A printed ticket!) and took a bunch of photos of the two players for their families. I mailed the ticket from my buddy’s son’s start to my buddy along with a dvd of the pictures I took and today I received that ticket signed by Sam Malec! Pretty cool item to add to the collection! I wish Sam and the entire Gophers team much success this season!
Lefty
Today was a fun day of mail from a Hall of Famer. I recently acquired a set of tickets from Steve Carlton’s final MLB win. It just so happened that he was with the Twins and it was at the Metrodome. I decided to send one of those tickets as well as a HOF Postcard (I cannot believe I did not have one already in the collection!) and received them back today. Lefty signed the ticket with “Final MLB Win #329” on the ticket and the postcard in the typical area at the top of the postcard. I am very pleased with how both turned out!