Category: Tickets

A Rootin’ Tudorin’ Time

A long while ago a great friend of mine gave me, and continues to give me, his ticket stubs from baseball games he attends. In the group of tickets there was a run of the three games the Twins played in St Louis in the 1987 World Series (that the Twins WON!). I had Game 4 and Game 5 signed but not Game 3. It was a glaring hole in the seven game set of signed tickets. I was looking over Past Pros website and found that John Tudor signed via their process and knew I had to send the ticket to him. Today I received it signed by John with “Winning Pitcher” on it. I am excited to say that I now have all seven tickets of the 1987 World Series signed by a player who played an important or meaningful role in the game! The post office did beat the ticket up a little when it appears to have gotten jammed in the sorting machines but it is fine for me and my collection.

Frankie

I often think how the Twins postseason would have gone had Francisco Liriano not gotten injured in 2006. We had Justin Morneau winning the AL MVP and Johan Santana winning the AL Cy Young award and the 1-2 punch of Johan and Frankie was probably the best in baseball. Alas, Frankie had to be shut down and eventually had Tommy John Surgery and the Twins got swept by the A’s in the divisional round.
Today, however, I was able to add a couple items to my collection signed by Liriano. The first was a Topps Now Turn Back The Clock card from when he threw his no hitter. The other was a pair of tickets from his ML Debut. Ryan S (rls2239 on SCN) held a private signing and got these items signed for me.

A “Cheeky” Mail Day!

Wow! What a fun day of mail today! I received FIVE packages of mail that contained autographed items! Where do I start?
The first envelope I opened was from my buddy Steve C (last name pronounced Cheek thus the title of this post). He had sent me a baseball card of himself from when he was a kid and I sent it to him asking him to sign it. I included a little that I sent out to the ballplayers and got it back signed today. I half expected a price sheet for future autographs. LOL. Thanks bud!
The next envelope was from Vinnie M (vinniemiller on SCN) who had posted some cards for sale on a Facebook group. Vinnie provided me two 2021 Topps Heritage cards signed by Jose Berrios, the regular and In Action. Great job as always Vinnie!
Next was an envelope that I had sent to The Philly Show a while ago that had a ticket from Kyle Schwarber’s debut. He signed it nicely with MLB Debut and I paid for JSA Witness sticker.
Then, Brooks Robinson returned my Baseball Digest from July 1974 signed beautifully with HOF 1983. Looks awesome!
Lastly, I received my box of goodies from Redsfest that I had sent to Tony R (trogers on SCN). In it was a beautifully signed Elly De La Cruz baseball and a Spencer Steer ticket with MLB Debut inscribed. Tony even included some Reds schedules for me! I love it!
What a great day of mail today! It was a blast opening it all!