Tickets – Page 23 – Graphin’ With Kevin

‘Nother Cub

I am getting to the point where my 2016 Cubs Champion Sports Illustrated will be next to impossible to add any more autographs to it. Not because of space but because of the availability of the other signers. I think the only one left that is reasonably easy to obtain will be Pedro Strop (poor guy has the barcode over half his picture) but for now, I just added Addison Russell to it.

Jeremy F (jeremymichael on SCN) had a signing with Russell and I sent it in along with a debut ticket. Both were signed perfectly and the ticket also included MLB Debut.

Addison Russell signing a Sports Illustrated

Cardinals Winter Warmup

I received a couple of real fun tickets that Derrick B (dlbiri1s on SCN) got signed for me at the Cardinals Winter Warmup. The Pirates are one of the few teams who will print and send you tickets purchased via their ticket phone line. When I heard Nolan Gorman and Matthew Liberatore were making their Major League Debuts this summer, I called and ordered tickets to each game. Today I received a pair of each signed. Derrick got both to add MLB Debut on each as well. They look great and are great additions to my collection!

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.