I have sent a few things to Bert Blyleven over the years since he started accepting mail items for signing along with a fee. You may recall I mentioned a Hall of Fame Induction Weekend press area ticket I acquired a little bit ago and got Pat Gillick on it. I sent it to Bert along with an original 1978 Focus on Sports card and received both signed beautifully today. Bert even included his typical post it note thanking me! Great stuff! Thanks Bert!
Category: Tickets
Gordo
Wow! This is really cool! Today I received something that took me some time to come up with and I was not disappointed! John Gordon was the Twins Broadcaster for a number of years and I loved listening to him call the games. He was broadcasting when Kirby Puckett hit his Game 6 home run. I have a Call Ball signed by Gordo but I thought it would be really cool to have him write it on a 1991 Game 6 World Series ticket. I finally found one and sent it to him along with a heartfelt note about the moment and a few other things. John did not let me down! He signed his entire call on the ticket and included a real nice note back to me. It is one of my favorite items in my collection and one of my favorite moments in baseball history. Thanks a lot Gordo!
Sitting on the (Pad)dack of the Bay
On April 5th, I purchased a signed Chris Paddack ML Debut signed ticket from Gabriel Magana. Two days later Chris was traded to the Twins! The following day I cheered for him during the player introductions when he was announced. Today the ticket arrived! Pretty fun little item for the collection!
Ryno!
If you read my posts of late, you may remember I recently purchased some Hall of Fame Induction ceremony press tickets from a recently retired sports writer. Today’s mail brought in the 2005 ticket signed by Ryne Sandberg. I also sent a Hall of Fame postcard that Ryno signed. I couple cool items for the collection!