After spending three days in New York City I came home to a lot of fun mail! I don’t get many bills by mail anymore as they are mostly electronically delivered so most of the mail I get is fun stuff. Going through my items I was really pleased with how everything turned out. The mail included:
03.05.2001 Nomar Garciaparra Sports Illustrated
Baseball signed by Nomar along with “1997 AL ROY”
08.25.1980 Al Bumbry Sports Illustrated (already signed by Fred Stanley)
1992 World Series Game 4 ticket stub signed by Tom Henke with “5th Postseason Save”
Baseball signed by Len Kasper with “Field of Dreams Game Tim Anderson Walkoff 8/12/2021”. I had requested Len to write his walkoff call but just got this.
I love mail days like this! 🙂
Category: Tickets
Skee-daddle
Today was the reunion of the 1991 World Champion Twins team at Target Field. They had a really cool pregame event with all the players who came back for it. While reading about the event a few days ago, I found that the guest DJ would be DJSkee. I do not know much about the deejay scene but I did recognize the name as he was the person who designed the Byron Buxton Topps Project 70 card of which I had a pair of. I thought I would prep one and bring it along to the game just in case I went by there and he was available to sign it. He did not let me down. Before the game he was deejaying in the Plaza and I waited until he had a moment. When he looked up and showed him the card and mimicked him signing and he waved me to the booth. He was really neat! He asked my name and signed the card “Thx 4 the love!” I thanked him and he gestured appreciation of me (!) and I went on my way. I was surprised at what a cool experience it was! My night got off to a great start and the Twins clobbered the Rays to finish it! Cami and I had a blast!
When I got home I found that I received a ticket I had sent in for a Jason Bartlett signing. Seton Younggren had a private signing event and I had a second ticket for the game Jason hit his first home run so I sent it in. Jason and Seton did not disappoint! Seton even went so far as to send me a photo of Jason signing my ticket! It looks great and I am excited to have it in the collection!
Free Willy!
Today I received a pair of ML Debut tickets signed by Willy Adames now of the Brewers. Waukesha Sportscards had Adames in for a signing event so I mailed my tickets in. Both are signed with “MLB Debut” and have JSA Witness holograms on the back.
A Fan of FanHQ
Shaun and his crew at FanHQ do an amazing job for customers. Today I received my package of items I sent in for the Luis Arraez and Nelson Cruz signing events. They took my original package and used that for additional packaging to ensure my items arrive as perfect as possible. Plus, the items were signed perfectly! The Cruz item I got signed was the Sports Illustrated magazine from 10.24.2011. For Arraez, I got a ticket from 07.22.2019 signed with “Triple Play” and a bunch of cards. The cards are:
2020 Topps 612
2020 Allen & Ginter 240
2020 Gypsy Queen 203
2020 Topps Heritage 293
2021 Topps Heritage 322
Topps Now 2020 Opening Day OD-143
Topps Now 2021 Opening Day OD-132
Topps Now 2020 Postseason PS-45
Topps Now 07.22.2019 (Triple play card related to ticket)
I was pretty pumped when I saw these items!