My buddy Greg N (justgreg on SCN) has been mentioned a few times in this blog. He came through for me again! Today I received a couple awesome signed items from when Luke Hughes visited the Tacoma Raniers. Greg got Luke on his ML Debut ticket when he hit a HR in his first at bat as well as on the 2011 Topps Heritage card already signed by Plouffe. AWESOME items! THANKS pal!
Category: Tickets
If You Send It, He Will Sign
Most of you who know me know that my all time most favorite movie is Field of Dreams. I have been fortunate enough to have played catch at the movie site in Dyersville, IA with Caden a couple times in the past. Great movie. I had sent a baseball to James Earl Jones (Terrence Mann in the movie) a while ago. He is always acting somewhere whether it is in a movie or in a Broadway play so he is hit or miss timing wise. Today I received the baseball signed with his name and an inscription of Terrence Mann and Field of Dreams. I had asked for the quote about baseball from the movie but he did not do that.
I also received a real nice package of items that I had sent to Kent B (doggle3 on SCN). In it was a bunch of items I sent to him back when the Twins were coming to KC. In all, he got me the following items signed:
Chris Parmelee 2 @ 1st HR tickets
Francisco Liriano 2006 Topps UH & 2012 Allen & Ginter
Alexi Casilla 2012 Topps Heritage
Lorenzo Cain SS OMLB
Salvado Perez Debut ticket
Mark Mustakas 1st HR ticket
Salvador Perez side panel OMLB
Jonathan Broxton side panel OMLB
He still has a pair of tickets for Eric Hosmer’s ML Debut and his 1st HR that he is still working on. Thanks Kent!
Bull-Dozier-ing Through The Mail!
Today was a fun mail day. A couple months ago I found out Brian Dozier was to be signing at the monthly Twin Cities Sports Collectors Club show. Caden had a baseball tournament that day so I asked Dave B (the president) if I could send in a few tickets and baseballs for it. He gladly accepted it and I was excited. Brian was unable to make it to the show on the day it was to happen but it got rescheduled for this month. As luck would have it, I had a wedding for Amy’s cousin in Sparta, WI on the day of the show so I let Dave keep the stuff to get it signed. Today the items arrived.
I got a pair of debut tickets and first home run tickets signed with inscriptions, a pair of baseballs and a couple cards signed and they all look fabulous! Dave did a great job and I am pleased.
A set of the tickets and cards are for my man Jon S in Rochester, NY who has hooked me up with more than I can repay him for. He and his son are HUGE Dozier fans so these will be real nice additions to their collections as well as to mine!
That is just the ticket!
Today I received a ticket that I sent in to Chriss P (bigpog on SCN) for a private signing for Carlos Santana. It was cool that it was the only way I figured I could get an inscription on the ticket. Chriss did a great job and I got it today with MLB Debut on it.
I also received the SI that I had sent to Bobby Doerr earlier and most recently Bill Monbouquette. Bill signed it perfectly and included a real nice note and a photo personalized to me. He said the donation I sent to him will go to the Jimmy Fund. It was another neat day of additions to the collection!