Jim Perry won the 1970 AL Cy Young award while pitching for the Twins. I sent him a 1971 Topps Super card to sign. Today I received it. He signed it real nice but forgot the zero in his “1970 Cy Young” inscription. Oh well. Close enough!
Category: Topps Twins Project
Twins and a HOFer!
I love mail on Mondays! There is usually extra mail that arrives due to the mail moving on the weekend. Today I received a pair of packages. The first was from Pat Gillick who signed my 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame yearbook. The second was from Mike E who lives in Iowa and was able to get me a bunch of Twins stuff signed when the St Paul Saints played the Iowa Cubs. Mike got me:
Zebby Matthews game used baseball from his debut game with the date
Zebby Matthews 2025 Topps Heritage #309
David Festa 2025 Topps #178
David Festa 2025 Topps Heritage #249
David Festa 2025 Topps Now Opening Day #OD-89
Edouard Julien 2025 Topps Now Opening Day #OD-82
Kenta Maeda 2023 Topps #US97
Jose Miranda 2025 Topps Heritage #4
Jose Miranda Topps Living Legends #564
Jose Miranda Topps Now 7.4.2024 #376
Jose Miranda Topps Now 7.6.2024 #389
Jose Miranda Topps Now 4.7.2023 #68 (already signed by Kyle Farmer)
A great day of mail!
Twins Minors
I found Mike E in a Facebook group around January this year when he offered a card for sale I needed. Since then we communicated a little via Messenger and he helped acquire Twins AAA autographs when the Saints visited Iowa. He has another batch now for next week when the Saints revisit Iowa. He does a great job on autographs for my collection. Today’s batch included:
Zebby Matthews ticket w/”MLB Debut!”, 2025 Topps #283
Randy Dobnak ticket w/”1st MLB Win!”
Jair Camargo ticket w/”MLB Debut”, 2024 Topps Heritage #633
Austin Martin 2024 Topps Heritage #649
I am really excited to add these to my collection and to see how successful Mike is with the next batch! Thanks a lot Mike!
Hey Bert!
Every day is a great day to receive a Hall of Famer’s autograph but today was especially great because of the quantity of items from Bert Blyleven. It took just seven days to get back the following items signed exactly as requested by Bert:
07.16.2011 Twins Ticket w/”#28 Retired”
1973/1974/1976/1986 Topps Wendy’s cards
2011 Baseball Hall of Fame Yearbook w/”HOF 2011″
I am so excited on each of these!
I also received the June, 1988 Baseball Digest that I just got back signed by Bret Saberhagen now signed by Mark Gubicza. He returned my donation and included his full signature instead of his typical “G”.
Lastly, Ryan S (Rls2239 on SCN) had a private signing with Jake Odorizzi. I sent in the last cards I needed signed by Jake to complete all the Twins cards I needed. I received:
2019 Topps #63
2020 Topps #409
05.10.2019 Topps Now #210
2020 Topps New Road To Opening Day #OD-146
Great day!