Today I received a couple cards for my Twins set. Every first of the month I check Brian F (abcunlimited.net)’s update to see if he added any new Twins cards I might need. The update for January included a 1962 Topps Bob Allison #180 that I needed. I contacted Brian to acquire it and he reminded me that I had a credit from a small website fix I did for him a while ago so I ended up with the Allison and a 1982 Twins Future Stars #766 card signed by Lenny Faedo for my collection! The cards are perfect and I hope to get Hrbek and Laudner to finish the 1982 card at Twinsfest in a couple weeks!
Category: Topps Twins Project
Sir Rodney
Today I received a pair of Topps Now cards signed by Rod Carew via a private signing with Tom O (orr23mj on SCN). They turned out great but poor Rod’s autograph is not nearly as strong as it once was. I am glad he is able to sign though. These are awesome additions to my collection!
My Pal Vinnie
Today I received my package with the second half of the season’s items Vinnie M (vinniemiller on SCN) got signed for me. It is like Christmas Day each time I get a package from Vinnie. Today’s box contained:
John Gibbons- 10.12.2015 Sports Illustrated
Fernando Rodney- Topps Now Road to Opening Day OD-144, 2018 Allen & Ginter 209
Hector Santiago- 2017 Topps Heritage #571
Aaron Hicks- 1st HR Ticket
Andrew Romine- 2 @ All 9 Positions Tickets w/”#All9Romine”
Jonathan Loaisiga- ML Debut ticket
Nolan Arenado- ML Debut ticket
Trevor Story- ML Debut ticket
Gary Sanchez- ML Debut ticket
Devon Travis- ML Debut ticket
Vinnie still is mailing me one more item he got and I will update that when I get it. Vinnie did a fantastic job this season for me and aided me in adding many cool items to my collection. Thanks Vinnie! I cannot wait until next season!
New Kid on the Blauch
Today I went to a local card show to get some autographs of Chuck Knoblauch and one of Junior Ortiz. I needed three cards for my Knoblauch Topps Twins card run and had sent these in to a number of shows just to find out Chuck never showed or whatever. I was very skeptical if he would show up today but gave it a shot anyway. I was not disappointed!
I was able to get Chuck to sign the following:
1994 Topps #555
1995 Topps # 250
1998 Topps #309
11.04.1991 Sports Illustrated
I also got Junior Ortiz to sign the same SI.
Chuck was very personable which was really cool. The person before me had his Upper Deck rookie card to get signed and Chuck looked at it and told him that the picture on the card was taken when he was in Double A “with those old ironed on logo uniforms!” Pretty neat he remembered that. After signing my items he shook my hand and thanked me.
I also got a card signed for a friend of my buddy Joel who said it was one of the last few he needed to complete his set. I was happy to help.
Before I left, I stopped by Denny McLain’s booth. I bought a ball he had signed with stats and a story of when he gave up a 480′ home run to Mickey Mantle as well as a story of his first start and home run. It is a pretty neat baseball and he graciously stopped to have a photo with me. He was real
nice too!
I may go back tomorrow for Tony Oliva’s appearance. Stay tuned!