Category: Topps Twins Project

Justin Time!

Today’s mail brought a really exciting package.  One of my most favorite Twins players of all time was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates at the trade deadline this past season.  I have collected Justin Morneau home run tickets and have a real nice run going.  When he was traded I was bummed out.  I had 19 Morneau cards I needed signed for my Twins card sets and thought with him being traded, there was no way I would get them signed. Recently it was announced that he would continue his Winter Warm Up Coat Drive collecting coats for needy people in Minnesota even though he was no longer a Twin. This was a real classy move by Justin.  I contacted Shaun H (33forMVP on Pat Neshek’s site and the owner of Fan HQ) who was helping with the Coat Drive and asked if I sent a sizable donation for coats if Justin would sign the remaining cards I needed for my collection.  Mad props to Shaun and Justin for making this happen.  Today I received the cards and they are all signed beautifully.
The cards I received today were:
2006 Topps UH204 – RBI League Leaders
2006 Topps UH313 – Team Leaders w/Santana
2008 Topps 110
2008 Topps 287 – w/Mauer & Santana
2009 Topps 90
2009 Topps 176 – RBI Leaders
2009 Topps UH265 – All Star
2010 Topps 360
2011 Topps 293
2012 Topps 230
2013 Topps 575
2011 Allen & Ginter 305
2013 Allen & Ginter 324
2010 Topps Heritage 420
2012 Topps Heritage 269
2013 Topps Heritage 274
2011 Gypsy Queen 72
2012 Gypsy Queen 119
2013 Gypsy Queen 201
You hear about win-win deals all the time in life but this truly was a win-win.  I got my cards signed and many less fortunate people got new coats (just in time) for the cold winter.

If you are at the Ridgedale Mall shopping this Christmas season, be sure to stop by Fan HQ!

I cannot thank Shaun and Justin enough!  Thanks guys!

The Puck Stops Here

Today I received a 1991 Topps Kirby Puckett signed card.  I bought it from John I (playrzink on SCN).  It is signed in blue ink and is PSA certified.  I probably over paid for it but for some reason, I thought it looked cool being in ink rather than the typical Sharpie.  Either way, with adding that one to the collection, I need only two more cards to complete my signed Twins 1991 set (Allan Anderson and Tim Drummond).

The Exceptional Mr Elliott!

I always love a mail day after a holiday.  I get two days worth of mail.  Even better is when the holiday is a Monday as yesterday was.  Today’s mail day fit the bill!

Back in August I emailed Mr Bob Elliott asking him if he would be willing to autograph a baseball along with “2012 J G Taylor Spink Award” and if he had a charity of choice.  He replied he would be delighted to and his donations go to the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation.  I mailed it off and received it today.  We have emailed a couple times in the meantime and I found him to be very receptive and kind.  In fact, in one reply he told me that he had signed 100’s of baseballs and my package was the most organized of all.  I am guessing it was because I provided an envelope already addressed to the charity with all it needing was postage from Canada.  I included cash for return postage as well as the postage to mail the donation and he returned it and paid the postage himself.  I am very excited to add Mr Elliott’s autograph to my collection and to have the interaction I had with him.  Thank you Mr Elliott!

Also in today’s mail was an envelope with two autographed cards I bought from Mickey’s Sports Cards.  They both had real nice blue ink signatures on them.  They were a 1968 Bob Allison and a 1967 Zoilo Versalles.