I have sent a few things to Bert Blyleven over the years since he started accepting mail items for signing along with a fee. You may recall I mentioned a Hall of Fame Induction Weekend press area ticket I acquired a little bit ago and got Pat Gillick on it. I sent it to Bert along with an original 1978 Focus on Sports card and received both signed beautifully today. Bert even included his typical post it note thanking me! Great stuff! Thanks Bert!
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Gordo
Wow! This is really cool! Today I received something that took me some time to come up with and I was not disappointed! John Gordon was the Twins Broadcaster for a number of years and I loved listening to him call the games. He was broadcasting when Kirby Puckett hit his Game 6 home run. I have a Call Ball signed by Gordo but I thought it would be really cool to have him write it on a 1991 Game 6 World Series ticket. I finally found one and sent it to him along with a heartfelt note about the moment and a few other things. John did not let me down! He signed his entire call on the ticket and included a real nice note back to me. It is one of my favorite items in my collection and one of my favorite moments in baseball history. Thanks a lot Gordo!
Ryno!
If you read my posts of late, you may remember I recently purchased some Hall of Fame Induction ceremony press tickets from a recently retired sports writer. Today’s mail brought in the 2005 ticket signed by Ryne Sandberg. I also sent a Hall of Fame postcard that Ryno signed. I couple cool items for the collection!
Gillick-ity Split!
I recently found a newly retired sports writer for various newspapers and he was selling some of his memorabilia from over the years. Some items that caught my eye were Hall of Fame induction tickets for seating in the Press area. These tickets were real nice with nice images and such and the writer got them stamped and cancelled at the Cooperstown Post Office during induction weekend. I purchased a couple tickets for the express reason of mailing them to the people on the ticket to have them signed. Today I received my first one back. Pat Gillick signed the 2011 ticket. It also features Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar so I will have to wait until Robbie is doing a signing. I hope to get Bert last and in person at Twinsfest and see his reaction to it since it is a real nice looking it.