Today I received a May, 1961 Sport magazine signed by Dick Groat. Dick was the 1960 NL MVP and has been very kind to me in the past. He did not let me down this time either! He signed it, as he typically does, with “Best Regards” and “1960 N.L. MVP”. He is a great signer for his fans!
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Jim Dandy!
Today I received a neat baseball I had sent to Jim Marshall. Jim is not someone a typical baseball fan thinks of or even heard of in most cases. I happened to be watching MLB’s 2015 Legends In Scouting where they honored a few baseball scouts. I was so impressed with Mr Marshall’s resume that I knew I had to send him a baseball and ask him to write his “stats” on it. Mr Marshall was introduced as “an original Met. He played for Casey Stengel, worked for PK Wrigley, Managed for Charles O’Finley and was the first Major League player to play in Japan”. That is quite the resume spanning a number of decades! I sent him a baseball requesting all that on a baseball and received it back with:
His name and “2015 Legends In Scouting” on the sweetspot.
“Original Met 1962”
“Played for Casey Stengel”
“1st ML player to Play in Japan Chunichi Dragons 1963”
“Managed for Charlie O’Finley Oakland A’s 1979”
“Managed for P.K. Wrigley Chicago Cubs 1974-1976”
He even wrapped the baseball box up in tissue paper when he sent it back to me and included his business card and even returned my donation. What an awesome baseball! It certainly tells a story of an amazing person and their life devoted to baseball!
A Peanut Farmer’s Bell
Today I received a pair of items with one being baseball related.
The first package contained a Chris Colabello cowbell that was given away at a Twins game early last year. I sent it to Lou R (signatures on SCN) and he got it signed during Spring Training. He also got a bunch of other stuff for me that he is sending.
The other package was a pair of books I bought at Half Price Books that were written by Jimmy Carter. I thought it would be neat to have a couple president autographs in the collection so I thought I would try him. I received them both back with a signed bookplate affixed inside each one.
Lanny’s The Man(ny)!
Today I received part one of what will be a two part package from Lanny Frattare. A couple weeks ago I read where you could buy a signed scorecard from the long time Pirates radio announcer and I checked out what was available and bought a few. One was the 5,000th game Lanny broadcast for the Pirates. I asked Lanny’s son David, who is helping his father sell them, to have Lanny add an inscription of 5,000th Game or something like that. While communicating with David, I asked if Lanny would be willing to sign a baseball with a couple of his sayings and he said to send the ball to him. Today I received the ball and a nice note from Lanny. I am pretty excited about this one. I cannot wait to receive the scorecards! Watch for that post in the upcoming days!