Today I received a magazine I sent to Dick Groat a week ago. I sent a silver paint pen along and hoped he would let it dry. Not only did Mr Groat return my donation, he also signed it with the paint pen and let it dry. It turned out perfectly! The magazine is a 1964 Baseball Guidebook and is has a real dark background and it exceeded my hopes!
Category: TTM
The White Rat!
Today’s mail brought a nice envelope with a pair of items from Whitey Herzog. For the longest time I have had a picture of Whitey and Tom Kelly shaking hands before Game 1 of the 1987 World Series already signed by TK and finally decided to mail it to Whitey along with a HOF Postcard. Both were signed beautifully in blue Sharpie.
He Gone!
Today I received a ball from Ken ‘Hawk’ Harrelson. Hawk is the White Sox broadcaster. I had requested his call of Tyler Flowers’ walk off in extra innings this season but all he wrote was “He Gone”
Another package I received was the final Michael Cuddyer card I needed for my collection. Last week I received a card of Cuddyer’s I sent in for a private signing but screwed up and sent in the wrong one. The person who had the private signing had the 2011 Allen & Ginter card for sale. It is in black so I may upgrade down the road but for now, I have all the Cuddyer cards I need.
Handy Andy
Today I received a pair of envelopes. One was a request I sent to former Twin Allan Anderson. I needed one more Anderson card to complete all my Topps Twins card needs and he took care of my real quick. I added the 1991 Topps card to my collection.
The envelope was a few cards I bought from Jim O (spark1989 on SCN). Those cards were the following:
1968 Twins Team signed by Jim Holt, Bruce Look and George Mitterwald
1970 Twins Team signed by Frank Kostro, Tom Tischinski, George Mitterwald and Stan Williams
1971 Twins Team signed by Jim Holt, Jim Perry and George Mitterwald
1971 Jim Kaat
1973 Jim Kaat
Both of the Kaats were upgrades to what I already had.