Category: TTM

Today’s mail brought a really cool baseball.  I was watching MLB tv a couple weeks ago and they had on some great Divisional Series games from the past and one of them was from Game 4 of the 2003 NLDS.  They played the audio of Dave O’Brien calling the game and the exciting finish when a collision between Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez and JT Snow at home plate ended the game.  Pudge hung on to the ball after getting hammered by Snow.  It was a great ending.  Not only did Mr O’Brien write his call on the ball but also returned my donation to him and wrote a note thanking me for “bringing back one amazing memory”.  Not too many times the signer is as happy as the recipient but this might just be the case here!  THANK YOU Dave!

About a month ago I received a baseball from Eric Nadel where he wrote his call of Jurickson Profar’s first career walk off home run.  In my note to him, I asked if he would be willing to do a call ball of Nolan Ryan’s 5,000th career strikeout and he said yes.  I immediately mailed a baseball and donation to him and today I received it back signed perfectly!  He wrote his call from 8/22/1989 when Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan struck out Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson for #5,000!  Thank you Eric!

Five days ago I sent a baseball to Eric Nadel and I received it today in a record turnaround.  Not only did I get it to and from Texas, it was signed really, really cool.  You may remember my call ball of Bryce Harper’s first career walk off home run.  On 9/26, Jurickson Profar hit his first career walk off.  I thought Profar’s call would be really cool to go with Harper’s so I sent a ball off to the Ranger’s broadcaster.  He inscribed it with his call.  If that was not cool enough, I asked him about sending another baseball for his call of another memorable baseball event and he said he would sign it for me.  You will have to wait to find out that historic call…