After a little nervousness on when this baseball would show up, it arrived today. Today is MLK Jr Day and there is no mail but our delivery person brought my signature confirmation package and I could not be more relieved or excited about it! As previously mentioned, I sent a ticket and baseball to the Nolan Ryan Foundation and the ticket showed up a few days ago but the baseball had yet to arrive. The ball is a 300 Win baseball. Nolan was the last living person I needed on the ball. He is the eleventh person to sign it and each person wrote their career win total. It is a pretty special baseball as I do not believe there will be another 300 win pitcher in a long time if ever. The game has changed so much with pitch counts, analytics (don’t go through the order a third time!) and five man rotations that I do not see another player being added to this baseball. It, just like my ticket, was signed beautifully. As I stated in my other post, the Nolan Ryan Foundation does an amazing job on autographs! I could not be happier!
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Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
I received a pair of autographs from Rollie Fingers today. A while ago I purchased a dozen or so different hand painted stamped and cancelled cachet envelopes with baseball players on them. They are painted in water color and look really neat. While I have a few from years ago in my collection, they are mostly Twins and not something that I specifically collect. But, when I got a nice price on these and they looked cool I grabbed the ones I figured I could get signed. Rollie signed his cachet as well as a Baseball Digest from March, 1982. Pretty cool to get a couple Hall of Famer autographs!
The Express Part I
I sent a pair of items to the Nolan Ryan Foundation to be signed around Thanksgiving. I remember sending items to be signed by Nolan shortly after his induction into the Hall of Fame. His foundation does an amazing job with the autographs whether it is quality or communication.
I mailed the two items in two packages to decrease the likelihood I would lose both if something happened to either one and today I received the first package. Nolan signed his name and “324 Win” on a ticket from the August, 15, 1993 game in Cleveland when he picked up his 624th and final win of his career. The Foundation placed a hologram on the back, as requested, and the ticket is awesome! I expect to received the other really cool package soon!
Molly
Paul Molitor was a favorite player of mine years ago. Not at the Puckett or Mauer level but I admired his game and loved listening to him talk baseball. I tracked down a nice pair of Baseball Digest magazines that he was on and had a Hall of Fame induction ticket already signed by Dennis Eckersley that was sitting around waiting to be signed so I sent them off along with a real nice donation. I received all three items back signed perfectly today and am very excited to have these in my collection!