Today we returned from a quick family vacation to Rapid City, SD and the baseball mail was awesome!
First, I mailed a request to Wade Boggs to sign a baseball and HOF postcard. Since I recently mailed to him for two Sports Illustrated magazines, I asked my father-in-law if he minded if I sent one in his name. It showed up to his house while we were gone. I sent $25 cash this time for the donation to the hospital. I received a real nice baseball with HOF 05 and HOF postcard also with HOF 05.
Then I opened the mail and found that Carlton Fisk had signed both of my Sports Illustrated magazines I had sent to him before leaving. That included an $80 donation to “The Cancer Support Center”.
Also in the mail today was a Ryan Zimmerman card that was from the 2007 Topps set. I traded with Eric H (toastwrpi on SCN) and got it while I was gone.
Finally, my favorite package… I have mentioned my friend Jon S (tjsportcards on Pat Neshek’s site) on here before. Most recently that I got some Brian Dozier items signed for him as he is a huge Dozier fan. Well, while I was gone Jon sent me a REAL nice package of Twins items signed while in Rochester. Jon has season tickets to the Red Wings and does a ton of autographing there. In the package was the following awesome items:
Tsuyoshi Nishioka postcard
Tsuyoshi Nishioka eTopps card (can’t be too many of these out there outside of Jon’s and mine!)
Tsuyoshi Nishioka 2012 Allen & Ginter
Danny Valencia 2011 Allen & Ginter
Liam Hendriks 2012 Allen & Ginter
Chris Parmelee 2012 Topps (upgrade to the one I have)
Chris Parmelee 2012 Allen & Ginter
Chris Parmelee 2012 Topps Heritage
Jon has taken great care of me with my Rochester needs. I hope to even the score someday! THANKS JON!
