Category: Baseballs

GREAT mail day!

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!

Bull-Dozier-ing Through The Mail!

Today was a fun mail day.  A couple months ago I found out Brian Dozier was to be signing at the monthly Twin Cities Sports Collectors Club show.  Caden had a baseball tournament that day so I asked Dave B (the president) if I could send in a few tickets and baseballs for it.  He gladly accepted it and I was excited.  Brian was unable to make it to the show on the day it was to happen but it got rescheduled for this month.  As luck would have it, I had a wedding for Amy’s cousin in Sparta, WI on the day of the show so I let Dave keep the stuff to get it signed.  Today the items arrived.

I got a pair of debut tickets and first home run tickets signed with inscriptions, a pair of baseballs and a couple cards signed and they all look fabulous!  Dave did a great job and I am pleased.

A set of the tickets and cards are for my man Jon S in Rochester, NY who has hooked me up with more than I can repay him for.  He and his son are HUGE Dozier fans so these will be real nice additions to their collections as well as to mine!

“Glad” to finally arrive!

Today I received one of my regular baseball boxes I send out with my writing on it and a note with 15 cents postage due.  I gladly paid the postage due and wondered who took so long to return a package.  Back on 2/20/2007 I sent two baseballs and $20 to Dan Gladden via the Metrodome.  I had not heard anything so I thought they were long gone.  I had asked him to write a story about Game 6 and his perspective of Puckett’s catch and home run and the other with Game 7 and what it was like scoring the winning run for the 1991 World Series.  While I did not get exactly what I requested, I did get one signed on the sweetspot with his name and number and the other was signed the same way and had a note on the bottom panel that said “To Kevin, Sorry it took so long!!  Best wishes”.  Unique that is for sure.  Oh, and if you are counting, that was exactly 2002 days from send to receipt.  By far my longest wait!

Old Times…

Today I went to the Twins game with an old friend of mine.  I met Dan K back in college when he was the president of the fraternity and I was the treasurer.  We had a lot of good times back then.  We both graduated on the same day and went our own directions.  A couple months ago I spotted him on LinkedIn and sent him a message.  Turns out he was back in MN after moving around the country.  Since Caden had baseball just about every weekend until recently, we were unable to get together until today.  Back in college, on a Wednesday night and on a whim, I skipped night class and Dan and I headed to the Twins game.  Afterwards we went out by where the players went to their cars and waited.  As luck would have it, Dave Winfield stopped and signed a baseball for each of us.  Fast forward a couple years ago and I donated mine for a fundraiser.  Well, today Dan decided I would appreciate his more than him so he gave it to me.  Man, we had fun on that Wednesday night as well as today.  Good times.