Today I received a baseball from Brian Anderson. Brian is a broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers but he also works for TBS in the post season. I sent it at the end of the season after hearing the audio of his call on the MLB channel on XM Radio and thought it would make a neat call ball. Turns out Brian ended up doing the post season again this year and I thought I would not see the baseball until after Spring Training next year.
Today the baseball showed up and was signed perfectly! He also included a Brewers broadcaster photo card signed and wrote a nice note thanking me for the donation but returned it to me so I could donate it to a charity of my choice this holiday season. I think the Salvation Army will get it in the next red bucket I see. I love these call balls and the memories they really bring back!
Category: Baseballs
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.
What a Steal!
Today’s mail brought just one package. It was a return from a baseball I mailed nearly three years ago. It was worth the wait!
In game four of the 2004 ALCS against the Yankees, the Red Sox were down to their final out and were down three games to none in the best of seven series. Kevin Millar walked to lead off the bottom of the 9th and Dave Roberts pinch ran for him. Roberts stole second base and ended up scoring the tying run and the Red Sox went on their improbable run to win the World Series.
Dave Roberts signed my baseball and wrote what he remembered about the steal on it. It is a pretty neat story ball for the collection.
Another Nice Mail Day!
Today I received three packages from various people with autographed items in them. One was a box full of baseballs gotten for me at the Arizona Fall League, one was a World Series ticket, and the other a couple photos I traded for.
The baseballs came from Christian B (hheroes10 on SCN) who has gotten me autographs from Arizona Spring Training and Fall League over the past number of years. This group contained:
Jesse Winker
Hunter Dozier
Anthony DeSclafani
Eddie Rosario
DJ Peterson
They were all signed perfectly in blue on the sweetspot just how I like ’em!
A couple weeks I saw where Dan C (scfdff on SCN) was going to a signing with Jim Kaat in New York and was offering to take items. I had a Game 2 of the 1965 World Series ticket I had been wanting to get signed by Jim for a while. I sent it to Dan asking if he would ask Jim if he would write “Complete Game Winner” on the ticket too. Dan emailed me right after the signing and said Jim’s agent was saying no inscriptions but he asked and Jim told him it was such a unique item he would inscribe it. Today I got the ticket and COULD NOT be happier! It turned out AWESOME!
The other package was a tube with a pair of photos. Bryan W (bryanwood on SCN) contacted me about an NFL Duke football I posted on SCN a long time ago for trade. He was going to see someone a couple days later and wanted it for the signing. Since I bought the ball in hopes of having Brett Favre sign it when he was a Viking and it never happened, it was just gathering dust so I looked over his trade items and picked out a couple cool signed pictures. The first picture is an 8×10 of the fight between George Brett and Graig Nettles in the 1977 ALCS signed by both of those guys. I showed it to Caden and we watched the video of it and he wanted that photo so I got that one. The other one I received is a really cool 11×14 of Phil Niekro on the mound in mid-windup about to throw a knuckleball while playing for the Yankees. What makes this photo so cool is there are five inscriptions on the photo all signed in perfect silver paint pen. Cami saw that picture and said she wanted that one.
All in all it was a really nice mail day!