Over that last half dozen years, or more, I have been purchasing scorecards from Lanny Frattare’s collection. Lanny was the Pirates KDKA radio broadcaster from 1976-2008 and at retirement put his entire collection of scorecards up for sale. His son David handles all the sales. All scorecards are signed by Lanny and I really like getting them signed by the person who made the event special. Today’s scorecards are:
05.03.1977 at Braves – Phil Niekro 11 IP CG Loss, 9Ks, 8ER, 12H
08.23.1985 vs Astros – Nolan Ryan 8 IP, 6K
06.17.2006 vs Twins – Joe Mauer 1-3, 2B – Joe Nathan 98th Career Save
08.17.2008 vs Mets- Johan Santana complete game shutout- 7Ks 3H
09.24.2008 at Brewers – CC Sabathia W 7 IP, 4H, 1R, 11K – Eric Gagne Final Career Hold #12
09.25.2008 at Brewers – Eric Gagne Final MLB Game & K, 718th Career K
Category: Bought
Pablo Day!
FanHQ recently had a signing with Twins pitcher Pablo Lopez. I noticed I never had gotten him on a baseball! I only got him on baseball cards at Twinsfest. I prepaid for a signed baseball and it showed up today. I gotta say, Shaun H and his crew at FanHQ do an awesome job with all their signings. He truly is a collectors friend!
A Whole Lotta Tickets!
I rarely trade my items much less sell them but when Jake Cave signed with the Phillies, Emily P (part of the Facebook ticket collecting group) reached out and asked if I had a ticket for Jake’s debut. I only had one and it was signed already. Since Jake was one of my son’s most favorite players, I had a really hard time moving it but she acquired it from me. Fast forward to recently when Jake was released by the Phillies and Emily made the ticket part of a lot of a huge pile of tickets for sale. I jumped at the chance to bring that ticket back home. Included with it were signed debut tickets for:
JT Chargois
Brandon Kintzler
Jurickson Profar
Christian Bethancourt
Vince Velasquez
Francisco Mejia
Michael Kopech
Adam Haseley
Bailey Falter
Logan Gilbert
There were about another 50-60 unsigned debut tickets that will keep me busy too! It was a fun lot of tickets to go through!
What’s The Wether(holt)?
The person who runs SportsGraphing.com, Alan Moore, recently had a signing with the projected #1 player pick in the 2024 baseball draft, JJ Wetherholt. I bought a baseball from that signing and it arrived today. Nice fully signature with middle name!