Today I received a pair of 2020 Topps Heritage Twins cards signed by Mitch Garver and the other by Alex Avila.
I purchased the Avila from Chris Senn (who I purchased the Cron a week or so ago from) and the Garver came from Michael McCarthy. Both of these were via Facebook posts.
Category: Bought
Not Petty In The Least
Today I received a couple items that made me smile. The first was a baseball I bought from Doug Tracy from Authentic Autographs of Southwest Florida that was signed by Chase Petty. Chase included “2021 1st Rd Pick” on it too!
The other item was something I have been trying to track down for a while. Fred Manrique played a short time for the Twins. I had a single hole in my 1990 living player needs and with the 66T card showing up today, I am down to needing just Kirby Puckett to complete the Twins team set. PastPros met up with Manrique and got him to sign some cards and listed them for sale on their website. I was pretty excited when I saw this one listed for sale!
An Old Crony
I recently saw Chris Senn (Cali Graphz on Facebook) post some cards he got signed and noticed a couple I needed. I bought the 2020 Topps Heritage #349 CJ Cron card and received it today. I just bought his 2020 Topps Heritage Alex Avila and should be adding that to my collection in the next week or so. It is nice to knock off some of the cards I was unable to get signed due to COVID.
Sweet Music From Deano
I received a couple packages today. One from Frank “Sweet Music” Viola and one from Lezcano Dean (deano on SCN). I had send Viola a pair of Project 70 cards of his and asked him to draw in his face on one of the cards. Alas, he did not but he did sign both beautifully.
Deano was blowing out some items at great prices on SCN so I picked up a few magazines. Those I got are:
03.12.1973 Sports Illustrated Bill Melton (I had one but it was personalized to me)
11.2.2009 Sports Illustrated Ryan Howard (I had a couple of these but I think Howard is underrated so I added another)
April 1979 Baseball Quarterly Jim Rice
August 1979 Baseball Quarterly Larry Bowa (pictured with Pete Rose who I will get on it soon)
April 2012 ESPN HS Lucas Giolito and Max Fried. I had no idea ESPN made a magazine devoted to High School sports. And, to have these two stars on the cover is pretty neat. They both signed in icky green Sharpie but it looks ok and for the price I could not pass it up.