Adventures in Autograph Collecting
Today I received a pair of items. The first was a Time Magazine signed by Keith Foulke that I sent into a signing with Doug Keating of CardboardPromotions.com. He had Keith sign it perfectly.
My other item was a 2015 Topps Chris Parmelee card signed perfectly in blue. I got this card from Kevin H (justcrazy on SCN).
All in all a real nice day of mail!
Today I got a Sports Illustrated I bought from Vinnie M (vinniemiller on SCN) who lives in the Seattle area. I had just sent him a box of items to get signed from the visiting teams to Seattle and today the SI arrived. It is signed by both Robinson Cano and Felix Hernandez. It is one of the versions from this season’s baseball preview issues. It looks great! Thanks Vinnie!
Today was a fun mail day! I received three packages today of a couple items I bought and a nice surprise from a Twin!
The first package was the ticket from Luis Severino that I bought from Dustin K (bigvig56 on SCN) from the same event he got my baseball signed. This is a ticket from Luis’ ML Debut and has the inscription. It has a Steiner hologram on the back and a plastic card.
The next package I opened was from Kevin M (mrmain18 on SCN) and had two cards he got signed by John Smiley at an event in Pittsburgh. Kevin got my only two cards I needed signed by John after multiple attempts to get them signed or buy them from others. John has a ghost signer at the address he is widely known to have. I even purchased a couple from reputable sellers in the past which ended up being ghost signed as well. I am happy to FINALLY be able to mark Smiley’s cards off my need list!
My final envelope I hoped was an SASE I sent to Terry Ryan at Target Field. He graciously signed the 2015 Topps Twins team card I sent and included a pair of his signed business cards that I also requested. These items reminded me about the time I chatted with Mr Ryan at a Twinsfest event. It was a highlight of that Twinsfest for me and these items made me think of that time.
Thanks Dustin, Kevin, and Mr Ryan for making my mail day extra fun today!
Today I received a pair of packages. The first one was a package with seven prospects my friend Paul C got me from the minor league teams in Florida. It contained:
Stephen Gonsalves w/”Go Twins”
Nick Burdi w/”Go Twins!”
Matt Imhof w/”Go Phillies”
Ricardo Pinto
Chih-Wei Hu with his name in Taiwanese also
Jarlin Garcia
Amir Garrett w/”Go Reds!”
As always, Paul does a great job and I cannot wait for his next package!
My other package was a do-over with Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty Brennaman. I had sent to him a couple years ago for his call on Pete Rose’s 4192nd hit and he returned it but it was signed in a black felt tip marker. I know that baseballs signed with felt tip markers usually always end up bleeding. I was told that spraying the baseballs preserves them so I tried it. What ended up happening was the ink really bled and make the ball look less than ideal. I sent him another request, with another donation of course, along with pictures of the baseball and kindly asked if he would do another. I got it back today and it looks real nice!