Today I received a baseball I purchased from MLAM. The final living Hall of Famer I needed (I include the broadcasters with them) on a baseball was Tim McCarver. I compared prices and for a few bucks more than it would have cost me to send in to a show, I was able to get one with an inscription and MLB certified. The one I received was perfect!
Category: Bought
The Future Twins
Today I received three baseballs I recently purchased from Ryan C (rycomstock on SCN) of players who are highly rated prospects within the Twins organization. The three I got are:
Byron Buxton
Miguel Sano
Oswaldo Arcia
The Buxton baseball included “2012 2nd Pick” as he was the second overall pick and the Arcia ball included his middle name Celestino. I am excited to have these future guys in my collection. One of the coolest parts is that Ryan put me in contact with a person living in Ft Myers, FL and is going to work on getting some more autographs at the Instructional League games. Watch for more Twins prospects coming soon!
Win Twins!
Today’s mail brought in five signed 2012 Topps Twins cards. I bought them from Bryan S (bryangoreds on SCN) who got them signed when the Twins were in Cincinnati back in June. Nice to get a decent dent in the current years’ cards!
A Great Mail Day!
Today was a great mail day. I received items from three places.
The first was from MLAM. They recently sent out a couple emails regarding highly rated prospects that they got to sign baseballs at the All Star Game and two guys listed I wanted. Both are known for being difficult signers and I knew the only way I could get them the way I wanted them, at this time, was to get them via MLAM. Today a pair of blue ink, sweetspot autographed baseballs signed by Francisco Lindor and Manny Machado showed up. The service from MLAM was great!
Also arriving was my tickets and cards from last weekend’s Chili Davis appearance at Fan HQ. I was unable to go because Caden had a baseball tournament so I sent in the last two cards I needed signed by Chili. I am now down to needing just ONE more card signed for the 1991 10 Year Anniversary Card set. That is Mark Guthrie. Hopefully some day. So, I got the 1991 10 Year Anniversary card signed as well as the 1991 Topps Traded cards signed by Chili Davis. Fan HQ also did a private signing with Trevor Plouffe so I sent in a ticket from his ML Debut and his first HR game. I wanted the inscriptions and knew this was the best way to get them. They all turned out awesome.
Finally was something I was waiting on for a while. I traded some cards with Clint R (cardfan4ever on SCN) and sent him an Eric Hosmer ML Debut ticket to get signed. He got it signed and I received it today. Another ticket to the collection!