Today I received a Sports Illustrated magazine I had sent to J Carr (graphmanj on SCN) for a signing sponsored by LoJo Sports for Ryan Zimmerman. The issue was already signed by Ryan Braun and Justin Upton so to get Zimmerman on it makes it even cooler. I now have half the players on the cover to sign it!
Category: Consignment
If You Send It, He Will Sign
Most of you who know me know that my all time most favorite movie is Field of Dreams. I have been fortunate enough to have played catch at the movie site in Dyersville, IA with Caden a couple times in the past. Great movie. I had sent a baseball to James Earl Jones (Terrence Mann in the movie) a while ago. He is always acting somewhere whether it is in a movie or in a Broadway play so he is hit or miss timing wise. Today I received the baseball signed with his name and an inscription of Terrence Mann and Field of Dreams. I had asked for the quote about baseball from the movie but he did not do that.
I also received a real nice package of items that I had sent to Kent B (doggle3 on SCN). In it was a bunch of items I sent to him back when the Twins were coming to KC. In all, he got me the following items signed:
Chris Parmelee 2 @ 1st HR tickets
Francisco Liriano 2006 Topps UH & 2012 Allen & Ginter
Alexi Casilla 2012 Topps Heritage
Lorenzo Cain SS OMLB
Salvado Perez Debut ticket
Mark Mustakas 1st HR ticket
Salvador Perez side panel OMLB
Jonathan Broxton side panel OMLB
He still has a pair of tickets for Eric Hosmer’s ML Debut and his 1st HR that he is still working on. Thanks Kent!
Justice Is Served!
Today’s mail brought a signed David Justice Sports Illustrated magazine. Scott Smith, the SI King, went to Lake Tahoe for Michael Jordan’s golf tournament. He offered to get a number of people’s autographs on a consignment basis. I sent in my Justice regional issue and got it back today signed perfectly.
What is neat about this issue is that it is one of four regional issues released that week for SI. It was one per each of the four teams playing in the LCS for each league. I already had Shane Spencer (Yankees), John Smoltz (Braves) and Greg Vaughn (Padres) and only needed the Braves Justice. I now have all four newsstand issues signed!
The Zack Attack!
I recently did a consignment with Neal T (TuckerKCRoyals on SCN) to get a couple baseballs signed by top prospects at the All Star Futures game. Neal came through with Zack Wheeler for me. Zack is the #22 overall MLB prospect and is in the Mets organization. Not only did Neal get it signed the way I wanted but he also got it signed using the ink pen I sent and provided an awesome summary on where and when he got it.