Today I received a baseball from Mike Trombley asking him to write his favorite memory of Kirby Puckett on a ball. I got a reply that is pretty funny. Mike talks about getting his first paycheck as a MLB player and Puck’s reaction. Good stuff!
Jerry Fos(not)now
Today I received my 1965 Twins team ball back from Jerry Fosnow. I think it is time to retire sending it out. Jerry signed it in blue Sharpie even though I provided him a blue ink pen. I think he did it purposely as the only place left for him to sign was by the Bud Selig Commissioner part of the ball and to get it to show up better than blue ink he used a Sharpie. It looks a lot better than if it was placed elsewhere. There is not any more room and even though I could get two more guys on it (good signers) I will retire it now.
Today, Bud is my Bud
Today I received a pair of Hall of Fame postcards I sent to Bud Selig. I had sent one to him a while ago and it got smeared in transit so I sent it back to him along with a pair of postcards asking him to sign them. He did and returned my donation.
Oh Balls!
Today was a fun day to add a couple cool baseballs to the collection. I noticed on Facebook that Chris Hoag was selling a bunch of game used items from a person who consigned them to him to sell. I was watching some of these items that I thought were cool but was not willing to pay the price they were listed at. On Thursday, the Twins Home Opener Day, Chris ran a sale. It brought the prices down to a little more palatable price. I offered a price for a pair of baseballs and his consignor accepted my offer. I met Chris to pick up the baseballs today since he lived in the city right next to mine. The baseballs I picked up are:
- 2005 Opening Day Game Used Baseball signed by Joe Mauer with “04/08/05 Game Used”
- Game Used baseball from 06.14.2015 which was the game Byron Buxton made his Major League Debut.
With the year Byron has gotten off to I am excited to have this baseball. I have a pair of signed and unsigned tickets from this game in Texas so this is a cool addition.