A Solid Mail Day

Today I received something I was pretty excited about for a while. Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) was recently involved in a private signing with young superstar Fernando Tatis Jr. A while ago I traded a couple tickets to a guy for a sheet of 2019 Padres Opening Week tickets directly from the season ticket book. The opening week had Tatis Jr’s debut (03.28.2019) and his first home run (04.01.2019) and both tickets were on the sheet. I sent it in and got each ticket signed and each with Beckett Witness stickers as well as “MLB Debut” and “1st HR” inscriptions. I sent a picture of it to Caden as soon as I opened it and he replied “That’s sexy” so I guess it passes what a 19 year old thinks is sexy!

The other item I received today was a ticket stub to the 06.09.1999 Twins game signed by Jacque Jones. Jacque is signing via PastPros.com and I sent the ticket and received it with his name and “MLB Debut”.

Not a bad day!

My Favorite Scribe

I grew up diligently reading the Star Tribune newspaper sports section reading about the Twins and other Minnesota sports teams. If I happen to walk past a newsstand and see that Patrick Reusse had an article in the St Paul Pioneer Press, I would buy it (it was a quarter… a dime cheaper than the Trib) just for the article written by Reusse. He was a great beat writer for the Twins for a long, long time. He eventually moved to the Star Tribune and wrote for them so I had the best of both worlds then. He has been a finalist for the JG Taylor Spink Award and I hope he someday wins it.
I recently sent him a baseball along with a box to return it in and a donation. I happened to include my Twitter handle on my letter which I rarely do but I am glad I did it this time. Out of the blue I receive a message on Twitter from Patrick telling me he tossed the return box accidently and would use the donation to securely mail it back to me. Sure enough, he went to the UPS Store and shipped it to me. I immediately returned the postage he paid so he can at least buy a Diet Coke on me. Oh, and the cool thing? He followed me on Twitter!

A WSMVP

Today I received a Sports Illustrated magazine I had sent to Doug K (4192HITS on SCN) for his signing event with 2018 World Series MVP Steve Pearce. I already had one of these magazines signed by Pearce but at Doug’s prices, I could not pass up sending my last unsigned magazine to him. Steve signed it beautifully in silver paint pen and include 2018 WS MVP under his name.

Nice Way To End The Year!

Today I received a couple multi signed items that received the final signature to complete them.
The first was a Twins at Angels ticket from 08.08.1983. The Twins turned a triple play in the game and I already had Gary Gaetti and Kent Hrbek on it. Guy P (gpuglia on SCN) had a signing with John Castino so I sent it in. Castino was the last person I needed on it to finish all three players involved in the triple play.
The other item was the 09.24.2018 Sports Illustrated. I already had one signed by all four people shown on the cover but since I was able to finish another, I thought “Why not?” so I sent it to Carlton Fisk. He signed it and now it is signed by Mike Torrez, Don Denkinger, Carlton Fisk, and Bucky Dent. This is my second completed one and I have one more that has everyone but Torrez on it. Someday I will go for the trifecta!
Happy New Year!

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