Today I received a pair of Sports Illustrated magazines signed by Endy Chavez. Endy is the guy front-center on the cover of the 06.18.2007 issue along with five other people. Louis C (castleboys on SCN) had a signing with Endy and got these two signed perfectly for me!
A Wild Moose!
Today I received a pair of items for the collection.
The first was a box that had three baseballs I had sent to Lucky’s Sportscards for a private signing they were having with James “Wild Thing” Karinchak. James is a hard throwing reliever in the Indians organization who will be a top rated closer real soon. Vinny (owner of Lucky’s) also email me a photo of James holding the actual three baseballs he had just signed for me. I was really impressed with the service I received from Lucky’s. I got JSA on each ball too.
The other package was a Lanny Frattare scorecard I had sent to Mike Mussina. It was from the game on 06.14.2005 when Moose threw a complete game shutout against the Pirates at Yankee Stadium. I had sent a real nice note and even extra money to have it inscribed with “22nd CG SO” but all I got was “HOF 19”. Oh well. At least I got it back and got it back signed.
A Hammer of Consistency
Ron Reed… you might not have heard of him. I had not heard of him prior to looking at Hank Aaron’s 715th home run boxscore. Turns out Ron was the winning pitcher in the game The Hammer hit #715. I sent Mr Reed a baseball asking to write a story about the game Hank hit #715. What I received was something I never knew… Ron wrote that he was the winning pitcher the game Hank hit his 500th HR. He was also the winning pitcher the game Hank hit his 600th HR. That means Ron got the win in three big milestone games for Hank Aaron and they were teammates for only 6 years. Hank hit a lot of homers over those 6 years to have Ron be the winning pitcher in each game!
A Buzz Cut
Today I received a baseball signed by Buzz Capra. Buzz was the person who earned the save in the game Hank Aaron hit his 715th homerun breaking Babe Ruth’s record. Buzz wrote how “it was a very electrifying night – tremendous crowd” and how we came in to the game and pitched the last three innings to earn the save. Pretty neat story ball on a great moment in baseball history!