Today I received a pair of Sports Illustrated magazines I purchased from Nick S (Smitty227 on SCN). They are the 12.11.2014 Jon Lester issue that is signed in beautiful silver paint pen and the 05.16.2016 Javier Baez issue signed in blue Sharpie and is PSA certified. Both magazines are beautiful and are perfect additions to my collection! Thanks Nick!
Three’s A Crowd
Today I received three packages of signed baseball goodies. I am pretty excited about all three!
The first was an envelope of signed tickets that Steve S (cosmo on SCN) got signed for me at the Boston Red Sox Winterfest event. Steve did a fantastic job on a real tough signing team. He got the following tickets signed:
Andrew Benintendi- Debut Ticket
Eduardo Rodriguez- Debut Ticket w/”MLB Debut”
Blake Swihart- Debut Ticket w/”MLB” (I guess he does not know how to spell debut???)
Sam Travis- 2 @ Debut Ticket both with “MLB Debut”
Steve even included a signed bonus card of Cosmo!
The next package I received was a magazine I had sent to Dave Parker via Past Pros. Dave signed my June 1979 Sport magazine. It turned out great.
The final box I opened was three baseballs that Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN) sent me that I purchased from him. Chris does a great job on hard to get prospects and these are nice baseballs to add to the collection especially after Baseball America released their Top 100 Prospects list last week. These baseballs are:
Brendan Rodgers
Estevan Florial
Alec Hansen
It was a pretty good mail day for the old baseball collection!
JR
Back on January 2nd I mailed three packages out to three former baseball players who sign via Past Pros. I have heard a lot of great things about Past Pros and thought I would give it a try. Today I received my first package back. JR Richard signed my July 1979 issue of Sport magazine that he was on the cover of. He signed it perfectly and I could not be more pleased. I look forward to getting my other two packages back and then look and see who else signs via Past Pros that I can send to.
Twinsfest 2018 – Day 3
Today is always a bittersweet day. The final day of Twinsfest is exciting because it is Twinsfest but you know it is the last day. Both kids headed down with me today. Caden hung out with his friends for most of the day and Cami hung out with me for almost the entire day except when she went through a few lines for herself. I used today to finish off some players and to talk with a few friends. We arrived at Target Field around 7:30 this morning for the 9am opening. We went to the Brian Dozier line right away and I was able to knock off a couple Dozier autographs I needed. Then Caden took off with his friends while Cami and I walked to other lines. The next stop for us was Byron Buxton in the Twins Wives line. We each got a card signed. Cami went off to another couple lines while I got in line for Joe Mauer at the Twins Wives line. I had to wait a couple hours for that line to start but Cami was able to get through a pair of lines and got me a few items. When she arrived back the first words out of her mouth were “Well that was embarrassing!” I asked her what she meant. When she gave Aaron Slegers his debut ticket and asked him to inscribe the ticket ML Debut dated August 16, 2017 he said his debut was on August 17, 2017 and did not inscribe it. I told Cami that we were both right. His debut WAS on the 17th but it was the make up from the night before that was rained out so the correct ticket was the 16th. Oh well. It is signed. He probably thought she was crazy. We got through the Mauer line at the Twins Wives line and headed to the service level where we each went through a couple different lines. I headed to the Gonsalves/Mejia/Berrios line and Cami went to the Enns/Chargois/Rooker line. Once I finished the line I was in I headed to the Enns/Chargois/Rooker line and ended up running into Caden who was in that line too. After that I went and spent a fun time chatting with my friend Tony S and his son Spencer. Caden and Cami ran around to a couple more lines and we called it a day. The final day’s totals for me are (including items Caden and Cami got for me but not including things they got for themselves):
Brian Dozier: 06/01/2017 Topps Now
Joe Mauer: 06/01/2017 Topps Now, 2008 Topps 287
JT Chargois: 2 @ 2013 Bowman Chrome BCP137
Alalberto Mejia: 2017 Topps Now Wild Card, 2017 Topps Heritage 550
Byron Buxton: 11/10/2017 Topps Now, 2017 Wild Card Topps Now
Eddie Rosario: 09/13/2017 Topps Now
Jose Berrios: 2017 Wild Card Topps Now, 2017 Topps Heritage 566
Royce Lewis: OMLB
John Curtiss: 2 @ 2015 Choice
Travis Blankenhorn: 2016Bowman Chrome BCP185
Stephen Gonsalves: 2017 Bowman BP44, 2017 Topps Minors 191, 2014 Bowman BDPP49
Gene Glynn: 2 @ Minor League team issues
Garvin Alston: 1997 Fleer 582
Brent Rooker: OMLB, OMLB w/”2017 1st Round Pick”
Alex Kirilloff: OMLB
Fernando Rodney: Debut ticket
Dietrich Enns: 3 @ Debut ticket with “MLB Debut”
Lewis Thorpe: 2 @ 2014 Bowman BP32 (1 smudged)
Max Kepler: OMLB