Today’s mail brought a baseball signed by Mike Piazza. This baseball included his HOF inscription and was bought via the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association and had the MLB Hologram.
Archer To The Max
Today I received a pair of baseballs I purchased from Shawn M (shawnmcnair on SCN). One was a Max Scherzer baseball and the other is a PSA/DNA Chris Archer. I have wanted an Archer for a while. This is a second Scherzer for me but since he is a pretty good pitcher, it isn’t bad to have an extra.
Danny Thompson, What a Shame
Wow! What a package I received today! My friend Kyle S (esiason14 from SCN) sent me a PSA/DNA authenticated 1975 Danny Thompson card signed in blue sharpie. It looks awesome. It was one of my final two cards I needed from the 1975 Topps Twins set. What a phenomenal gesture! THANK YOU Kyle!
You might wonder why I titled this “Danny Thompson, What a Shame”. Back in the mid-1980’s the Twins had a give away where they gave away a 45 record that had the “Gopher Rouser” on one side and a couple Twins songs on the other. Of course there was the “Win Twins” song but the other song was Terry Cashman’s “Talkin’ Baseball” Twins version. I had never heard the Twins version before and listened to it over and over on my parent’s old record player. I learned a pair of things from that song… I learned that Jack Kralik had a no hitter and there was something about Danny Thompson that I had to learn about. The lyrics were something like “Kralik had a no hit game. Danny Thompson, what a shame.” This was before google so I had to look it up in a couple Twins almanac type books I had. I learned that Danny passed away in a truly sad manner, succumbing to leukemia.
This is my very first Danny Thompson autographed card for my collection. Thanks again Kyle!
Nothing To Yoan About
Today I received a pair of tickets I had sent to Lezcano D (deano on SCN) who was going to Sox Fest for the White Sox. He was able to get Lucas Giolito to sign his ticket without personalization (no small feat) and included “MLB Debut”. He also got Yoan Moncada to sign his debut ticket. Both look fantastic!