Today’s mail brought a box of four magazines from the Nolan Ryan Foundation. If you want a Nolan Ryan autograph, they do an AMAZING job taking care of your stuff and getting it back to you, etc. They are a first rate operation when it comes to autographs. Nolan visits the place to sign autographs a couple times a year so your wait could be as long as six months but it is worth the wait.
Since I already have all his Sports Illustrated magazines signed, I decided to get some other “odd ball” type magazines. Today I received:
1974 Baseball Illustrated
06.16.1975 Newsweek
1977 Baseball Illustrated
04.30.1980 Inside Sports
All were signed in the perfect location in perfect blue Sharpie and included a NRF hologram.
I’m Dreaming of a (Rondell) White Christmas!
Today I received three cards signed by Rondell White. Rondell has been an elusive signer for me. I tried two other consignments before Mark C (psugator01 on SCN) came through for me. Mark got Rondell to sign the following cards for me:
2006 Topps 576
2006 Topps 647 (already signed by Lew Ford)
2007 Topps 543
I now can close the book on my Rondell White needs! Thanks Mark!
Redsfest
Today I received a box with a couple items I had sent to Matt P (mpgobrowns on SCN) to get signed at Redsfest. He did a great job! Matt got a baseball signed by Devin Mesoraco and two tickets signed by Rasiel Iglesias. Both tickets were from his ML Debut. He signed one with MLB Debut and the other with just MLB before his handler said no inscriptions. They look great. Thanks Matt!
Bird Is The Word
Today I received a ticket signed by Greg Bird. He inscribed 1st MLB HR on it as requested. Unfortunately, the person who got it signed for me used a real thin marker and the autograph does not look the best. The interesting part of the ticket was that Greg hit his first TWO home runs in that game against the Twins.