Today I received two different magazines I sent to have Nolan Ryan about a month ago. Nolan Ryan signs via the Nolan Ryan Foundation and is pretty reasonably priced and include his hologram. The magazines I got included:
06.16.1975 Sports Illustrated (first issue)
April 1980 Sport
Both signed beautifully in blue Sharpie!
Great Groat!
Today I received a May, 1961 Sport magazine signed by Dick Groat. Dick was the 1960 NL MVP and has been very kind to me in the past. He did not let me down this time either! He signed it, as he typically does, with “Best Regards” and “1960 N.L. MVP”. He is a great signer for his fans!
Jim Dandy!
Today I received a neat baseball I had sent to Jim Marshall. Jim is not someone a typical baseball fan thinks of or even heard of in most cases. I happened to be watching MLB’s 2015 Legends In Scouting where they honored a few baseball scouts. I was so impressed with Mr Marshall’s resume that I knew I had to send him a baseball and ask him to write his “stats” on it. Mr Marshall was introduced as “an original Met. He played for Casey Stengel, worked for PK Wrigley, Managed for Charles O’Finley and was the first Major League player to play in Japan”. That is quite the resume spanning a number of decades! I sent him a baseball requesting all that on a baseball and received it back with:
His name and “2015 Legends In Scouting” on the sweetspot.
“Original Met 1962”
“Played for Casey Stengel”
“1st ML player to Play in Japan Chunichi Dragons 1963”
“Managed for Charlie O’Finley Oakland A’s 1979”
“Managed for P.K. Wrigley Chicago Cubs 1974-1976”
He even wrapped the baseball box up in tissue paper when he sent it back to me and included his business card and even returned my donation. What an awesome baseball! It certainly tells a story of an amazing person and their life devoted to baseball!
Happy For Javy!
Today I went to the Iowa Cubs game with the kids and Caden’s baseball team. We were all in Des Moines for a baseball tournament and it worked out that the Cubs were in town so we got forty tickets and everyone went. It was a blast. Cami, Caden’s friend Cayden, and I got to the ballpark just as the gates opened. It had rained up to that point so the tarp was on the field and the players were not out taking batting practice. The three of us waited where the players take the field and most walked past us. Cayden and Cami saw that Corey Seager (the number five prospect in baseball) was going to the Dodgers’ dugout and decided to head there. I had a ML debut ticket of Javier Baez that I was hoping to get signed so I waited halfway down the third base line watching him warm up. Once he was done, we went to a couple kids and signed for them and posed for a photo and then signed my ticket. I was really excited. On the other side of the field Cayden and Cami were able to get Corey Seager. They also got another player after the game. Cami conned me into buying her a game used signed bat but Chris Valaika.
We all had a blast and the kids got on the scoreboard video screen twice! Unfortunately for the Cottage Grove Wolfpack, they only won one game and lost three on the weekend. It was fun though!