Today I met up with Nick K (royal21 on Pat Neshek’s site) who got me Tyler Flowers a week or so ago. Nick gets me guys at the hotels and ballpark and got me a real nice Flowers. Thanks Nick!
Yet More Rookies and a Winning Bet
Today was another fun day of mail. My friend Paul C hooked me up with another batch of first round draft picks and prospects on baseballs. Today I received from him the following:
Michael Fulmer w/”1st Rd 2011″
Dustin Lawley w/”Florida St MVP 2013″ as he was the Florida State League MVP this year
Kevin Plawaki w/”2012 1st Rd”
Pierce Johnson w/”1st Round 2012″
Another great batch of baseballs from Paul!
My other package was from my friend Mike M (tigernut on SCN). This season, as we have done in the past, we have a running bet that for each series between the Twins and Tigers, the losing team would send the winning team a card from their SCN tradelist. I had won once early in the season and did not have a chance to pick out a card. Mike won too many over the rest of the season until this last series when the Twins won the series so I finally got to pick a card. The two cards I picked out were signed by Rich Becker and Bobby Richardson. Thanks Mike! GO TWINS!!!
A Couple Former Twins
Today I received a couple packages with cards I needed for my Twins card sets. The first was a 2012 Allen & Ginter Ben Revere card. I got this card signed via a private signing at Carl’s Cards and Collectibles in Havertown, PA. The other was a package with a couple Kevin Slowey cards. Marc M (mesarosfamily on SCN) got these signed during Spring Training and we traded for a couple 1974 cards.
Great Scott!
Today I received a package from my friend Jon (Scott) and his son Tyler from Rochester, NY. Jon and Tyler work the Red Wings and since most of the Twins players have been bouncing between there and Minneapolis, he has hooked me up with a lot of autographs for my Topps Twins collection. Today’s package included:
Cole DeVries 2013 Topps
Scott Diamond 2013 Topps
Liam Hendriks 2013 Topps
Chris Herrmann 2013 Topps
Chris Parmelee 2013 Topps
Aaron Hicks 2011 Topps Heritage Minor League
Nick Blackburn eTopps
Jon and Tyler do awesome work and they really take care of me. Thanks guys!
Recently I was digging around my stuff and came across a couple postcards of Bobby Doerr that I sent to him. I received those two back today as well. One is an exhibit card and the other is the Perez Steele card. Always nice to get a hall of famer!