I thought I had everything I needed signed by Johnny Damon when I found a listing that Jamie B (jamieblye on SCN) had for a private signing and looked to make sure. Turns out I did not have his signature on the 04.04.2005 Sports Illustrated magazine. It is the 2005 Baseball Preview Issue and has Derek Jeter pictured with Damon. I will never finish this because Jeter’s autographs are astronomically priced and if I was to spend the money on something there are a half dozen items I would get signed before this SI. It looks great though!
Who’s Keeping Score?
Over that last half dozen years, or more, I have been purchasing scorecards from Lanny Frattare’s collection. Lanny was the Pirates KDKA radio broadcaster from 1976-2008 and at retirement put his entire collection of scorecards up for sale. His son David handles all the sales. All scorecards are signed by Lanny and I really like getting them signed by the person who made the event special. Today’s scorecards are:
05.03.1977 at Braves – Phil Niekro 11 IP CG Loss, 9Ks, 8ER, 12H
08.23.1985 vs Astros – Nolan Ryan 8 IP, 6K
06.17.2006 vs Twins – Joe Mauer 1-3, 2B – Joe Nathan 98th Career Save
08.17.2008 vs Mets- Johan Santana complete game shutout- 7Ks 3H
09.24.2008 at Brewers – CC Sabathia W 7 IP, 4H, 1R, 11K – Eric Gagne Final Career Hold #12
09.25.2008 at Brewers – Eric Gagne Final MLB Game & K, 718th Career K
Pablo Day!
FanHQ recently had a signing with Twins pitcher Pablo Lopez. I noticed I never had gotten him on a baseball! I only got him on baseball cards at Twinsfest. I prepaid for a signed baseball and it showed up today. I gotta say, Shaun H and his crew at FanHQ do an awesome job with all their signings. He truly is a collectors friend!
Ouch!
There was a play during the 1991 World Series where Dan Gladden slide home and the Braves catcher Greg Olson was flipped on his head. Dan is known to sign photos of the play with “Play Hard, Slide Harder”. The play was memorialized on the cover of Sports Illustrated and Baseball Digest. Today I received my Baseball Digest from June, 1992 from Greg Olson and he signed it beautifully in blue Sharpie. I looked for a nice copy of the issue without a mailing label and finally found one and sent it off to Greg.