I received a pair of autographs from Rollie Fingers today. A while ago I purchased a dozen or so different hand painted stamped and cancelled cachet envelopes with baseball players on them. They are painted in water color and look really neat. While I have a few from years ago in my collection, they are mostly Twins and not something that I specifically collect. But, when I got a nice price on these and they looked cool I grabbed the ones I figured I could get signed. Rollie signed his cachet as well as a Baseball Digest from March, 1982. Pretty cool to get a couple Hall of Famer autographs!
The Express Part I
I sent a pair of items to the Nolan Ryan Foundation to be signed around Thanksgiving. I remember sending items to be signed by Nolan shortly after his induction into the Hall of Fame. His foundation does an amazing job with the autographs whether it is quality or communication.
I mailed the two items in two packages to decrease the likelihood I would lose both if something happened to either one and today I received the first package. Nolan signed his name and “324 Win” on a ticket from the August, 15, 1993 game in Cleveland when he picked up his 624th and final win of his career. The Foundation placed a hologram on the back, as requested, and the ticket is awesome! I expect to received the other really cool package soon!
Molly
Paul Molitor was a favorite player of mine years ago. Not at the Puckett or Mauer level but I admired his game and loved listening to him talk baseball. I tracked down a nice pair of Baseball Digest magazines that he was on and had a Hall of Fame induction ticket already signed by Dennis Eckersley that was sitting around waiting to be signed so I sent them off along with a real nice donation. I received all three items back signed perfectly today and am very excited to have these in my collection!
Sanoooo Doubt About It!
At one time Miguel Sano was one of the most feared hitters in baseball. He has since fallen off the map and is currently playing baseball in the Dominican Republic. Jackson T (of Big T Authentics and zagurski2016 on SCN) is pretty much the current go to guy for Dominican players’ autographs as he travels back and forth multiple times a year and has built up a nice stable of players he gets to sign. This was the first, and only so far, signing for Sano since he left the Twins and I had a bunch of cards I needed for my sets. So, I took all my non-Topps Now cards and a Triple Play ticket and shipped them to Jackson. The cards I sent and got signed are:
-2017 Topps Now already signed by Dozier & Mauer
-2020 Topps 412
-2020 Topps 424
-2021 Topps 383
-2021 Topps US248
-2022 Topps 123
-2020 Topps Heritage 441
-2021 Topps Heritage 456
-2022 Topps Heritage 384
-2020 Allen & Ginter 269
-2021 Gypsy Queen 216
-2022 Gypsy Queen 206
And the ticket was the Triple Play game from 06.01.2017 against the Angels. I had that signed by Brian Dozier and he inscribed Triple Play. You can see the ticket in the picture Jackson sent me of Sano signing.
I am really excited to knock off all my Sano collection needs except for my Topps Now. I have to wait for another signing as this one was not cheap!