With the latest downtime regarding autographs, I found that I was missing Carlton Fisk on my cover of the October 1979 issue of Baseball Magazine. I had Pete Rose, Don Larsen, and Bill Mazeroski on it but somehow missed adding Fisk when I was working on it. I sent it to him with his donation and requested him to inscribe it with “Stay Fair!!” which he did. The cover shows him waving his World Series home run to stay fair. Even though this issue includes Willie Mays on the cover, I will not be able to add him to it so I consider the cover completed!
Back To Signing!
I received a package of autographed baseballs from my guy Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN) today. He and I are both excited that some players and teams are back to signing autographs at the ballpark. The balls I got are:
Pete Alonso
James McCann
Oswald Peraza
Gunner Henderson
Chris is already working on another batch for me!
From India With Love
Today I received an awesome package of items from Vincent B (Lucky’s Sports Cards and Memorabilia) who recently had a signing with Jonathan India. Lucky’s is the exclusive promoter of India’s autographs, etc and I could not be happier with the items I received today! I got two baseballs and two debut tickets, one with “MLB Debut,” and they all look fantastic! I got JSA on each item but Lucky’s also has an exclusive hologram as well. Vincent must be a collector too as he does things right!
Laying Down The Law!
If you are a regular (one of the very few) reader of this blog, you probably remember Vinnie Miller as a person who I have worked with pretty consistently with to procure autographs for me. Vinnie does a lot of in person autographs but with COVID, he started doing private signings. I never would have thought that my Sports Illustrated magazines with Matt Lawton on the cover would ever get signed but, thanks to Vinnie, they did! I sent in three 04.30.2001 issues for the signing and received them back today!