Posted by esiason14 :: Posted in 1962 Topps, Multisigned, Programs/Magazines, TTM Autographs, vintage autographs :: 
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Not a bad week. I received several autographs TTM including a couple for my 1962 Topps set.
Jake Gibbs (1962 Topps)
Ed Hobaugh (2nd auto on 1962 Topps Senators team card)
Ed Roebuck (1962 Topps)
Jim Landis (1962 Topps)
Mike de la Hoz (1962 Topps)
Chuck Essegian (1962 Topps)
Jim Thome (2003 Upper Deck Vintage)
Ty Cline (1965 Topps)
Ty Cline (1966 Topps)
Ty Cline (1966 Topps Cubs team)
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and my favorite return this week was from Marlan Coughtry. I have been looking for Mr. Coughtry for quite some time. Every once in a while I check to see if he is doing any signings. Each time I come up with nothing. I was finally able to locate Marlan and I wrote him a letter asking if it was ok if I sent him a card to sign. He wrote back in under a week giving me the okay. I was thrilled when I got this card back today along with a nice letter. I was able to finish off this Rookie Parade card for my set and met another nice former player TTM. Thanks again!
1962 Topps Rookie Parade Infielders
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I also made a couple of small purchases:
1951 Dell Sports Album signed by Bob Lemon, Stan Musial, and George Kell.
1951 Dell Sports Album (Lemon, Musial, Kell
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1959 Topps Pitching Partners (Pascual / Ramos
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1959 Topps Pitching Partners (Camilo Pascual / Pedro Ramos)
Tags: 1962 Topps, Bob Lemon, Camilo Pascual, Ed Hobaugh, Ed Roebuck, George Kell, Jake Gibbs, Jim Landis, Marlan Coughtry, Multisigned, Pedro Ramos, Rookie Parade, Stan Musial, TTM Autographs, Ty Cline
Posted by esiason14 :: Posted in 1962 Topps, Multisigned, vintage autographs :: No Comments Yet
I just received the latest additions to my 1962 Topps set. Some amazing cards here including a “Braves’ Backstops” card signed by Joe Torre/Del Crandall, “1962 NL Homerun leaders” signed by Willie Mays/Frank Robinson/Orlando Cepeda, and my favorite….Mickey Mantle/Willie Mays dual signed “Managers’ Dream”. Plus several more including a few of HOFers (Yogi Berra, Eddie Mathews, Ernie Banks).
Mickey Mantle/Willie Mays
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1961 NL HR Leaders
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Braves' Backstops
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Yogi Berra
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Eddie Mathews
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Ernie Banks
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On top of these, I also received: Tom Tresh, Harvey Haddix, Bill Kunkel, Chico Fernandez, and Mack Jones.
Posted by esiason14 :: Posted in Programs/Magazines, TTM Autographs :: No Comments Yet
I picked up a pretty neat 40+ year old, 22 page Phillies scorecard today. It’s in great condition. I love finding stuff like this. It’s full of some great old ads (I wish a new car was still $1895), player info, and stats. This scorecard was actually scored. Some people don’t like that, but I do.
This particular scorecard was from a Phillies – Giants game. That day the Giants hit back-to-back-to-back homeruns.
The Giants lineup included: Bobby Bonds, Willie McCovey, Dave Marchall, Hal Lanier, Ron Hunt, Ken Henderson, Tito Fuentes, Bob Barton. Mike McCormick was the starting pitcher.
The Phillie lineup included: Tony Taylor, Johnny Callison, Dick Allen, Deron Johnson, Larry Hisle, Cookie Rojas, Don Money, Mike Ryan. The SP was John Boozer.
I plan on sending this out to a few of the old players. First up: Woodie Fryman. Woodie pitched in the majors from 1966-1983. In 18 seasons, he put up a record of 141-155.
1969 Phillies Scorecard Front
1969 Phillies Scorecard Back
1969 Phillies lineup and scoring
1969 Giants lineup and scoring
Tags: baseball programs, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, scorecards
Posted by esiason14 :: Posted in 1962 Topps, Multisigned, vintage autographs :: 3 comments
Added a couple of really nice Rookie Parade cards today. These cards are hard to find unsigned and I managed to find a couple fully completed…and another couple that were partially completed. I hope to finish those off over the next few months.
Rookie Parade Infielders with Joe Pepitone
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Rookie Parade Pitchers with Jim Bouton
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Rookie Parade Infielders 1962 Topps
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Rookie Parade Catchers 1962 Topps
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Posted by esiason14 :: Posted in Questionnaires, TTM Autographs :: No Comments Yet
With many of the requests that we send TTM, we like to include a short Q&A for some of the older players. My son usually chooses the questions and we try to limit them to three. Sometimes we get back the questionnaire and it’s blank and other times we get them filled out…or even a hand-written letter. Whether they only answer one or they take the time to write a full letter, we are always more than happy to read their responses.
I decided to add a page to share these with fellow collectors. Right now I have ~40 up and I have more than 200 others that I will be posting shortly. I apologize for the poor quality, my scanner kicked the bucket. When I buy a new one I will post better quality images.
Baseball questionnaires
Football questionnaires
If anyone else has any stories about their correspondence with former players, we would love to hear about it.
UPDATE 1/07/10: Better scans of questionnaires have been uploaded!
Tags: player Q&A, Questionnaires
