Card Collecting and TTM Autographs
TTM Stats Sent: 5/27/17 | Received: 6/5/17 | 8 Days Sent pre-signed photo (Returned Sports Illustrated 6/23/14) Address: Coach K’s Duke Basketball Camp The Story of the Autograph I’m not a Dukie or a Duke fan, but there’s no way you can…
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The failures this month are of two Sports Illustrated magazines. Both were somewhat on a wing and a prayer. In fact, I barely had an address for one. I sent the American Pharaoh 6/15/15 cover to Bob Baffert (the horse’s trainer). Unfortunately there…
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TTM Stats Sent: 4/22/17 | Received: 5/4/2017 | 12 Days 1981 Fleer (Returned 2 other cards unsigned) Address: Washington Nationals The Story of the Autograph I’ve sent to Davy a couple times and he is definitely a guy who only…
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Only one unsuccessful return this month, Ryan McDonagh. I’m a little disappointed as a NY Rangers fan, but I think I should have known. I haven’t been successful with that many Rangers to this point. That said, he did return the…
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TTM Stats Sent: 4/8/17 | Received: 4/17/17 | 9 Days Sports Illustrated 4/7/2014 Address: University of Kentucky Basketball The Story of the Autograph I used to love Kentucky basketball, I am not so much of a fan of Calipari though. I’m…
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TTM Stats Sent: 2/2/17 | Received: 3/6/17 | 34 Days Sports Illustrated 5/27/13 Address: Cardinals Spring Training The Story of the Autograph I had this one firmly placed into the “no way” category. I didn’t look up anything about Wainwright signing…
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TTM Stats Sent: 1/30/17 | Received: 2/22/17 | (22 Days) Sports Illustrated 7/22/13 Address: Blue Jays Spring Training The Story of the Autograph This is a great Spring Training signing which is about the only way I really get Blue…
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I came up with a scoring system (just for fun it’s the BraveSTARR Score) for my autographs to have a little more fun with it. Keep in mind it’s completely subjective. It has nothing to do with how I feel about the person providing…
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When I got back into collecting I didn’t have the money to spend on the true card storage boxes (those you see with five rows and a cover). But I did some experimenting (and got lucky) and found a great…
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Getting started with collecting anything only requires one thing… being interested. You need to like what you are doing, and you wouldn’t be if here if you didn’t. Great! You’ve met the only requirement. We’re done… not so fast. While…
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