September was another great month. It’s always great to get more TTMs than there are days in the month. With me only posting one TTM a day I have quite the backlog at this point. I received 36 total successes with 91 cards in those returns. That’s a little less than normal, but I think I know the reason for that. In August and September I focused a lot on coaches (mostly from the minors in August) and current players. In general, I don’t send out as many cards in each envelope to them.
So let’s check out some interesting stats:
- The longest returns were 492 days for Ronda Rousey and 482 days for Dave Righetti (I still have yet to post both)
- The quickest return was 6 days for the man, Pat Neshek
- 9 current players
- 7 minor league coaches/managers
- 6 major league coaches/managers/front office staff
As for failures there were four. Two were for bad addresses for Bob Shirley and Garth Iorg. I’ll go back to the drawing board on those. The third was for Clint Hurdle. He sends back a postcard asking for a donation to support a charity close to him. I think he asked for $10 which seems very fair. The last was sheer stupidity on my fault. I sent to Brad Brach and forgot he went to the Braves.
Hoping for another solid month in October. I’m going to slow them down a bit and move towards strictly former players at their homes/businesses. I hope you had a good month of returns too.