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I collected autographs through the mail several years ago with fairly good results...I just started back up again in the past month. I have to give much credit to Raiderguy10 for helping me out with several addresses! I am also using Startiger.
Jim McMahon - Sent out 2/8 returned signed 2/17 He signed and personalized 3/3 cards to me in blue sharpie. Coach K from Duke email request...sent a signed 8x10 picture in 2 days. I will keep updating my results in this thread. BASEBALL: Dustin Ackley 2/2 Garrett Anderson 1/2 Lars Anderson 2/2 Chris Archer 2/2 Brad Ausmus 2/2 Ernie Banks (HOF) 2/2 Floyd Bannister 3/3 Don Baylor 3/3 Billy Beane 2/2 Glenn Beckert (former Cubs) 2/2 Gordon Beckham 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 David Bell 2/2 Kyle Bellamy 1/1 Wade Boggs (HOF) 2/2 with donation, 3/3, 2/2 Bobby Bonilla 1/2, 3/3 Joe Borowski 3/3 Larry Bowa 2/2 Brad Boxberger 2/2 Michael Brenly 2/2 Jordan Brown 1/1 Tom Brunansky 3/3, 4/4 Steve Buechele 2/2, 3/3 Mark Buehrle 1/1 Bumgarner FAIL Jim Bunning (HOF) 2/2 Randy Bush 4/4 Brett Butler 4/4 Chris Carpenter (Cubs organization) 2/2 Sean Casey 2/2 Welington Castillo 2/2 Simon Castro 2/2 Rick Cerone 1/3 Ron Cey 2/3, 3/3, 3/3 Will Clark 1/1, 1/1 Roger Clemens 1/1 (does not sign item, but sends authentic auto back), 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 Kal Daniels 1/1 Darren Daulton 1/1 Ivan DeJesus 2/2 Ryan Dempster 1/2, 1/1, 1/1 Dustin Dickerson 2/2 Bobby Doerr (HOF) 3/3, 3/3, 3/3 Kyle Drabek 2/2, 2/2 Brian Duensing 1/1 Shawon Dunston 3/3 Mike Easler 3/3 Bob Feller (HOF) 1/1 (donation), 2/2 (donation) Chone Figgins 2/3 Tyler Flowers 2/2, 1/1 Juan Francisco c/o Atlanta 1/2 Todd Frazier 1/1, 2/2 Rey Fuentes 2/2 Ron Gardenhire 2/2 Pat Gillick 1/1 (HOF) with HOF inscription on ROMLB Paul Goldschmidt 1/2, 1/2 Johnny Gomes 2/2 Goose Gossage 1/1 (donation), 1/1 (donation) Mark Grace 2/2, 2/2 Curtis Granderson 1/2 (sent his own signed postcard) Grant Green 2/2 Nick Hagadone 2/2 Josh Hamilton 1/2, 1/1, 1/1, 1/1(photo) Doug Harvey (HOF) 2/2 Chase Headley 1/1 Jeremy Hellickson 1/1 Matt Hobgood 2/2 Denny Hocking 2/2 Daniel Hudson 1/1, 1/1 Orlando Hudson 2/2 Danny Hultzen 1/1 Clint Hurdle 2/2 Edwin Jackson 2/2 Jay Jackson 2/2 Chad Jenkins 2/2 Jay Johnstone 2/2 Chipper Jones 1/1 (signed postcard) Lance Johnson 1/3 Al Kaline (HOF) 1/1 (donation) Casey Kelly 2/2 Clayton Kershaw 1/1, 1/1 Don Kessinger 1/1 Jimmy Key 1/1, 1/1 Ron Kittle 3/3, 4/4 Matt LaPorta 1/1, 1/1 Tony LaRussa 1/1, 1/2 Ryan Lavarnway 2/2 personalized Vance Law 3/3 Mike Leake 1/1 (personalized), 1/1, 1/1 D.J. LeMahieu 2/2 personalized Colby Lewis 1/1 Jon Lieber 2/2 Ted Lilly 1/1 David Lough 1/1 Steve Lyons 3/3 Greg Luzinski 3/3 Lee Macphail (HOF) 2/2 Justin Masterson 1/1 Hideki Matsui 1/1 Cameron Maybin 2/2 Oddibe McDowell 3/3 (with personalizations and best wishes inscribed) Kevin Mench 3/3 Will Middlebrooks 2/2 John "Mule" Miles - 3/2 Shelby Miller 1/1 Mickey Morandini 3/3 Keith Moreland 2/2, 3/3 Joe Morgan (HOF) 1/1 *index card* Jason Motte 2/2 Mike Moustakas 1/1 Jamie Moyer 3/3, 3/3 Stan "The Man" Musial HOF 1/1 (sent signed postcard), 1/1 (postcard) Mike Napoli 1/2 Joe Nathan 2/2, 1/1 Pat Neshek 2/2 Phil Nevin 3/3 Phil Niekro with HOF inscription (HOF) *donation included Ricky Nolasco 2/2 Ken Oberkfell 4/4 Hideki Okajima 2/2 John Olerud 3/2, 2/2 Chris Owings 2/2 Jeremy Papelbon 1/1 Christopher Parmelee 1/1 Lance Parrish 3/3 Terry Pendleton 3/3 Troy Percival 2/2 Martin Perez 2/2 Neftali Perez 1/1 Juan Pierre 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 A.J. Pierzynski 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 Stolmy Pimentel 3/3 Lou Piniella Dan Pleasac 3/3 A.J. Pollock 1/1 Buster Posey 1/1 Mark Prior 2/2 Jeff Reardon 3/3, 4/4 Trevor Reckling 1/1 Jody Reed 2/2 Rick Reuschel 3/3, 2/2 Clayton Richard 2/2 Anthony Rizzo 2/2, 1/1 Robin Roberts (HOF) 1/1 David Robertson 2/2 C.C. Sabathia 1/1 Bret Saberhagen 2/2 (with donation) Jeff Samardzija 2/2 Nate Sampson 1/1 Juan Samuel 3/3 Tony Sanchez 2/2, 1/1 Ryne Sandberg (HOF) 1/2 Jerry Sands 2/2 Red Schoendienst (HOF) 1/1 *donation included Zane Smith 4/4 Matt Szczur 1/1 Tyler Skaggs 1/1 Lee Smith FAIL (pricelist) Lonnie Smith 2/2 Ian Snell 3/3 Duke Snider (HOF) 1/1 (donation) Luke Sommer 1/1 Cory Spangenberg 2/2 Matt Spencer 1/1 Tobi Stoner 2/2 Drew Stubbs 2/2 Franklin Stubbs 3/3 Dale Sveum 1/3 Frank Tanana 5/4, 5/4 Michael Taylor 1/1 Ron Teasley 1/1 Bobby Thomson 2/2, 4/4 Luis Tiant 4/4 Mike Timlin 3/3 Alan Trammell FAIL RTS, 1/2 spring training Manny Trillo 3/3 Mike Trout 2/2 Steve Trout 2/2 Virgil "Fire" Trucks 2/1 (with perfect game dates and personalizations, along with nice note back) John Tudor 3/3 Bob Uecker 1/1 Bobby Valentine 1/1 Fernando Valenzuela 1/3 Edinson Volquez signed 2/2 Ron Washington 3/3 Randy Wells 3/3 Zack Wheeler 1/1 Matt Wieters 1/1 Kenny Williams 3/3 Matt Williams 1/1 C.J. Wilson 1/1 Dave Winfield (HOF) 1/1 with donation David Wright 1/1 Robin Yount 0/1 FAIL Brad Ziegler 1/1 Don Zimmer 2/2 Ryan Zimmerman 1/2 Ben Zobrist 3/2 FOOTBALL: Herb Adderley (HOF) 2/2, 2/2 Troy Aikman 0/1 sent back autopenned pic Shaun Alexander 3/3, 4/4 Mike Alstott 1/1 Lance Alworth (HOF) 2/2 Dick Anderson 2/2 Pat Angerer 2/2 (1 card, 1 photo) Anthony Armstrong 2/1 *personalized and wrote nice note back to me* Steve Atwater 3/3, 1/1 Matt Barkley 1/1 Gary Beban 1/1 Chuck Bednarik (HOF) 2/2, 1/1 (photo with inscriptions) Joe Bellino 2/2 Raymond Berry (HOF) 4/3, 4/2 George Blanda (HOF) 1/1 Emerson Boozer 3/3 Gary Brackett 2/2 (photos taken from training camp) Terry Bradshaw (HOF) 1/1, 1/1 Cliff Branch 1/1 Bubby Brister 3/3 Derrick Brooks 2/2 Mack Brown (email request 1/1) preprint? Mark Brunell 3/3 Teddy Bruschi 2/2 Maury Buford 2/2 Marc Bulger 2/2 Dick Butkus (HOF) 2/2 (donation), 2/2 (donation) Nick Buoniconti (HOF) 1/1 Kevin Butler signed 4/4, 2/2 John Cappelletti 3/3 Harry Carson (HOF) 1/1, 2/2, 2/2 Dallas Clark 2/2, 1/1(photo), 2/2, 2/2 Austin Collie 2/2 (photos) Doug Cosbie 1/1 Kirk Cousin 1/1 Bill Cowher 1/1, 1/1 Roger Craig 2/2 Dante Culpepper 2/2 Randall Cunningham 2/2 (donation) David Cutcliffe 1/1 (email request) Willie Davis (HOF) 2/1 Dermontti Dawson (HOF) 1/1, 1/1 Joe DeLamielleure (HOF) 4/2 (donation) Jack Del Rio 2/2, 2/2 Ryan Diem 1/1 (also had Jeff Saturday sign card) Cris Dishman 2/2 Mike Ditka FAIL 0/1, 0/1, 0/1, 0/1 Art Donovan (HOF) 2/1 (donation) A.J. Duhe 3/3 Tony Dungy 1/1 Warrick Dunn 3/3 Tim Dwight 3/3 Bobby Engram 3/3 Boomer Esiason 1/2, 1/1 Vince Evans 1/1 Jim Everett 2/2 Gary Fencik 2/2, 1/1 (superbowl xx inscription added), 2/2 Coby Fleener 2/2 Dan Fouts (HOF) 2/2, 1/1 Leslie Frasier 2/2 Steve Fueller 2/2 Dennis Gentry 3/3 Jeff George 4/3, 4/4 Toby Gerhart 2/2 Frank Gifford (HOF) 2/2, 1/1, 1/1 Ernest Givens 2/2 Jerry Glanville 2/2 Mike Golic 2/2 Tony Gonzalez 2/2 Frank Gore 1/2 Bud Grant (HOF) 1/1 with "HOF 94" inscription Ahman Green 2/2 Trent Green 3/3 Bob Griese (HOF) 1/1 , 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 Russ Grimm (HOF) 3/3 Randy Grossman 2/2 Dan Hampton (HOF) 2/2, 1/1 Chris Hanburger (HOF) 2/2 with "HOF 2011" inscriptions and personalization, 2/2 Merton Hanks 2/2 Mike Hartenstine 1/1 Andy Heck 2/2 Bobby Herbert 2/2, 2/2 Ike Hilliard 2/2 Merril Hoge 3/3, 3/3 Santonio Holmes 2/2 Paul Hornung (HOF) 1/1 Desmond Howard 3/3 Jerry Hughes 1/1 Bobby Humphrey 2/2 Keith Jackson 2/2 *with donation* Rickey Jackson (HOF) 2/2 Joe Jacoby (HOF) 2/2 Sebastian Janikowski 2/2 Ron Jaworski 2/2 Roy Jefferson 3/2 Greg Jennings 1/1 Calvin Johnson 1/1 (photo) Paul Johnson 1/1 (email request) Charlie Joiner (HOF) 2/2, 3/3 Ed "Too Tall" Jones 1/1 Hassan Jones 2/2 Billy Kilmer 3/3 Bernie Kosar 3/3 Jim Lachey 2/2, 2/2 Greg Landry 2/2 Jim Langer (HOF) 2/2 Steve Largent (HOF) 1/1, 1/1 Yale Lary (HOF) 2/2, 0/1 donation required James Laurinaitis 2/2 Dick LeBeau (HOF) 3/3 Marv Levy 2/2 Mr. Ray Lewis 1/2 (with #52) inscribed Bob Lily (HOF) 1/2, 1/1, 1/1 Louis Lipps 3/3 Floyd Little FAIL-donation required Larry Little (HOF) 3/3 Neil Lomax 3/2 Chuck Long 3/3 Jake Long 2/2 Johnny Lujack 2/2 Bill Lynch 1/1 (email request) Tom Mack (HOF) 2/2 Tony Mandarich 2/2 Archie Manning 1/1 Peyton Manning 1/1, 1/1, 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 Gino Marchetti (HOF) 1/1, 1/1, 0/1 Todd Marinovich 3/3 Mike McCormack (HOF) 1/1 Ron McDole 2/2 Jim McMahon 3/3, 3/3 Steve McMichael 1/2, 1/1 Karl Mecklenburg 2/2 Heath Miller 2/2 Zach Miller 2/2 Warren Moon 2/3 (HOF) Lenny Moore (HOF) 2/2, 3/2 Nat Moore 2/2 Emery Moorehead 1/3, 2/2 Jim Mora 2/2 Stanley Morgan 1/1 Mercury Morris 3/3 Craig Morton 3/3 Jordy Nelson 2/2, 2/2 Ozzie Newsome (HOF) 3/3, 2/2 Ken O'Brien 3/3 Brock Osweiler 2/2 Jim Otto (HOF) 1/1 Steve Owens 2/2 Bill Parcells (HOF) 2/2 Ara Parseghian 1/1 Julius Peppers 1/1, 1/1 (photo), 1/1 Jethro Pugh 2/2 Tom Rathman 3/3 Andre Reed 4/4, 3/3, 3/3 Dan Reeves 2/2, 4/4 Ray Rice 2/2 (not sure if these are legit or ghost signed) Mark Richt 1/1 (email request) Jon Ritchie 2/2 Willie Roaf (HOF) 1/1 Andy Robustelli (HOF) 4/2, 4/2 Mike Rozier 2/2 Buddy Ryan 1/1 Mark Rypien 1/1 Mark Sanchez 2/2 Thomas Sanders 2/2 Jeff Saturday 2/1, 3/3 (5x7 and 4x4 photos that were taken at training camp) Gale Sayers (HOF) 1/1 (donation), 1/1 Mark Schlereth 3/3 Joe Schmidt (HOF) 1/1 Randy Shannon 1/1 (email request) Sterling Sharpe (HOF) 3/3 Don Shula (HOF)1/2 Phil Simms 3/3 Billy Sims 2/2, 2/1 Bruce Smith (HOF) 2/3 Brandon Spikes 1/1 Ken Stabler 2/2, 3/3 Bart Starr(HOF) 1/1, 1/1 Dwight Stephenson (HOF) 1/1, 1/2 Brandon Stokley 1/1 Pete Stoyanovich 3/3 Matt Suhey 2/2, 3/3 Lynn Swann HOF 1/1 Jacob Tamme 2/2 Lawrence Taylor (HOF) 2/2, 2/2 Julio Teheran 1/1 Joe Theismann 3/3, 2/2, 3/3 Kevin Thomas 2/2 Zach Thomas 2/2 Mick Tingelhoff 3/2 Mike Tomczak 2/2 Charley Trippi (HOF) 2/3, 2/2 Mark Van Eeghen 1/2 dave van horne 2/2 (with "HOF 2011 inscription) Adam Vinatieri 1/2 personalized, 1/1 photo Mike Vrabel 3/3 Tom Waddle 3/3, 1/1 Herschel Walker 2/3, 3/3, 1/1 Steve Walsh 1/3 Curt Warner 2/2 Joe Washington 2/2 Ricky Watters 1/1 Chris Weinke 3/3 Jason White 2/2 Roddy White 2/2 with full name personalizations Aeneas Williams 2/2 (bible inscription) Mario Williams 2/2, 1/1 Danny Wuerffel 3/3 Steve Young (HOF) 1/1 donation BASKETBALL: Coach Steve Alford (email request) 1/1 Nate "Tiny" Archibald (HOF) 2/2 Muggsy Bogues 3/3 Larry Brown 2/2 Calbert Cheaney 3/3 Coach Jim Calhoun (email request) 1/1 Coach Tom Crean (email request) 1/1 Cliff Hagan (HOF) 2/2 Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway 3/3 Tim Hardaway 3/3 Bailey Howell (HOF) 1/1 Bob Hurley Sr. 1/1 Coach Izzo (email request) 1/1 Jason Kidd 1/2 Bob Knight 1/1, 1/1, 1/1 Coach K (email request) 1/1 Clyde Lovellette (HOF) 1/1 Reggie Miller 2/2 Dirk Nowitzki 1/1 Charles Oakley 2/2 Greg Oden 2/2 Robert Parish (HOF) 3/3, 3/3 Gary Payton 1/1 Arnie Risen (HOF) 1/1 Dolph Schayes (HOF) 1/1 Shaq 1/1 Keith Smart 2/1 (photos) John Stockton 1/1 Dick Vitale (HOF) 2/2 Bobby Wanzer (HOF) 2/2 Jerry West (HOF) 1/1 Jay Wright (email request) 1/1 GOLF: Fred Couples 1/1 Chris DiMarco 2/2 Justin Leonard 3/3 Craig Stadler 2/2 Steve Stricker 2/2 Lee Trevino 2/2 OTHER SPORTS: Jennie Finch 1/1 Greg Louganis 2/2 Cat Osterman 2/2 Micky Ward 2/2 (added "The Fighter" inscription on both) NON SPORTS: Anthony Bourdain 2/2 Jimmy Buffett 2/2, 2/2 *sent to venue..."Best Wishes" inscription on cd covers Nancy Cartwright 1/1 Billy Crystal 1/1 Robert Duvall 3/3 Robert Englund 1/1 Ron Ferdinand 1/1 (Dennis the Mennace sketch) Guy Fieri 1/1, 2/2 Zach Galifianakis 2/2 photos with "bad" inscription Sammy Hagar 2/1 Bela Karolyi 2/2 Andrew Lincoln 2/2 8x10 photos with inscriptions John Mellencamp 2/2 Jim Nantz (with "CBS" inscribed) Leslie Nielsen 2/2 Woody Paige (email request) 1/1 Betsy Palmer 1/1 Daniel Radcliffe 1/1 PTI Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser 1/1 Martin Sheen 1/1 Mort Walker 1/1 (Beetle Bailey sketch) Eli Wallach 2/2, 1/1 Henry Winkler 2/2 Last edited by iuhoosierbb; 03-18-2013 at 01:14 PM. |
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i also sent one to coach K... did he send back an email confirmation? I sent one to mack brown and they replied in like 45 minutes...
I am sending out a load for spring training. Probably the only good chance at actually getting some of these guys...
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I was out of town for the weekend...I had the following waiting for me:
Ken Stabler 2/2 black sharpie (14 days) Bobby Doerr 3/3 with HOF 86 inscription blue sharpie (14 days) Bobby Thomson 2/2 (one card, one index card personalized) blue fine sharpie (7 days) Chris Weinke 3/3 signed in black sharpie (10 days) Billy Sims 2/2 black sharpie (with #20 inscription) 20 days Johnny Lujack 2/2 index cards signed in blue ballpoint pen (Personalized and inscribed Heisman '47) Mack Brown (personalized an 8x10 in black sharpie and sent a team picture and other stuff from email request) 5 days NON SPORTS: Martin Sheen- personalized an 8x10 picture with other inscriptions (10 days) Jimmy Buffett- personalized a cd insert to me and my wife in black sharpie...also sent another 8x10 black and white preprint picture....just saw him in concert so I was pretty psyched about this one!! Fins up!! (21 days) |
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Today's mail bought:
Joe Theismann: 3/3 signed in black sharpie 13 days (there was a note saying that he would be requiring a donation to St. Judes in the future and sign a maximum of 2 items) Harry Carson 1/1 signed in black fine sharpie (inscribed HOF 2006) 10 days My first spring training success...Welington Castillo Cubs catcher 2/2 (he put one on top of the other before the ink dried and some stuck to the back of the other and smeared one of the autos) 20 days |
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Did Cey charge? I'd like the addy too, via PM! Thanks! |
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Today's mail included:
Herschel Walker 2/3 with #34 inscribed. I only got back 2 cards...I think one of my cards got mixed up in someone elses mail, since I know Walker has signed three or more items for others. 23 days. Bill Lynch (Indiana University football coach) sent me a personalized 8X10 picture with GO IU! inscribed. This was through the Indiana University football email. 3 days. Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser sent me back an autographed 8x10 personalized with "Cheers" inscribed. Signed in silver sharpie. 13 days. Peyton Manning sent back what looks like a preprint autograph on a 5x7 photo...my card was returned unsigned. All in all today was a good mail day! |
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Today was a good mail day for me:
Curtis Granderson: Did not sign my card, but enclosed a nice silver signed postcard in his new Yankee uniform. 10 days. Desmond Howard 3/3 signed in black sharpie with jersey number. 15 days. Matt LaPorta 1/1 Personalized and signed in black sharpie. 10 days. I find it funny that the two spring training responses I got back were both in the last batch I sent out just over a week ago. I have not had the best successes this spring training thus far....hopefully many more to roll in as spring training winds down! |
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when you do this do you send the picture or what?
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A success and failure today...
Chone Figgins signed 2/3 in black sharpie. C/O spring training. 10 days. Mike Ditka's came back return to sender with his name and address scribbled out?? So I am guessing he didn't want it! At least I got my cards and return envelope back usable. |
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