TTM success thread

[scmavl]

Andre Dawson has the signature of a gentleman. I need to send him something to sign. Very impressive.

I've only done three TTMs but have a 100% success rate so far:

Carl Erskine


Russ Kemmerer


And Steve Garvey, who signed two of his RC for me (Carl and Russ were just replies to letters).

[HRBAKER]

For the past several years I have bought these "cards" in small groups and sent them off ttm for autos. I am up to 115 different and have a few dupes that I wold trade for others that I need. Here is a half dozen or so that I have gotten back in the last couple of months:

[cubsfan-budman]

Very cool stuff, thanks for sharing!

I have a few out right now that I have my fingers crossed for: Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Mark Grace.

I have Josh Hamilton out as well, but apparently he signs everything in December, after the season, so I don't imagine I'll have that one back until next year.

[cubsfan-budman]

Just a quick update, I got back Billy Williams, Bob Uecker, Red Schoendienst and Wade Boggs.

Unfortunately, also had my first failure, as Ernie Banks sent mine back to me RTS!

Was really looking forward to that one!

[yanks12025]

I sent two photos out to chris chambliss, hopefully he'll sign them.

[MacDice]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

I sent two photos out to chris chambliss, hopefully he'll sign them.

He is usually pretty good but takes a couple of months....

[kmac32]

Originally Posted by cubsfan-budman

Just a quick update, I got back Billy Williams, Bob Uecker, Red Schoendienst and Wade Boggs.

Unfortunately, also had my first failure, as Ernie Banks sent mine back to me RTS!

Was really looking forward to that one!

Really suprised at that from Ernie. Of course I was at Cubs camp but he signed a ball, a card, a photo, and a book for me. We even called my wife and he talked with her for about 5 minutes. Was quite an experience.

[isaac2004]

Is there a list somewhere with the players that have TTM fees and what they are?

[cubsfan-budman]

my suggestion is to hit up www.sportscardforum.com

they have a free TTM database. this is what i use.

there's also a pretty cool list on their main autograph forums of players that charge a fee and what the charge is...its not perfectly up-to-date, but generally pretty good.

there are other sites that have this info as well, but afaik, they all charge some fee. this one is community-grown and free. doesn't have 100% of the players that you want, but usually the community can fill in the blanks if you ask.