favorite thru the mail autographs

[Case12]

Only sports ttm I tried was ball forBob Horner. He sent the open box back unsigned (with my return postage to boot).. I was mad at that fat guy :-)

Non-sports favorite: Jane Seymour

[todeen]

I was 12 when I mailed Monte Irvin a baseball. He signed it, sent it back, and enclosed a note saying he had a signing fee. It was like $10. He asked me politely to send a check back to him. I thought that was really classy.

I also sent Aaron Boone, while he was playing, multiple cards. I was 13ish. I saw him play in Billings MT at short-season A ball, and I had his minor league cards. Every card I sent him was eventually signed and returned.

[ocjack]

In the mid-sixties, when I was young and naive, I sent a letter to Mickey Mantle (my hero) asking him to autograph a few cards. I can't remember which cards I sent, but I do know they included some Bowman as well as Topps.

Needless to say, I never received a reply. Foolishly, I sent a second letter and requested that he at least return the cards I sent. hahaha

I read subsequent articles that said he would throw out the envelopes after giving any cards to his kids.

Maybe I should send his kids a letter?

[cnote08]

Originally Posted by todeen

I was 12 when I mailed Monte Irvin a baseball. He signed it, sent it back, and enclosed a note saying he had a signing fee. It was like $10. He asked me politely to send a check back to him. I thought that was really classy.



I also sent Aaron Boone, while he was playing, multiple cards. I was 13ish. I saw him play in Billings MT at short-season A ball, and I had his minor league cards. Every card I sent him was eventually signed and returned.

I wrote to Irvin around the same age and I now remember the nice note asking for money. That was a total no-brainer. I was happy to do it. I also recall Johnny Vander Meer signed my card, included a typed note that has ALSO signed asking for something like $3. Also a no-brainer...


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[theshleps]

I remember in the mid to late 60's getting back from Jackie Robinson, Ted Williams, most of the other living HOFers and sent to widows and got check cuts back. Unfortunately it was the 60's and I lost interest and sold it all. Since starting up again in 2000 my son and I started writing (we stopped 10 years ago). Tom Brady signed 3 cards for my son back in 2000 TTM

[whitehse]

In the mid to late '70's I had heard from someone who actually sends cards away to old ball players and gets their autographs sent back to them. As a 15 year old who ate, slept and drank baseball history I was shocked that I could send a card to King Carl Hubbell, Yogi Berra and others and get an autograph sent back to me. The whole idea of TTM autographs was so new and foreign to me but one I jumped in with both feet.

Probably my best return was Joe DiMaggio. When I received this card back I was never sure if it was truly Joe D's auto as I heard his sister was a big signer of his cards. I had two people I knew to be baseball autograph experts look at my card and they both indicated it was a genuine signature. I sent it away to PSA not for their authentication but for their encapsulation as this was something I wanted to share with my kids without it getting destroyed in the process.

I received many autographs from the greats in the mail but I think, tome, the DiMaggio was my best return as he was just so much of a legendary figure in my young mind at the time.

[PowderedH2O]

I haven't written in decades. I have received thousands of autographs through the mail, many of whom are Hall of Famers. My two favorites are these: 1) Hank Gathers sent a personal letter to me about two weeks before he passed away on the court. 2) I collected Olympics autographs hard for about 15 years. When I got Fanny Blankers-Koen to sign for me (way before the internet), I was thrilled beyond belief.

[mantleman]

I just sold a large portion of my fathers autograph and card collection. While going through it I noticed some items that were his as a kid from the late 50's, early 60's. I pulled them out of the collection so they wouldn't be sold and so that I could keep them (in the family). They are in pretty rough shape but they are postcards that were mailed to Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe in 1960 and subsequently returned signed. The autos are pretty faint now but they represent a great family item.