A Third TTM Success From Scott Bailes

While going through my boxes, I found even more cards of Scott Bales so I could send a third TTM request to him.  The cards I got back were all junk wax era cards, but there's nothing wrong with that.  Above is a 1990 Donruss that turned out nicely.

Above are cards from 1990 Fleer, 1992 Fleer, 1991 Score and 1988 Donruss.  Somewhere i have a partial 1990 Fleer set.  Who knows where that is.  Otherwise, I'd have a lot more of them in the autograph album. 

I mailed to Bailes on November 19 and got the cards back on December 6 for a 17-day TAT. 

2021 National Free Signer - Ron Kittle

Ron Kittle was another of the free signers at the National.  I had recently gotten him TTM, so I was short on some cards.  I had wanted him on this 1991 Crown Orioles card, so I had it put aside, and it was easy to locate.

I also found this 1990 Fleer of Kittle in a random box.  I haven't gotten many of these signed, though.  I have a partial set of 1990 Fleer around the house somewhere, but I have no idea where I put the box.

The 1990 Fleer looks great signed.  Kittle was nice, but he wasn't signing his 1984 Topps card for anyone.  I overheard him saying that he hated that card, and the photo was ugly.  Several players refuse to sign certain cards for various reasons.  It's kind of funny hearing some of the reasons, but for set builders, it hurts sometimes.  I think he did sign one for someone who put some additional money down for Kittle's charity, so the 84 Topps can be had, for a price.

TTM Success - Donn Pall

Donn Pall was a player who had been in my box probably since I first put it together and organized it for TTMs.  For whatever reason, I kept bypassing him and kept sending to other players, when I finally decided to get his cards out in the mail.  The above 1993 Topps Stadium Club White Sox was a unique card in the box that I really wanted to send.  In the end, I have no idea what took me so long, but here we are with a success.

The only drawback to the success was that this card, the one I really wanted to see come back, was damaged in transit.  It is hard to see from the scan, but the bottom left corner took a major hit.  It will be forever protected in my binder from here on out, but I hate that it got damaged in the first place.  I have been lucky that my hundreds of cards come back safely, so I can't complain too much.

I sent off four Topps cards, a 1989, 1990, 1992 and 1993.  The 1992 is hard to see the signature in person, but the scan picked it up.

Finally, here is a 1990 Fleer.  I had a big box of these somewhere, but can't seem to find them.  These are really clean cards and look great when signed.  I think the box is shoved under a bed somewhere, so I hope to find them sometime.

Pall (b. 1962) played in the majors from 1988 to 1994 and 1996 to 1998 for the White Sox, Phillies, Yankees, Cubs and Marlins.  He had a career record of 24-23 with 278 strike outs and a 3.63 ERA.

I mailed to Pall on January 8 and got the cards back on February 15, for a 38-day TAT.

TTM Success - Mark Eichhorn

Just plugging along, getting my TTM success posted and here is a success from a former Oriole.  I got 6 cards back from Mark Eichhorn.  I added yet another 1987 to the album with the card, here.

I sent off two other Topps cards, this 1992 and 1995.  I didn't have but two cards of Eichhorn as an Oriole, and the 1995 was the only Topps year that I had.  I have a ton of 1995s to send out, still.  It really helped that I had those sorted by number and was able to pull out everyone who signed TTM.

I kind of neglect Fleer, even though I talked about how much I liked some of their sets the other day.  The 1991 Fleer cards always look nice when signed.  I don't believe I have gotten very many 1990s signed, though.  I don't keep track of any other brand but Topps base, so who knows.  I may count up everything someday, but that won't be today.

Finally, here is a 1995 Score showing Eichhorn in an O's jersey.  I've said before that I really like this set, and I was really happy with how this card turned out.

Eichhorn (b. 1960) played in the majors from 1982, 1986 to 1994 and 1996 for the Blue Jays, Braves, Angels and Orioles.  He had a career record of 48-43 with 640 strike outs and a 3.00 ERA.  He won the World Series with the Blue Jays in 1992 and 1993.

I mailed to Eichhorn on November 14 and got the cards back on February 10, for an 88-day TAT.