All Purpose Mets Memorabilia Thread 2009

[Guest Kong76]

I thought we had something like this, maybe I'm think of the ebay thread
in the Member Promo Forum.

As I said in another thread, my wife met a few ex-Mets last night at Yonkers
Raceway. A couple of people from her office go to eat, bet on $2 races and
they have video slots now to compete with the Indian reservations in Con-
necticut. I'm sure you all encourage your spouses to go out gambling on a
weeknight in today's economy but that can be the subject of another thread.

Anyways, she told me that Art "Shamansky" and Ron "Swobosomething" were
making an appearance so I gave her some cards. I didn't really think she'd wait
on lines (I know I'm not terribly fond of it) but she made a nice score. Turns out
Harrelson and Kranepool were there too!






I'm not all that much of an autograph guy, but I'm thinking I may get the
bug to start trying to get signed 60's and 70's Mets cards ... that '67 Mets
Maulers card is cool and the solo Swoboda is signed really nicely.

[ashie62]

Real nice..I'm a big fan of the 1967 Topps set with its vivid coloring..The Maulers card is sweet...Then Seaver Rooke, Cleon with the Rookie trophy, Krane..great memories

[Guest themetfairy]

KB did well for you - nice!

[Guest Kong76]

Yeah, I guess I'll keep her (who else could put up with me 24/7?)

Googled the event, that's her in the front of the line in the lavendar jacket:

http://www.harnesslink.com/www/Article.cgi?ID=70142

[stevejrogers]

Did KB mention to Eddie that her hubby runs a website named in his honor?

[seawolf17]

Bang. I have to cull some stats on my autograph collection. I'm at 196 different Mets autographed cards, and should hit 200 this week.

(Kase -- you willing to part with one of those Shamskys? He's high on my list of needs.)

[Guest Kong76]

Funny, KB said that Art was the friendliest of the three. Rocky wouldn't sign
the second card (the mauler one) and said one sig only. She complained to
a woman who was orchestrating things and the lady brought card over to him
and he signed it.

Sea, I'll trade you the signed 1970 Art for a signed card of another late 60's
or early 70's Met that you might have dubs of. Or I could just roll over and
ask for an equally or better centered 70 Art, but check your inventory first!

Steve, Ed has no interest in shore birds ... I've asked him several times.

[Guest Edgy DC]

="SteveJRogers":2dsklxtf]Did KB mention to Eddie that her hubby runs a website named in his honor?[/quote:2dsklxtf] Krane would turn to his lawyer in about a second.

seawolf17 Feb 06 2009 09:10 AM

Thanks - the only extra Mets I have right now are Robin Ventura, Tim Bogar, and Matthew Lindstrom. Want any of those? If not, I can scrounge up someone older.

metirish Feb 06 2009 09:57 AM

Really cool that your missus would stand inline for you , especially given that she went for different reasons.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 06 2009 06:27 PM

Those of you who collect autographs: How do you go about getting them? I keep getting e-mails from people asking me how they can get so-and-so's autograph, and I usually tell them to try writing to them c/o the Mets, but I don't promise that that will work. I got one just today from someone desperate to get Lee Mazzilli's autograph. A few months ago I would have told him to write to Lee at SNY, but it's probably too late for that now.

Kong76 Feb 06 2009 06:46 PM

sea: Thanks - the only extra Mets I have right now are Robin Ventura, Tim Bogar, and Matthew Lindstrom <<< I don't really need those, I want to focus on 60's and 70's if I start doing it. If you need an Art to help complete your 200 I'm glad to help. You can owe me an unsigned '70 Art card payable sometime during the season. Send me your mail info.

metsguyinmichigan Feb 06 2009 06:49 PM

That's an awesome story! And your wife should be sainted!

Kong76 Feb 06 2009 06:58 PM

She's an angel, sainthood is a stretch. Oh, and for those who haven't met her ... that's not really her in the lavender jacket. I wanted to see if she'd lurk and kvetch about me mocking her.

seawolf17 Feb 06 2009 07:01 PM

Thanks, Kase. E-mail on the way. A lot of guys -- mostly recent/current guys, but plenty of older guys too -- have "certified" autographs that the card companies have released over the last ten years or so. But there are also a lot of players, past and present, who will sign "ttm" (through the mail), care of their home addresses or work addresses or whatever. Not so much for your huge stars -- Tom Seaver's not signing your card -- but your Bobby Vees and Chuck Taylors and Bob Bailors and Bruce Boisclairs are usually happy to sign and return what you send, provided you include a SASE. There are plenty of sites (StarTiger, SCN) where you can pay for addresses; some are better than others. Over at The Bench[/url:29h1jvu3], where I'm also a mod, we have a TTM database, and a forum where folks can request addresses and share successes. (Among other things.) As I said, I'm pushing 200 autographed cards now; it's a fun extension for my baseball card collection, and gives me something to put in a frame and hang on the wall. For example: > Some of those are certified, but of half them (Matlack, Snider, Stearns, Weis, Charles, Hebner, Garrett, Sadecki, Hickman, Foli, Millan, Pacella, Cisco, and Apodaca) I've gotten through the mail.

seawolf17 Feb 11 2009 07:34 PM

Reached 200 Mets and Mets-related autographed cards today (actually 201, as Del Unser and Dave Telgheder both came in today). Some stats, from Alfonzo to Zachry: * 1962 Mets: 7 (Cisco, Craig, Hickman, Hunter, Jackson, Kranepool, Thomas) * 2008 Mets: 21 (Anderson, Beltran, Casanova, Castillo, Castro, Chavez, Church, Delgado, Easley, Heilman, Kunz, Maine, Pedro, Ollie, JReyes, Santana, Smith, Stokes, Tatis, Wagner, Wright) * Non-Met Mets: 4 (the late Brian Cole, Ralph Kiner, minor leaguer Curtis Pride, WFAN's Steve Somers) * Non-players: 4 (Davey, Oberkfell, Bill Robinson, Stottlemyre) * Guys Who Don't Count In The 200... Yet: 6 (Redding, Fartinez, Ike Davis, Scott Moviel, JJ Putz, Cory Sullivan) * Incoming: 8 (Burgos, Coleman, Ellis, Pelfrey, Person, Jason Phillips, Piersall, Shamsky) * Gone: 5 (Cole, McGraw, Milner, Bill Robinson, Ellis when he gets here) * Longest Alphabetical Run: 4 (Hausman-Hearn-Hebner-Heep, Weathers-Webb-Weis-Wendell, Yoshii-Young-Youngblood-Zachry) Note: Adding Jack Heidemann would link Aaron Heilman and make a 6. * Largest Alphabetical Gap: 21 (Melvin Mora to Randy Niemann. That's a weird dead zone, as we skip another ten Mets after Niemann until we get to Charlie O.) * Alomars: 0/3 * Castillos: 1/4 (Luis) * Ernandezes: 2/8 (Keith H, Sid F) * Francos: 2/3 (John, Matt) * Johnsons: 2/7 (Davey, HoJo) * Joneses: 3/8 (Bobby, Chris, Cleon) * Millers: 2/5 (Dyar, Keith) * Smiths: 2/5 (Joe, Dick) Living CPF Top 100 Mets I'm missing: 5 Piazza, 29 Glavine, 38 Ojeda, 52 Gentry, 53 Henderson, 57 McAndrew, 62 Lockwood, 64 Hunt, 65 Fisher, 67 Saberhagen, 68 Myers, 69 Lynch, 72 Gilkey, 73 Aguilera, 81 Viola, 85 Murray, 86 Falcone, 87 Sisk, 88 Burnitz, 92 Flynn, 94 Lance Johnson, 98 Zeile

[seawolf17]

Thanks - the only extra Mets I have right now are Robin Ventura, Tim Bogar, and Matthew Lindstrom. Want any of those? If not, I can scrounge up someone older.

[metirish]

Really cool that your missus would stand inline for you , especially given that she went for different reasons.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Those of you who collect autographs: How do you go about getting them? I keep getting e-mails from people asking me how they can get so-and-so's autograph, and I usually tell them to try writing to them c/o the Mets, but I don't promise that that will work.

I got one just today from someone desperate to get Lee Mazzilli's autograph. A few months ago I would have told him to write to Lee at SNY, but it's probably too late for that now.

[Guest Kong76]

sea: Thanks - the only extra Mets I have right now are Robin Ventura, Tim Bogar, and Matthew Lindstrom <<<

I don't really need those, I want to focus on 60's and 70's if I start doing it.
If you need an Art to help complete your 200 I'm glad to help. You can owe
me an unsigned '70 Art card payable sometime during the season.

Send me your mail info.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That's an awesome story! And your wife should be sainted!

[Guest Kong76]

She's an angel, sainthood is a stretch.

Oh, and for those who haven't met her ... that's not really her in the lavender
jacket. I wanted to see if she'd lurk and kvetch about me mocking her.

[seawolf17]

Thanks, Kase. E-mail on the way.

A lot of guys -- mostly recent/current guys, but plenty of older guys too -- have "certified" autographs that the card companies have released over the last ten years or so. But there are also a lot of players, past and present, who will sign "ttm" (through the mail), care of their home addresses or work addresses or whatever. Not so much for your huge stars -- Tom Seaver's not signing your card -- but your Bobby Vees and Chuck Taylors and Bob Bailors and Bruce Boisclairs are usually happy to sign and return what you send, provided you include a SASE.

There are plenty of sites (StarTiger, SCN) where you can pay for addresses; some are better than others. Over at The Bench[/url:29h1jvu3], where I'm also a mod, we have a TTM database, and a forum where folks can request addresses and share successes. (Among other things.)

As I said, I'm pushing 200 autographed cards now; it's a fun extension for my baseball card collection, and gives me something to put in a frame and hang on the wall. For example:

>

Some of those are certified, but of half them (Matlack, Snider, Stearns, Weis, Charles, Hebner, Garrett, Sadecki, Hickman, Foli, Millan, Pacella, Cisco, and Apodaca) I've gotten through the mail.

[seawolf17]

Reached 200 Mets and Mets-related autographed cards today (actually 201, as Del Unser and Dave Telgheder both came in today). Some stats, from Alfonzo to Zachry:

* 1962 Mets: 7 (Cisco, Craig, Hickman, Hunter, Jackson, Kranepool, Thomas)
* 2008 Mets: 21 (Anderson, Beltran, Casanova, Castillo, Castro, Chavez, Church, Delgado, Easley, Heilman, Kunz, Maine, Pedro, Ollie, JReyes, Santana, Smith, Stokes, Tatis, Wagner, Wright)
* Non-Met Mets: 4 (the late Brian Cole, Ralph Kiner, minor leaguer Curtis Pride, WFAN's Steve Somers)
* Non-players: 4 (Davey, Oberkfell, Bill Robinson, Stottlemyre)
* Guys Who Don't Count In The 200... Yet: 6 (Redding, Fartinez, Ike Davis, Scott Moviel, JJ Putz, Cory Sullivan)
* Incoming: 8 (Burgos, Coleman, Ellis, Pelfrey, Person, Jason Phillips, Piersall, Shamsky)
* Gone: 5 (Cole, McGraw, Milner, Bill Robinson, Ellis when he gets here)
* Longest Alphabetical Run: 4 (Hausman-Hearn-Hebner-Heep, Weathers-Webb-Weis-Wendell, Yoshii-Young-Youngblood-Zachry) Note: Adding Jack Heidemann would link Aaron Heilman and make a 6.
* Largest Alphabetical Gap: 21 (Melvin Mora to Randy Niemann. That's a weird dead zone, as we skip another ten Mets after Niemann until we get to Charlie O.)
* Alomars: 0/3
* Castillos: 1/4 (Luis)
* Ernandezes: 2/8 (Keith H, Sid F)
* Francos: 2/3 (John, Matt)
* Johnsons: 2/7 (Davey, HoJo)
* Joneses: 3/8 (Bobby, Chris, Cleon)
* Millers: 2/5 (Dyar, Keith)
* Smiths: 2/5 (Joe, Dick)

Living CPF Top 100 Mets I'm missing: 5 Piazza, 29 Glavine, 38 Ojeda, 52 Gentry, 53 Henderson, 57 McAndrew, 62 Lockwood, 64 Hunt, 65 Fisher, 67 Saberhagen, 68 Myers, 69 Lynch, 72 Gilkey, 73 Aguilera, 81 Viola, 85 Murray, 86 Falcone, 87 Sisk, 88 Burnitz, 92 Flynn, 94 Lance Johnson, 98 Zeile