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ader s sports memorabilia droidtrader s sports memorabilia updates on my sports memorabilia collecting hobby including through the mail autograph successes and in person autograph signings feel free to email me with questions droidtrader gmail com blog archive 2026 104 august 8 cecil cooper ttm return steve blass ttm return 1972 sports illustrated m jim thome bobblehead joe mauer bobbleheads signed at fanhq wayne causey ttm return august vintage bobbleheads purchase johnny bench rookie card and john boog powell re dick estelle 1965 topps july 5 june 12 may 13 april 11 march 24 february 13 january 18 2025 215 december 16 november 20 october 21 september 17 august 15 july 16 june 17 may 19 april 18 march 20 february 16 january 20 2024 165 december 13 november 16 october 10 september 17 august 16 july 9 june 6 may 18 april 21 march 17 february 13 january 9 2023 146 december 10 november 11 october 11 september 13 august 16 july 11 june 12 may 12 april 16 march 14 february 9 january 11 2022 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ttm return i ve been working on three copies of this 1972 topps card one was completed today with this return and i ve got two to send off to fisk for him to complete next assuming fisk completes the two card i send him tomorrow i will have six copies of this card completed and one signed just by fisk this is a great card and it s very east to complete you can see the card signed for 150 or more but you can probably get it done ttm for less than 100 including the card price about 20 player signing fees 65 between the three of them and 10 for postage and shipping depending on how you choose to send it i mailed cards to garman and cooper with regular sases but use bubble mailers to send to fisk posted by droidtrader at 11 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 22 2026 steve blass ttm return 1972 sports illustrated magazine yesterday i received a nice return from mr steve blass who signed his 1972 sports illustrated cover as requested in just nine days i sent along a blue sharpie for him to use as well as 20 for him despite him not having a fee schedule he typically signs for no charge but i usually assume a player will appreciate the gesture of the fee even if they don t keep it i ve had a couple players return the money along with a brief note that they don t accept fees for signing but never really got the impression that i had offended them by offering the money i guess i d rather offend someone by offering the money when they don t want it than to not offer the money and have them feel i was taking advantage of their generosity by signing premium items for me for no charge posted by droidtrader at 4 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 20 2026 jim thome bobblehead after receiving my four joe mauer bobbleheads back yesterday i received another bobblehead back today this time it is the jim thome paul bunyan themed bobblehead from august 25 2008 this bobblehead wasn t a typical give away version given out at the gates before a game until they were gone this one was part of a special ticket package for that game i can t find the number of these bobbleheads that were made but based on the low number available on ebay only four right now and the high price i assume it was relatively low it s also possible that since people paid for it as part of a ticket package the purchasers specifically wanted the bobblehead to keep so few have been made for sale the giveaways however probably end up in the hands of people who didn t even know they were being given away and are happy to get 20 for it on ebay or craigslist rather than have it collect dust on their shelves there aren t any other modern bobbleheads that i ve paid this much for and i m referring to just the bobblehead not the signing fee i paid nearly twice as much for this bobblehead than i did for joe mauer s foco hall of fame bobblehead which i posted about yesterday as part of the four i got back from fan hq i need to do an inventory of the twins bobbleheads to see which ones i still need to get signed i am drawing the line at some point in time after which i won t collect any more of them i don t like the new ones as much as the simple old ones and i just don t feel the same connection to the players that i used to mainly because not very many of them stay with the team more than a couple of years this also makes it hard to get them signed along with the fact that there are very few opportunities to meet the players in person compared to even just a few years go posted by droidtrader at 11 46 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest joe mauer bobbleheads signed at fanhq i continue to be extremely impressed with the service at fanhq after receiving four bobbleheads back from their most recent joe mauer signing i spent a lot of time labeling these bobbleheads with very specific instructions regarding signature location ink color and authentication sticker placement i cut small sticky notes to size and used additional tape to help keep the notes in place while packing up the bobblehead and cramming it back into its original plastic and styrofoam packaging and into the original box that it came in i taped sticky notes on the brim of the caps helmets and wrote sign on the side of the helmet there so they couldn t assume i wanted them to sign there anyway my point is that fanhq strictly followed all of my instructions and even kept all of the labeling in place for the return trip home all of the beckett witnessed stickers were placed where i requested a very sharp silver ink was used i ve requested the name the maker so i can buy a few for my own use one of my previous orders to a different promoter had the authentication sticker placed on the rear of the player s helmet which is a common request however they had to move my sticky note that asked they put the auth sticker on the bottom of the bobble in order to put it there did they not read it did they read it and not care to keep this short story even longer i believe i have just one more bobblehead the cretin h s version to get signed to complete the five joe mauer bobblehead set that was given away during the 2019 season beyond that i believe i will have joe sign one of the early vintage bobbleheads i won t have any other players sign the same bobblehead meaning i ll keep it to just one signature per bobblehead but i might have other players probably limited to hall of famers or fan favorite players like kent hrbek or torii hunter sign one of the nine blue base bobbles i have from the 1961 1962 set posted by droidtrader at 12 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 17 2026 wayne causey ttm return at nearly 90 years old mr causey is one of the better ttm signers with a 97 success rate on scn and no fee he s a generous signer with an eleven year playing career that allows a collector like me plenty of opportunities to find vintage cards to send to him to sign as well as team cards and a few oddball cards like the 64 stand up and the 65 embossed his signature shows no sign of his age and puts the current players signatures to shame since it is actually readable and doesn t look like a second grader printed his name prior to learning cursive mr causey signed these four cards for me in just 10 days this was my tenth request to him since 2005 resulting in 33 signed cards over that period thank you mr causey posted by droidtrader at 5 49 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday august 11 2026 august vintage bobbleheads purchase this months bobblehead purchase included only four dolls but they were pretty expensive ones the most expensive one which shattered my record for the most spent on a single bobblehead by about 4x was the non moonface minneapolis twins mini version a small number of these mini bobbleheads with a magnet on the bottom to stick to your metal dashboard were printed with the word minneapolis instead of minnesota it was quickly corrected and the vast majority were released as the minnesota version i bought two dolls on green square bases which were made during a transition period between the white square base version and the green round base version only nine teams had their nodders released on these bases the senators and twins are two of those teams finally i added my first african american bobblehead to my collection with this very nice senators version posted by droidtrader at 5 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday august 10 2026 johnny bench rookie card and john boog powell return for being as slow as it has been lately today was a huge day at the mailbox i finally got my johnny bench 1968 topps rookie card signed my previous attempt last year resulted in the usps taking about 11 days to send my card a couple states over and i missed the cutoff but i was able to get it done and am happy with the results i had the jsa witnessed sticker on the back which they put on crooked i don t know why but that bothers me a little you had one job in my previous submission which arrived too late i had requested that he sign it above his head at the time i had seen many like that on ebay and thought it looked nice i know it looks a little squished beneath his face but it just seems like the right place to me now so that s the upside of having missed the first signing i will include this with my next authentication grading submission along with his 1969 topps which is a much nicer card than his 68 in my opinion i also received my boog powell items back today from the dugout zone they did a great job again i had sent these back in april since he was supposed to have a signing earlier in the year but it got postponed to august i had him sign his 1966 topps which i thought is just a nice card i m not working on the set although if i were to go back 15 or 20 years i probably would have included more of them along with my requests while working on the 1965 topps set the design is fairly simple but i like the colors they used in the areas for the name and team and the photos are better than most years i think i also had him sign a couple post season cards of which he has many he signed the 1970 topps american league playoff game 3 and the 1971 topps world series celebration card he signed the 1971 topps world champions orioles team card i should have been more specific and asked him to sign it bigger he signed it nicely and left room for others to sign it but i don t intend to have other players sign it i had brooks robinson sign that card as well like many old timers he avoided signing over the pictures of the players so it s a little hard to see i thought about having powell sign the same one as robinson but decided it was nice to have just brooks on it i miss sending my monthly request off to mr robinson that s about the frequency i was sending at the time he passed away it was getting harder and harder to find cards for him the last card i had powell sign was the 1972 topps mvp award card he was voted mvp in 1970 his tenth year in the big leagues at age 28 that seemed to be the peak of his career and his stats drop off after that with a bounce back in 1975 his first year with the indians i had and still have a lot of items for boog to sign i even have a bobblehead that for some reason i decided against sending he was pretty popular around 1969 1971 and i sent a couple magazines from that period the october 1969 sports illustrated has boog s teammate frank robinson on the cover i bought this magazine already signed with a psa dna authentication sticker on the inside cover the front cover has a fold out section and powell s photo is on it the medium staedtler struggled a bit to keep up with the fierce signature that powell provides he signed this one with his real first name john as well as his nickname i didn t ask for it that way but i like it as i mentioned the psa sticker under boog s photo is actually for robinson s signature on the front cover i also had him sign a copy of the 1970 all star sports magazine part of his signature gets lost in his black sleeve on this one which is a little unfortunate i think i ll send it off to koosman now i kind of have to right i also received more vintage bobbleheads which i ll post about separately in a day or two thank you to everyone who checks in on my blog now and then i appreciate that you take the time to see how i m spending my kids inheritance as i mentioned a while ago my wife and i finally bought a lakeside cabin and much of our spending has shifted to getting it furnished and updated a little but i hope to still send out a lot of ttm requests as well as the occasional paid signing even if i fail to send out many requests i ll try to update this blog frequently even if it s just 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