Showing posts with label Fleer Pro Cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fleer Pro Cards. Show all posts

Friday, July 12, 2024

Joe Aversa


In May of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Joe Aversa. I found an address and sent him my card and a letter.


Seventeen days later my card came back signed and he included a note.


Joe signed a 1994 Fleer Pro Cards St. Petersburg Cardinals Team Set card #2589.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=aversa001jos

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Matt Allen


In March of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Matt Allen. I found an address and sent him my card and a letter.


Fourteen days later my card came back signed and he included a note back.


Matt signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards West Palm Beach Expos Team Set card #1342.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=allen-001ste

Friday, April 26, 2024

Kevin Alger


In March of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Kevin Alger. I found an address and sent him my card and a letter.


Nineteen days later my card came back signed.

Kevin signed a 1994 Fleer Pro Cards Clearwater Phillies Team Set card #2517.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=alger-001kev

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Tim Pugh


In March of 2021, I was looking for cards to mail out and I saw on the back of Tim Pugh's card that his birthday was less than a week away (March 14th), so I decided to look him up and I found his address and sent him my card and the following letter.


Twenty days later my card came back signed.

Tim signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards Batavia Clippers Team Set card #3144.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=pugh--002tim

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Tom Vilet


In March of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Tom Vilet. I found an address and sent him my card and a letter.


Nine days later my card came back signed.

Tom signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards Clearwater Phillies Team Set card #2698.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=vilet-001tho

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Bryan Wiegandt


In March of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Bryan Wiegandt. I had seen many players from this set play in Clearwater, Florida during spring training and or Instructional League but I didn't recall ever seeing him in person. So, nearly 30 years later, I discovered that he was a mortgage lender in Kentucky, so I wrote him a letter.


Seven days later my card came back signed and he included a note back.


Bryan signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards Martinsville Phillies Team Set card #3486.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=wiegan001bry

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Joe Ganote


In February of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Joe Ganote. I discovered that he was the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director in Louisiana and I found an address to his office, so I sent him my card and a letter.


Seventeen days later my card came back signed.

Joe signed a 1992 Fleer Pro Cards Dunedin Blue Jays Team Set card #1993.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ganote001joh

Saturday, February 3, 2024

Laurence Heisler


In January of 2021, I decided to seek out an address for Laurence Heisler. I found his place of employment, so I wrote him a letter and sent my card.


Six days later my card came back signed and he included his own note.


Laurence signed a 1994 Fleer Pro Cards card #2523.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=heisle001lau

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Jay Maldonado


In October of 2020, I decided to seek out an address for Jay Maldonado. I sent him my card and the following letter.


Sixteen days later my card came back signed.

Jay signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #3970.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=maldon001j--

Friday, December 29, 2023

Keith Black


On October 26, 2020, I came up with another TTM challenge for myself. This one I called "The Color Wheel Challenge." I sent cards to five random baseball players with colorful last names.


I found Keith Black's address on my own and sent him my card and a letter.


Eight days later my card came back signed and he included a nice note.


Keith signed a 1994 Fleer Pro Cards card #2590.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=black-001gre

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Mark Steffens


On September 10, 2020, I decided to go through these 2 alphabetical boxes of baseball cards and pull random cards out. I would then look to see if I could find a mailing address online to send a card to.

I ended up writing and mailing out 11 letters that day. All addresses that I looked up myself, not listed on an autograph database, as far as I could tell.

I found what looked to be a legitimate address for Mr. Steffens at a company that he was CEO of, so I wrote him a letter and included my card.

Sixteen days later my card came back signed. He even included a note of his own.
Mark signed a 1992 Fleer Pro Cards card #2071.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=steffe001mar

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Orlando Munoz


I met him at Paul Owens Training Facility at Carpenter Complex, the Philadelphia Phillies spring training facility in Clearwater, Florida in 2018.

Orlando signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #78.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=munoz-003orl

Monday, February 22, 2021

Michael Hardge


On January 23, 2018, Tyrone Horne posted the following on his Twitter account:


I recognized Mike Hardge's name right away and knew that I had a card of him, so that same week I looked up the radio station's address and sent him an autograph request.


14 days later my card came back signed and he also included a letter of his own.


Michael signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #1347.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hardge001mic

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Ramon Zapata


I met him at a Minor League game at Paul Owens Training Facility at Carpenter Complex in Clearwater, Florida in 2017, when the GCL Tigers East, whom he was the hitting coach for, came to play the GCL Phillies.

Ramon signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #1556.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=zapata001ram

Monday, June 22, 2020

Bob Herold


I met him at a Minor League game at Paul Owens Training Facility at Carpenter Complex in Clearwater, Florida in 2017, when the GCL Pirates, whom he was managing, came to play the GCL Phillies.

Bob signed a 1992 Fleer Pro Cards card #2978.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=herold001rob

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Jorge Velandia


I met him at Paul Owens Training Facility at Carpenter Complex, the Philadelphia Phillies spring training facility in Clearwater, Florida in 2015.

Jorge signed a 1994 Fleer Pro Cards card #3047.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/velanjo01.shtml

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Roly DeArmas


I met him at Paul Owens Training Facility at Carpenter Complex, the Philadelphia Phillies spring training facility in Clearwater, Florida in 2015.

Roly signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #2700.

Two days later, I had Darold Knowles sign the card while signing autographs for free at the Tampa Bay Rays Fan Fest at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.



It was actually my second time getting Darold's autograph. I just wanted it to complete the card.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=dearma001rol

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/knowlda01.shtml

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Edwin Hurtado

I met him at Carpenter Complex, the Philadelphia Phillies spring training facility in Clearwater, Florida in 2001.

Edwin signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #3969.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hurtaed01.shtml

Friday, February 24, 2017

Brian Looney

I met him at Carpenter Complex, the Philadelphia Phillies spring training facility in Clearwater, Florida in 2000.

Brian signed a 1993 Fleer Pro Cards card #1335.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/loonebr01.shtml

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Blas Cedeno

I met him at a Minor League Clearwater Phillies game at Jack Russell Memorial Stadium in Clearwater, Florida in 1999.

Blas signed a 1994 Fleer Pro Cards card #3028.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=cedeno001bla