After getting my Mark Buehrle return last week, I started wondering what other players people were most surprised to see show up in their mailbox. Now, seeing a couple of Andy Pettitte returns, I guess I will ask the question:
Who is the most surprising TTM success you have had, and why? Was it because they are a star player and you just didn't think they would? Because they're rumored not to sign free through the mail? Because it just took a long time? Some other reason?
I only have about a dozen or so, so I expect that my answer might change now that I have begun sending out requests daily. Certainly others will have better stories, but my most surprising was J.J. Hardy a few years ago. He was very popular here in Milwaukee, and was coming off his all-star season, so I figured I had that working against me. I sent out to Hardy and a few other less popular Brewers in April/May, and received all of them back within a month or so with the exception of Hardy.
Well, the season came and went, and we ended up going to the big Brewers winter event on a Sunday in January of the next year. We got there very early in the morning just to get in line for a Hardy autograph, and were successful in getting one. Also got a few others, so was a pretty good day and I was happy to finally get my Hardy autograph. Well, the next day, guess what showed up in the mailbox later that week? My J.J. Hardy TTM auto. I don't know if he signed a bunch that Sunday while he was waiting around to go to the autograph stage, or if he did it on the flight to Milwaukee (I think he lives in Phoenix), or maybe he had just left them in Milwaukee and picked them up after the event. At any rate, I finally got it about 9 months later.
Anyone else want to share?
Who is the most surprising TTM success you have had, and why? Was it because they are a star player and you just didn't think they would? Because they're rumored not to sign free through the mail? Because it just took a long time? Some other reason?
I only have about a dozen or so, so I expect that my answer might change now that I have begun sending out requests daily. Certainly others will have better stories, but my most surprising was J.J. Hardy a few years ago. He was very popular here in Milwaukee, and was coming off his all-star season, so I figured I had that working against me. I sent out to Hardy and a few other less popular Brewers in April/May, and received all of them back within a month or so with the exception of Hardy.
Well, the season came and went, and we ended up going to the big Brewers winter event on a Sunday in January of the next year. We got there very early in the morning just to get in line for a Hardy autograph, and were successful in getting one. Also got a few others, so was a pretty good day and I was happy to finally get my Hardy autograph. Well, the next day, guess what showed up in the mailbox later that week? My J.J. Hardy TTM auto. I don't know if he signed a bunch that Sunday while he was waiting around to go to the autograph stage, or if he did it on the flight to Milwaukee (I think he lives in Phoenix), or maybe he had just left them in Milwaukee and picked them up after the event. At any rate, I finally got it about 9 months later.
Anyone else want to share?
