September & October 2002

10/29/2002

Rashaan Salaam

The 1994 Heisman trophy winner signed three cards for me care of his home address in only 3 weeks! Thus I end the month!

10/25/2002

Tony Gwynn

My Second Success from Tony c/o San Diego State! This one only took Two weeks! He signed both of my cards really nice in black sharpie

10/24/2002

Mike Munchak

Waited 14 months for this one but the 2001 HOF inductee came thru c/o home address! He signed my card in Black Sharpie! How on earth am I going to pick the right card for Scan of the Month to put in SP News?

10/23/2002

Ozzie Smith

The Wizard of Oz almost made me do a backflip when I opened this one up! I got this one in one month c/o the Baseball Hall of Fame!!! This auto is incredible!

Duke Snider

Duke signed all three of my items c/o his home address in three weeks! I didn't send any money along with this one like some others have been lately... Cool!

10/19/2002

Mark Brunell

Hadn't seen a success c/o email from him for quite a while so I was surprised to say the least! I emailed his official site and got this autographed testimony card in about 3 weeks... This is the same card most of you that sent out last year c/o Team address got... Awesome!

10/15/2002

Rick Fox

Rick signed for me much faster than some of the times I've seen lately. He only took three weeks to sign all four of my cards including an Italian rookie card! He signed c/o his home address in California (go figure)

Woody Durham

The Radio Voice of the North Carolina State Tar Heels, Mr. Durham sent me a nice 8x10 signed to me in two weeks c/o email

Mike Adras

The Head coach for the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks basketball team sent me a nice note wishing me a Happy Birthday... last month.. It took him one month to sign for me c/o email, but a friend of mine also got an autograph similar to this one in the mail today...

10/12/2002

Tony Gwynn

Tony! Tony! Tony! (ahem...) Mr. Gwynn signed for me in two months c/o San Diego State... He's the Head Baseball coach for them... Make sure you guys don't send so many that he stops signing like he did in his career... that would really stink to rob the chance for young collectors to get one of the greatest in the game... I better send again soon.  I also got an autograph from Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood yesterday but the only thing that would possibly make it Sports is the fact that he's listed as Celebrity Captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins...whatever.

10/07/2002

Xavier McDaniel

Back to the Grind today! X-Man Signed four cards for me c/o home address in only two weeks!

10/06/2002

Monsters Incorporated

I went to a card show today and stayed for the whole thing... It was well worth it and now I have 25 new things to show for it! (Finally the email successes are out of the latest 11 on the homepage!) This is by a long shot the most new things I've ever had to show for after a card show... Nobody was signing, It was just good fun and trading... I came out really good too!

Jochen Hecht
Jaroslav Modry
My first ever hockey autographs! Talk about hard to pronounce names!!! Well they aren't the worst of the barrel... That would be the card at the bottom of this update... I'll go ahead and get the Jersey Cards out of the way at the top...

Bruce Smith Jersey Card
Daunte Culpepper Jersey Card
Gary Payton Jersey Card
Shawn Marion Jersey Card
Speedy Claxton Jersey Card
Okay... Now for some people neither of us have ever heard of before.. but they were cheaper than $1 each... so what can I say?
Galen Young
Louis Bullock
Tyrone Washington
John Celestand
Chris Herren
Jeff Foster
DeVean George
There's More...
Eddie Lucas
Venson Hamilton
Melvin Levett
Bernard Gilkey It was Free! (Who is He?)
Greg Foster
Okay... now I'm done with the autographs nobody's heard of... Have fun? Here's the good stuff if you stuck around...
Gabe Kapler
Andre Miller #'d 3/500
Hoyt Wilhelm Certified Sig of the late Mr. Wilhelm..
Anthony Munoz Certified Sig of the early Mr. Munoz..
Andre Dawson
Wally Szczerbiak #'d 3/500

Okay... Now here's the best deal I got... I got a MJ Triple Black Diamond card at the start of the show for $1 and later found out it booked for $20... so I naturally traded it for a dual signed card...
Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje/Corey Maggette
That's All Folks... I'm tired and very grateful I didn't get anything else!

10/05/2002

Pete Carroll

Mr. Carroll is the head coach of the #19 USC Trojans, who are doing very well this season! He signed for me in only three weeks c/o email

10/04/2002

Elvis Grbac

Elvis was as popular a couple seasons ago as Tom Brady is now... When someone mentioned Elvis, you wondered which one... o.k. maybe I'm exaggerating his fall from stardom a little much... I just hope that doesn't happen to Brady... I sent this request a long time ago... and 19 months later "The King" came through with a signed 5x8! The pen didn't show up to great but what can I say? I sent this way back in March of last year c/o The Ravens team address...

Adrian "Little A-Train" Peterson

I was glad to get another S.A.S.E. in the mail today, this one from Chi-Town. Adrian signed all four of my cards for me in one month... this is a fun success to get! I sent to the Bears team address...

Don DeVoe

Navy's Basketball Coach sent me a Media Guide with his picture on the inside signed and personalized to wish me a Happy Birthday... He also sent along a team photo... Navy is the alma-mater of my favorite athlete of all time, David Robinson! Coach signed in only 20 days c/o email!

10/02/2002 (2)

Kurt Warner

Update on 10/04/2002... Forgotten S.A.S.E. found in mailbox from 10-02 mail day with autograph of his inside the drenched envelope... luckily it wasn't hurt in the least... I sent to the Ram's team address, It only took one month

10/02/2002

Dan McCarney

Iowa State has been on a Rampage lately! Beating teams at and above the level of  Nebraska (though it does'nt take much to lick the Cornhuskers this season...) Dan signed for me as you would probably guess... c/o email in only 10 days!

Fisher DeBerry

Future Air Force QB Matt of Sports Patrol? I don't think so, but Coach DeBerry asked me to send highlights of my playing skills to a scout of his... Hilarious I think... If you want to recruit a half way decent team, find the players yourself... don't recruit the geeky sports nuts that hound you for your autograph... Thanks for the sig by the way... :) Coach signed for me c/o email in 20 days!

9/30/2002

Lute Olson

Head coach of the Arizona Wildcats who by the way made it to the Sweet Sixteen last year... or rather last season... Lute sent me a team picture and personalized it, even including "Happy Birthday"! Nice Success and it only took only 9 days c/o email. But I'm aching to get another non-email success.. I will be going to a card show on the sixth so maybe I can pick up something (or maybe plural) interesting to update about...

9/27/2002

Rob Evans

The Basketball Coach for Arizona State signed for me in only six days c/o email!

I also got a no sig success from Penn University, They sent me a Media guide...

9/25/2002

Paul Hewitt

Paul sent me a signed 8x10 c/o email in only four days! He also sent at my request a picture of his best player  Tony Atkins and a bonus, four team schedules! Awesome! He's head coach for Georgia Tech!

9/20/2002

Terrell Davis

Terrell signed c/o Broncos Team addy in only 17 days! This card doesn't look nearly as cool as it does in person, Same set as the National Treasures I'd gotten signed by Jeff Blake last year.

Marcus Camby

Marcus! I hated him in the 1999 NBA Finals against my Beloved Spurs... But all he could win was game three anyhow... but he's alright now! I sent this out only 17 days ago c/o Denver Nuggets team addy... alright Camby!

9/17/2002

Tim Duncan - eBay!

I won this one about two months ago for $3.99 plus s/h and finally got it today... well its not the Skybox Metal signed card I was supposed to get but this one is awesome just the same in my opinion... It came with a serial # Certificate of Authenticy and Tim signed it in Gold Paint pen... the Spurs are my favorite team in the NBA and now I have all of my favorite Spurs autographs... David Robinson, Tony Parker, and Tim Duncan!

9/16/2002

Ryan Leaf

The big fuss about "The Leaf that turned into a Tree", well he actually in my opinion was "The Leaf that didn't turn into anything"... Not to hit on Ryan... His autograph was super hard to get and now I've got it so I'm happy... I'm surprised he stayed in the NFL so long... He signed two cards for me in 10 days c/o the Seattle Seahawks.

9/14/2002

Awesome Mail Day! I got a total of Seven envelopes with stuff from coaches.. although only four had autographs in them it was awesome! The no autograph envelopes were as follows..

Georgia Tech sent me a Huge Poster of team stars and Chan Gailey their coach and former coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

Jacksonville U. Sent me two 2002 media Guides

U of North Colorado sent me a media guide.. That stuff is cool.. but I like the other stuff better..

Bobby Bowden - Florida State

Bobby signed for me c/o email in 7 days!

Phil Bennett - Southern Methodist

Phil Signed for me c/o email in 7 days!

Mike Krzyzewski - Duke BKB Coach

Signed for me c/o email in 7 days!

Jeff Tedford - California Golden Bears

Jeff signed c/o email in 7 days.. could you guess?

9/13/2002

Eric Moulds

This outstanding reciever for the Buffalo Bills signed these three cards for me in only 12 days!

John Bunting - Pre-Print

John, the coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team that has put such greats into the NFL of late as #2 and #8 draft picks in the first round of this years draft. He didn't sign but sent a preprint to me in six days c/o email! Oh Well!

9/12/2002

Tim Pendergast

Head coach for Cornell University in New York. He signed in only 5 days! This is my first success out of the batch of 30 Football coaches I emailed.. I plan to email more soon and hopefully I'll get more too..

9/09/2002

Happy Birthday to me.. I am sure sorry.. I tried hard to update but I was busy..  oookaaayy..

Congrats to Paul who won this month's contest! I wasn't able to update today due to a awesome bday party and going to a concert.

I did get a awesome success though! Shaun Alexander c/o email! This is awesome.. and it only took 10 days!

9/04/2002

Denny Neagle

How many successes will it be till I'm not suprised? Denny signed my card in about 6 months.. Yeah, I sent this one back during Spring Training. The envelope said 3 cents were due on it but It came back Return to Sender to Me... nice thing to happen to a S.A.S.E. I thought it was a failure at first. It was sure a nice surprise though.

9/03/2002

Adam Everett

I was suprised again! I had given up on Adam.. and he was promoted to the Majors which made my chances even worse, but they forwarded it and Adam signed it much to my suprise  I got my 2000 Finest card back signed beautifully in black sharpie.. took about two months c/o the New Orleans Zephyers