Mark McGwire Collector's Thread

onionring9 said:

jam92102 said:

Ok guys spring training is sneaking up. Wanted to see how you guys send out your cards to get mcgwire to sign? Do you do a pwe with another inside? Bigger envelope? Do you put the card in penny sleve and top loader? I sent last year and never got a reply so I'm wondering if I protected it too much or made it a pain for him? Do you hand write the letters or type and keep them short or long?

thx for all the help.

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Don seems to get 2,456 autos every spring training from mac. We should just pay him to run for us

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lol, not a bad idea! :lol:

onionring9 said:

Then I received this gift in the mail from be8belove today. Didn't even exist on our list and I had never seen it before. It's part of an SP set then is an SP of the SP set:

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Nice stuff, Joe. I have that card, I never noticed it wasn't on our list. I did have it set aside, so at the time I bought it I must have known it was a tough find, even though I don't recall anything about it. Any info on it? Was it pack inserted or only available at the game?

Mark McGwire Museum said:

onionring9 said:

Then I received this gift in the mail from be8elove today. Didn't even exist on our list and I had never seen it before. It's part of an SP set then is an SP of the SP set:

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Nice stuff, Joe. I have that card, I never noticed it wasn't on our list. I did have it set aside, so at the time I bought it I must have known it was a tough find, even though I don't recall anything about it. Any info on it? Was it pack inserted or only available at the game?

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Here is what I have on that set,

1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest

This 30 card standard-size set was issued by Upper Deck during the annual FanFest celebration. The cards were issued in three-card packs with 15,000 packs produced and distributed during the show. The cards have a silver All-Star Game logo on the lower right corner of the card and they are all numbered with an "AS" prefix. Ten of the cards were printed in smaller quantities then the other 20 cards, those cards are notated with an SP in the listings below

1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS1 Mo Vaughn SP -
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS2 Randy Johnson
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS3 Chipper Jones
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS4 Greg Maddux SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS5 Cal Ripken
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS6 Albert Belle
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS7 Nomar Garciaparra SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS8 Pedro Martinez
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS9 Sammy Sosa
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS10 Frank Thomas
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS11 Sean Casey
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS12 Roberto Alomar
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS13 Manny Ramirez
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS14 Larry Walker
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS15 Jeff Bagwell SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS16 Craig Biggio
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS17 Raul Mondesi
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS18 Vladimir Guerrero
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS19 Mike Piazza SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS20 Derek Jeter SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS21 Roger Clemens SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS22 Scott Rolen
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS23 Mark McGwire SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS24 Tony Gwynn
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS25 Barry Bonds
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS26 Ken Griffey Jr SP
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS27 Alex Rodriguez
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS28 Jose Canseco
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS29 Juan Gonzalez
1999 Upper Deck MVP FanFest #AS30 Ivan Rodriguez

I'm still hunting down a Jeter who's also a SP so if any one ever comes across one, please let me know. Thanks.

Be8el0ve said:

I'm still hunting down a Jeter who's also a SP so if any one ever comes across one, please let me know. Thanks.

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Great info, thanks, and very kind gesture. I'm sure we'll all be on the lookout for these now, and help make sure you get a Jeter.

Do you read that as 15k total packs, or each pack?

Mark McGwire Museum said:

Be8el0ve said:

I'm still hunting down a Jeter who's also a SP so if any one ever comes across one, please let me know. Thanks.

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Great info, thanks, and very kind gesture. I'm sure we'll all be on the lookout for these now, and help make sure you get a Jeter.

Do you read that as 15k total packs, or each pack?

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15,000 packs of 3 or 45,000 cards printed of the entire set of 30 cards. Sounds like an aweful lot of cards of a set you rarely see.

i got 5 items signed yesterday at
the team signing here in jupiter.

i still got to get pics up of the others
. These were the 2 big pieces i wanted done

he has basically stopped doing the
full sig . he does on some stuff but majority
is the shorter version.

16x20 w/ Pujols


89 GU bat
i had it signed in july but i took the small
auto off. so i had to get it redone.

inscription to cover up old auto


nice full name under brand



here are some pics of mac
hes the one with backwards cap

AWESOME stuff, Don. That McGwire/Pujols picture came out really, really nice!

I know I should know this, but how long does spring training last? i.e. how long do I have to get something in the mail to him?

here are pics of the 6 items i got done

really wish the mattingly photo
came out like thr pujols. i think im gona
try to get it redone. but here are the
new pieces. The bat and pujols came
out like i hoped.

jam92102 said:

I know I should know this, but how long does spring training last? i.e. how long do I have to get something in the mail to him?

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its from feb 14, till April 1st

my guess is if you have not
sent it in by now , your success rate has
dropped assuming he has alot of mail waiting.

Shows how much I pay attention to baseball now that he's retired Looks like I'm going to have to make a trip to Jupiter myself next year.

Hopefully didn't get burned on this. Hindsight should have asked you first.

[ebay:b8l8sylg]280838371162[/ebay:b8l8sylg]

jam92102 said:

Hopefully didn't get burned on this. Hindsight should have asked you first.

[ebay:1tfdwhb3]280838371162[/ebay:1tfdwhb3]

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It's good.......Ashley :lol:

Ashley's my thursday night name.....I mean...

Don, what's your auto count up to now? Your auto collection is badass man!

Ashley, the auto looks good, how's your sister mary-kate doing?

onionring9 said:

Don, what's your auto count up to now? Your auto collection is badass man!

Ashley, the auto looks good, how's your sister mary-kate doing?

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thanks joe , i gotta count, i think
its time to make a spread sheet

89 - memorabilia - bats,balls,pics,tix, ANYthing not a card
141 - ip cards
59 cert cards
/ 289 without doubles
/ 306 w/ duplicates of IP cards

I think I am going to try to get 1989 world series ball signed by MAC during this year. 89 is my favorite world series ever.

Just pulled this beauty in a pack

Big Mac McGwire said:

jam92102 said:

I know I should know this, but how long does spring training last? i.e. how long do I have to get something in the mail to him?

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its from feb 14, till April 1st

my guess is if you have not
sent it in by now , your success rate has
dropped assuming he has alot of mail waiting.

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Just from SCN he has thousands waiting!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Still no returns from him this year.

George_Calfas said:

Just pulled this beauty in a pack

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:shock: :shock: :shock:

That's a beautiful Mac!!!!