Pirate TTM Success (Updated 12/21)

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After receiving a whopping 21 Pirate returns this week, I've now had over 150 successes sending to current and former Pirates through the mail. There are still about 30-40 ex-Pirates that are good signers, which should keep me busy for a while.

I figured this was as good a time as any to show off a portion of my collection. A big thank you to birdsfan85for sending me some vintage cards a few weeks ago, which have since been mailed out and signed, pops for inspiring me to expand my TTM collection to include vintage cards, and a huge thank you to Danny for introducing me to TTM and helping me along the way over the past 5 years or so, and numerous others who have helped me out at one point or another here on on the BMB.

*for players that I have multiples of, I only included one scan in hopes of making this thread load a little faster. It also looks like I'm missing a few scans.

 

[pghbuccos]

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great autographs Mark. that was like taking a trip through a time machine. some of those guys I forgot played here and some I've never heard of. thanks for sharing and good luck with the rest.

 

[dano7]

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I feel like I just watched the History Channel as they did a report on the Pirates. Great cards! Best of luck on the others.
DANNY

 

[Guest]

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That's a great idea and a great collection. I may have to start sending out some of my random Pirates!

Thanks for sharing,

Mike

 

[imac220]

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You have some cool autos in there.

Congrats on the milestone!

 

[17ROCKIES12]

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Wow. get that 1959 topps signed by friend.

 

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I've been waiting to see if Friend will be signing at Piratefest this winter. I'd prefer to finish it in person, but if not, it'll be going in the mail soon.

 

[Pops8]

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WOW!! What a great collection! I was amused/excited/surprised to see how many we have in common. I've got some catching up to do. I'd say I'll race you to 200, but you've got too big of a jump on me. Congratulations on a great set of Pirates autographs.

Now tell me, how did you get Mazeroski?

 

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Thanks! I have to in part thank you, since seeing your vintage returns motivated me to expand my collection to include signed vintage.

I'm starting to think it might be a while until I hit 200, unless I begin sending out to some of the minor leaguers this spring. There are still about 20-30 reliable signers that I don't have/haven't received back, but after that I expect to hit a wall.

As for Maz, I live about 5 miles from him, so I suspect he opened the letter due to the proximity of the return address. He was actually one of the first returns I had when I started doing TTM's in 2004. If I recall correctly, Danny helped me out with the address on the old BMB. It's fun to see how far my collection has come in the past 4+ years.

I may send to Maz again in the near future to see if he will still sign. If I can get 2 cards signed, I'd be more than happy to send you one.

 

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I'll just add new arrivals in this thread from time to time, rather than creating new threads. Here are the new arrivals from the past month or so.

 

[pghbuccos]

great additions Mark. I forgot some of those guys played for the Bucs like Chris Stynes and Michael Restonvich. keep up the great collection.

 

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Thanks Dave. This project has really taken on a life of its own. Originally I just wanted something to keep me busy as I hit a wall with the Wilson collection. However, it's really become an interesting challenge to track down and mail out as many players as I can find that have cards in a Pirates uni. There were quite a few guys like Shawon Dunston, Restovich, and Stynes that only have one or two cards as a Pirate, while other guys like Ben Grieve and Pat Rapp that have Pirate cards, but never appeared in the majors with the team.

 

[tramers]

wow ! i saw alot of cards i don't have - consider i have 20,000 pirate cards counting dups- most i have signed are IP rookies . next season wil be hard for me minor team not a pirate team after 10 years .total 39,000 different cards of pirates sorting to see how many diff i have.

 

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wow ! i saw alot of cards i don't have - consider i have 20,000 pirate cards counting dups- most i have signed are IP rookies . next season wil be hard for me minor team not a pirate team after 10 years .total 39,000 different cards of pirates sorting to see how many diff i have.

Wow! That's a pretty amazing collection. I've been working on building a new website (similar to nimster's) that will have my entire Pirates collection, since my current one just showcases my player and auto collections. I haven't counted everything up yet, but I'd guess my total of unique Pirate cards would be somewhere around 6,000-7,000 or so...that's completely a guess though. Once you get things sorted, if you would be interested in moving some of your doubles, let me know and maybe we could work something out.

 

[tramers]

sure will do a deal !! 800 count boxes of Bay , Sanchez, bonds/bonilla,giles, the wilsons, A to Bell ,c-d. this does not count players that played here which is two 3200 count boxes .my big thing is autoed mini helmets of teams that play here . son was batboy last year hoping to be again.
i'm going to do something like nim.
my total collection of cards is near 200,000 . had 300,000 plus . sent a collector 3000 DIFFERENT padres and another 2000 expos.