Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Ron Guidry and George Medich TTM Returns and a Long Failure

I was pretty curious when I saw the older flag forever stamp on one of my sases in my Informed Delivery email this morning.  I scanned through my old requests to see if there were any open ones that were sent to Atlanta, which is where this one was postmarked.  I decided it was Pat Corrales and was excited to get a nearly five-year-old request back.  But then I realized that Mr. Corrales passed away in 2023.  Someone was kind enough to send back my cards, unsigned of course, about 18 months after he passed away.  I appreciate that they took the time to do this.  I saw others on SCN getting their unsigned cards back recently as well.

I did have two successes today though.

Ron Guidry, who will sign one card per request, signed his 1982 Topps In Action card for me in a little over five weeks.  The In Action cards from the 82 set don't have the facsimile autograph on them, so they look a little nicer signed, I think.  I am working on the entire set though.

And George Medich signed his 1973, 1979 and both his 1982 Topps in just 11 days.  I didn't notice how badly the 73 was misaligned when I sent it out.  I do have another copy, which is a bit better, signed by both Medich and Busby.  Dick Colpaert passed away in 2021 and I never sent a request to him.




Here's the other '73 I have with Busby and Medich on it:

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