I've Fallen Way Behind

I'm not sure why I've fallen behind, but I've got about a week's worth of returns and purchases to post.

About a week ago, I received a few cards from Bob Heffner, including a 1965 Red Sox team card. 

The next day, I received some team cards and a 1963 Topps back from Len Gabrielson.

Last Friday, I received a 1973 Topps and the 1963 Reds team cards back from Cookie Rojas.

I received a 1978 Topps signed by Mike Schmidt back from a mail-in signing as well.  I don't normally spend this much, but since I had some credit with this promoter for a couple of signings that were cancelled, it didn't seem like I was spending very much.

On Monday of this week, Ted Wills returned a 1963 Red Sox team card as well as his 1962 and 1965 Topps.  He has always signed for me in black ballpoint in the past, so these were a nice upgrade.

I also received four cards back from a Wilbur Wood signing.

And today I received three team cards and a couple individual cards from Clay Dalrymple.  This return was a long time coming, as my first request received an RTS due to a bad address.  I included $5 per card with my request, so I was disappointed to see that a couple of these smeared.  I'm not sure exactly where these players are getting these black ink pens, but they are almost sure to smear.  They don't appear to be ballpoint, but they are very fine ink.  They leave an indentation on the card like a ballpoint, but the ink appears finer.

I also received a few other purchases from SCN members that I'll just post without listing.  The highlight I think is the 1970 Topps Jim Bunning.

I also bought a bunch of signed team cards from 1961, 1963 and 1972.  I haven't yet organized them enough to scan them in and save them under each player's name for my web site.  Normally, each time I received a team card ttm, I scan it and save it something like, "jimperry1963indiansteam.jpg".  Once I retire a card, it can be difficult to identify all the signatures on it, so I just have to open up a command prompt and list all the files for that card, such as "dir *1963indiansteam*, and I'll see each a file for each player that signed it.

With these purchases, if I have a card signed by nine players, I scan it in and then save it under each of the names of the nine players, then I update the web page for each player on that card as well, so it's quite time consuming.

I'm sending out a few cards for mail-in signings including one for Michael Cuddyer and five for Vic Davalillo, who lives down in Venezuela, but the cards will be send to an SCN member in the U.S., who then sends them with someone who travels there.  Last time I got a couple cards signed by him, the sharpie ink was quite light.  I'm hoping that won't be the case this time.