I've gone from ignorance, to annoyance, to amusement, to addiction when it comes to Twitter. I did not get it at first. Now I'm checking twitter 20 times a day. I don't tweet much, but I love watching my feed during Rangers games, and I really enjoy watching the little Twitter dust ups that occur periodically. Sam at the Daily Dimwit, I'm looking at you.
The other night I enjoyed watching the Lost Collector tweet pics of a bunch of random TTM (through the mail) autographs he had collected over the years. I thought I would outright steal the idea and show some of the TTMs I picked up long ago in my early collector days. I also thought it would be interesting to see if anyone had any thoughts as to the authenticity of some of these. I feel pretty secure about some, but others... maybe not:
This is probably my favorite. I guess I didn't have a Craig Biggio card available to send at the time, so I used the back of one of those Fleer sticker inserts that showed pictures of stadiums. I hope this is authentic! If I can reasonably assume it is, I might send it in for PSA/DNA authentication. It looks pretty close to other autos I've seen of Biggio on eBay.
This looks pretty close too. I have to say, as a high schooler, I showed pretty good taste in which cards to send for autographs. If it's real, this is awesome!
I can't tell for sure on this one. Wonder if Canseco would verify it if I asked him on Twitter?
Wrapping up with another Hall of Famer. I'd give this one about a 2% chance of being real. It doesn't look like his signature at all to me. Maybe I'm wrong.
And be sure to follow me and my non-tweets! I'm at @napkindoon. Don't bother following @Lost_Collector or @thedimwit. They'll just cyber bully you and pollute your feeds with pictures of kittens and quiche recipes.
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Doon! These are solid. Well done.
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