Bobby Jenks - Baseball

Bobby Jenks, White Sox Pitcher
c/o Chicago White Sox
Signed a '07 Allen & Ginter (1/1)

Sent it out on 9/11/07
Received it 2/19/08


Written off but man I can not believe it came back. Awesome!!!!

Rich "Goose" Gossage

Goose Gossage, Yankees Pitcher
c/o Home
Signed a '79 Topps (1/3)

Sent it out on 1/08/07
Received it 1/07/08

My first TTM request I ever sent. I sent 3 cards (didn't know better) but gave up a while ago. Now on the eve of his election into the Hall of Fame I get this in the mail, AND he returned the other cards as well.

Good luck on the vote today!!!!

2007

Well, this is it for the 2007 TTM Year. It was our first season in the hobby and we had a blast. I got several autographs that interested me and the boy was extremely happy with his returns!

I would first like to thank the players for returning our cards, THANK YOU!

2nd I would like to thank the posters at Baseball Fever to getting me into this fantastic hobby, THANK YOU!!

Lastly thanks to you for coming here and checking out our cards and such. Please continue to stop by and we hope to have more cards up in 2008.........

Happy New Year!

Failure

Tim Wakefield , Red Sox Pitcher
c/o Boston Red Sox
returned a 98 Topps (0/1)

Sent it out on 4/16/07
Received it 11/28/07

Got it back in my SASE and it was still wrapped in the letter we sent. Very disappointed as I saw success when I sent this at the start of the year. Too bad, I still love the knuckleball!!!

Jay Bell - Baseball

Jay Bell , Royals Shortstop
c/o home
Signed a 98 Topps (1/1)

Sent it out on 4/16/07
Received it 11/14/07

Part of some funny cards I sent out. In 98 Topps let some of the players do what they want. Jay picked playing golf with a baseball. Great return!

Winter Break...

Hello all. I hope that you have enjoyed following our first season with TTM as much as we did doing it. We still have about 50+ cards out there waiting to be signed or returned or ignored. We are also building a wish list for the people we want to send to next season. I am going to try a few people in the coming weeks but we figured that a) active players sign all season, let them have the off-season to themselves and b) the holidays are upon us and the mailbox will start to get stuffed and we would hate to be lost in the shuffle.

We'll post when we next send out a bunch. Until then, feel free to browse and PLEASE leave a comment. We would love to hear from you!!!

PS I am thinking of a few posts about how we do TTM, a mini beginners guide....what do you think?

Hideki Matsui - Baseball

Hideki Matsui, Yankees Outfielder
c/o New York Yankees
Signed a photo (1/1)

Sent it out on 8/09/07
Received it 11/05/07

He kept the card and sent along a nice signed photo. From a company in LA so I am sure it is auto-penned but still a nice return. Better than no response at all...