TTM Success - Ken Hill

There are a lot of times where I talk about cards that have been sitting in my "to be TTMed" box for a long time.  For whatever reason, they sit.  One of which is when a player charges for their signature.  I rarely have cash on me, so that is a reason why I wait to send to players who charge fees.  One such player who's cards sat for a long time was former pitcher, Ken Hill.  I would pass his cards many times, and continue to wait to send them.  Finally, one day, I decided to go ahead and get the cards out of the box and into the mail.  It helped that I had found $10 lying on the ground as I was walking laps around the office building one morning.

The above 1990 Toys R Us card was one that I definitely wanted to add to the autograph album.  When I made the decision to send to Hill, this one was the first card I put into the envelope.

Of all of the other Hill cards that I had, I chose these four to round out the shipment.  Clockwise from top left are a 1995 Upper Deck Collectors Choice SE, 1996 Topps, 1995 Score Summit and a 1997 Topps Finest Hurlers.  I believe Hill's may be the first 1995 Score Summit in the album.  That is a very sharp-looking card, and turned out very nicely once signed.

Hill (b. 1965) played in the majors from 1988 to 2001 for the Cardinals, Expos, Indians, Rangers, Angels, White Sox and Devil Rays.  He had a record of 117-109 with 1,181 strike outs and a 4.06 ERA.  He was an All Star in 1994 when he led the NL in wins (16) prior to the strike ending the season.  He finished second that year in the NL Cy Young race to Greg Maddux.  He finished 12th in the NL MVP voting that season.

I mailed to Hill on November 23 and got the cards back on December 17, for a 24-day TAT.  I paid his fee of $3/card.

TTM Success - Terry Steinbach

Here is a TTM success that took a long time to get here.  It also took me a long time to send the cards, but I got around to it, and then waited.  I had some pretty cool cards of Terry Steinbach for the autograph album, like the above 1995 Score Summit Edition.  I remember these from when I opened packs as a kid, but a lot of them got trashed because they all stuck together.  This one was one of the few that actually survived that era, and will now be in my album.

I had these two horizontal cards to send.  Both of them look really cool.  I especially liked the 1994 Upper Deck Homefield Advantage card.  I had been wanting one of them for the album, and finally got this one in.

He doesn't have a 1987 Topps, but I did send his 1987 Topps Rookies card in.  I also added a couple mid-90s Topps to my album.

Steinbach (b. 1962) played in the majors from 1986 to 1999 for the A's and Twins.  He had 1,453 hits, 162 home runs and a .271 batting average.  He was an All Star 3 times (1988, 1989 and 1993) and won the World Series with the A's in 1989.  He finished 21st in the 1996 AL MVP voting.

I mailed to Steinbach on October 16, 2017, and got the cards back on April 19, for a 185-day TAT.  I paid his fee of $2/card.