Another TTM Success From Bobby Brown

I wanted to get Bobby Brown on a checklist for my 1987 Topps set, since he was the AL President when the set was released.  I had this old Fleer Yankees sticker that was in one of my boxes, so I sent it along as well.  This sticker is from 1985, I believe, and looks kind of cool with Brown's signature.

Along with the checklist, shown above, I got the Topps Winning Pitch Game for the 1986 All Star Game signed.  One of the boxes from Mom had a decent-sized stack of those cards in it, so I figures it would be cool to get one of them signed and into my album.

I mailed these cards off to Brown on January 22 and got the cards back on January 31, for a 9-day TAT.

Another TTM Success From Bobby Brown

Again, I try to refrain as much as possible from sending multiple requests to former players for TTM, but there are occasions where I feel it is necessary to do so.  In the case of Bobby Brown, I wanted to make sure I had a 1949 Bowman represented in my album, and when I saw Brown's '49 Bowman, I jumped at the chance.

Take a look at that card.  It is really nice.  It is his rookie card, and I spent about $17 on it, but I am glad I did.  It will definitely look great in my album.

I also sent along this 1952 Bowman, which turned out really nice as well.  By my unofficial count, I have something from every vintage year of Bowman except 1948.  I haven't considered the refreshed Bowman from the 90s-present, although, I do have a bunch of cards from various years.  I may consider addind other years at some point, but for what I am doing here, I was trying to get one signed card from each year of Bowman from 1948 to 1955.

There aren't any players left in 1948 who sign TTM.  Red Schoendienst isn't really a sure thing with signing, so I will likely have to buy a signed '48 from somewhere.  If I only have to buy one year, then that isn't too bad.

Brown (b. 1924) played in the majors from 1946 to 1952 and 1956 for the Yankees.  He had 452 hits, 22 home runs and a .279 batting average.  He won the World Series with the Yankees in 1947, 1949, 1950 and 1951.  I sent a ball to him in 2011 and got it back.  You can read that post here.

I mailed to Brown on March 11 and got the cards back on March 20, for a 9-day TAT.  The 1949 Bowman is the oldest baseball card that I have been able to get signed on my own.

Something Cool From The Card Show

 I picked up this Official AL Baseball, new in the box, from a vendor at the card show this past weekend.  I've been looking for older baseballs for some time now and was able to snag this one for only $10.00.  The guy had maybe 4 or 5 more that he was willing to sell me really cheap, but I was on a budget and didn't want to exceed it.

The ball is a Bobby Brown ball, which is really cool, since I just got him TTM.  Would have been a good idea to wait and send this to him, but oh well.

Something I found to be odd/funny, though...  The ball is an official AL baseball, the box even says so, but the stadium pictured on the box is old Busch Stadium.  I saw The Who play there live in 1989.  My first concert...

The ball looks great.  The guy told me that they had bought a bunch of them so someone could sign them, and I guess he didn't sign them all.  The box says copyright 1985, so this was early in Brown's AL presidency, which he was elected to in 1984.

TTM Success - Bobby Brown

I know what you're thinking.  That I sent this ball c/o Whitney Houston.  Unfortunately (well, maybe fortunately), this is not THAT Bobby Brown.

I sent to the former AL president and former Yankee Bobby Brown on August 26, 2011 and got the ball back yesterday, September 3, 2011 making this a 8-day TAT.

Bobby Brown played for the Yankees from 1946 to 1954 and 1956.  He had 452 career hits, a .279 batting average and 22 home runs.  He played on 4 World Series Championship teams (1947, 1949, 1950 and 1951) and had career numbers of 18 hits and a .439 batting average in 41 World Series at bats.  He and Yogi Berra are the last two surviving members of the 1947 Yankees.  There are no players remaining from any earlier Yankee World Championship team.


Brown left the Yankees (and baseball) after the 1956 season to become a cardiologist.  He would return to MLB in 1984the early 1980s as the president of the Texas Rangers and then succeeded Lee MacPhail as president of the AL from 1984 to 1994.

Brown is my 31st TTM success.