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Saturday, January 9, 2021

47 Months Later...

I haven't been sending out TTM requests anymore, but once in a while self-addressed stamped envelopes with my writing on them end up in my mailbox.

Yesterday was such a day. Not knowing who might have returned a signed card, I opened it and these three cards popped out:
Wily Mo Pena! (Or Willi Mo Pena according to the Bowman card above). Good lord. I couldn't remember sending this this one so to my handy record-keeping spreadsheet I went. I sent it to Cleveland Indians spring training on February 22, 2017! That was 47 months ago! Or 1,417 days ago. That's crazy.

Thanks goodness I haven't moved addresses since 2016.

It just goes to show that you truly can never write-off a TTM request. It also goes to show how important it is to keep records. My current spreadsheet only dates back to 2015. I lost a few hundred records to a work computer malfunction back in 2015. Dumb. That's why I use google sheets now, and always have access to it.

Thanks to Mr. Wily Mo Pena for returning these cards signed.
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9 comments:

  1. Elliptical ManJanuary 9, 2021 at 10:36 AM

    I'm surprised that players are signing multiple cards.

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    1. The Lost CollectorJanuary 9, 2021 at 10:41 AM

      When I send multiple cards I almost always ask them to sign one and keep the rest. Often they do, sometimes they don't and send all the cards back signed or unsigned.

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  2. Zippy ZappyJanuary 9, 2021 at 1:07 PM

    "Thanks goodness I haven't moved addresses since 2016."

    Didn't you move twice since 2017? Or is my brain just jumbled and I've lost all track of time?

    Regardless, congrats on the long return.

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    1. The Lost CollectorJanuary 9, 2021 at 3:22 PM

      Nope. Last move was into my house in 2016. But I’m sure it seems that way with all the previous moves.

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  3. Peter K SteinbergJanuary 9, 2021 at 3:54 PM

    This is rather staggering and cool. Congrats! Didn't he kind of balloon in stature? Or am I confusing him with Mo Vaughan or something?

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  4. acrackedbatJanuary 9, 2021 at 6:33 PM

    Wily Mo -always a favorite name. That's a fun addition!

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  5. FujiJanuary 10, 2021 at 10:27 AM

    That's really cool. I wonder what Wily's story was. Like was this sitting at the bottom of the bag. Or maybe he just gets so many TTM requests that he's now making his way into the 2017 requests. Either way... it's always cool when a professional athlete takes the time to sign cards for fans.

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  6. The Snorting BullJanuary 10, 2021 at 2:08 PM

    I always thought Wily Mo was going to be an incredible player. Some of the home runs he hit when he first came up were McGwiresque.

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  7. JonJanuary 10, 2021 at 6:31 PM

    I love seeing long forgotten TTM requests coming back successful, although knowing the "why" behind them coming back after so long would be pretty interesting too.

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