What's the longest you've waited for a ttm?

lawnmowerman

I just received a ttm I sent out 1/21/10. It arrived last Wednesday. 1119 Days later.
The player is Chris Dishman of the Houston Oilers. I guess he felt bad because he sent me an additional signed card as well lol Nice guy!

alifaxwa2

For me its about 7 years. Redskins OL Chris Samuels. I sent it in 2000 during his rookie year. The SASE address was my college mailbox. When it arrived in 2007, the school must have went through there records because they had it forwarded to my parents house, which would have been my official residence at that time.

Yankees001

I sent out to everyone who Debuted in MLB in 1983 and Prior back in 2001. Two weeks ago, I got one back. I have no idea who it is, as the name is scribbled. But, 11 years for that one.

I had a massive collection at one time, but I had to sell them off. I put a nice down payment on my wife's first car.

Dave

lawnmowerman

Wow! 7 and 11 years! I thought my wait was long at 3.

I guess some guys are extremely busy or possibly had a change of heart when it comes to signing.

Either way, it's nice of them to hold onto the cards for so long instead of taking the easy route and tossing them in the trash.

Dboneesq

Matt ... I don't have anything that took as long as some of the other guys, but I do have some interesting TTMS. I once again started sending TTMs in March 2009. I still have about 200 that never came back.

Longest is Jacoby Ellsbury - 3 years. Did not send back my card, but sent other items, including a small plastic container with "Fenway Dirt".

Sparky Anderson took 2 years.

Paul Molitor - Interesting - took 2.5 years for him to write a note saying he is too busy to sign my card.

Ernie Banks - 2.5 years and he returned my '69 card with a STAMPED signature.

Bennie McRae - '69 football - 2.5 years and sent the card back unsigned.

Michael Cooper - '86 Fleer basketball - 2 years.

NINE MORE DAYS and I will be landing at Tampa Airport for a nice 5 day stay! MAKE SURE THE WEATHER IS NICE!

ChiefsFan1st

<< <i>Wow! 7 and 11 years! I thought my wait was long at 3.

I have never sent a ttm, so I have been waiting 36 years!
Am I the winner?

lawnmowerman

Interesting Doug! Pretty cool of Ellsbury to do that.

Did Molitor happen to sign the note he sent ya?

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Wow! 7 and 11 years! I thought my wait was long at 3.

I have never sent a ttm, so I have been waiting 36 years!
Am I the winner? >>



Yes you are! Please pm me your address. I'll send your prize out sometime in the 36 years.

Thanks for playing!

CARDSANDCOINS

4 years
sent to Hank Aaron in 1979
got it back in 1983

Dboneesq

<< <i>Interesting Doug! Pretty cool of Ellsbury to do that.
Did Molitor happen to sign the note he sent ya? >>



Here is what he sent me. The dates to the right and the printed "Paul Molitor" are in my handwriting. The letter was a copy.




Matt ... here was what I got from Ellsbury:

Sent February 22, 2010 c/o the Red Sox Spring Training Facility. 1,047 days later I get the following.

The two cards I sent to him were returned UNSIGNED.

Inside this 10 x 7 envelope:


Were the following:
A postcard "signed" by Jacoby. Based upon what I found on eBay, this is NOT his signature.


A pocket schedule, with the 2nd half of the season on the reverse.


This sticker of the Red Sox Logo:


And this, which I think is pretty kewl:


Maybe down the road I will put a display together with the Red Sox Dirt and
the dirt from the previous Yankee Stadium that I have:

cardsnbeads

About 6 years for Jake Plummer . Other very long waits were Otis Birdsong almost 4 years . Vern Mikkelsen about 3 years . Women's Coach Marianne Stanley was 3 years . Brian Sipe was at least a couple years. Sam Adams was like 4 or 5 years.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>Maybe down the road I will put a display together with the Red Sox Dirt and
the dirt from the previous Yankee Stadium that I have >>



Red Sox and Yankees stuff in the same display??



The encounter could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.

Doc Brown, Back To The Future II

Dboneesq

DAMN ... you figured out my plan Matt!

lawnmowerman

<< <i>DAMN ... you figured out my plan Matt! >>



Well you are a Mets fan. How else would we win? haha

brianwintersfan

About 4 and a half years

BaltimoreYankee

Some long wait times here. I sent this card to Nolan Ryan on 4/26/84 and got it back (or at least postmarked) on 2/17/87. Any thoughts on the legitimacy of the signature?

EAsports

<< <i>For me its about 7 years. Redskins OL Chris Samuels. I sent it in 2000 during his rookie year. The SASE address was my college mailbox. When it arrived in 2007, the school must have went through there records because they had it forwarded to my parents house, which would have been my official residence at that time. >>



Similar story.

Purchased a pack of 1995 Donruss at my college bookstore. I used my mom's address as the return address.

I moved back home to finish school closer to home in 1997. I moved to my own apartment in 2000. In 2001, my mom called to tell me that I had an envelope that looked like my handwriting and had my name as the return address. She told me it was postmarked from Arizona.

Alan Trammell had finally sent my 1995 Donruss back to me, signed.

mikeschmidt

I think I win.

In May of 2011, I received a message from my mother about a TTM I received back that I had sent as a teenager.

Hi Marc,

I know you will get a charge out of this as much as I did. Just went out to get the mail and there was an envelope addressed to you (your handwriting) with a stamp on it. The stamp was a 29 cent stamp. Took the pleasure of opening this - two autographed baseball cards from Kevin Reimer - played for the Rangers. How funny is this that he had these for so long and the post office didn't even catch the insufficient postage!!!!! I have a feeling that Kevin has no life now - why else would he have these all this time? He is probably hoping that someone remembers him.

Mom

Sent from my iPad


So -- I had to look up who Kevin Reimer even was. I certainly did not remember him! http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reimeke01.shtml And checking on the USPS site, the Postal Service switched to 29 cent stamps in 1991 and hiked the rate to 32 in 1995. I imagine that I sent this closer to 1991, just remembering where I was with life at the time.

But this certainly is my longest wait ever for a TTM signature. And, unlike my mother's condescending note, I imagine that my request was simply lost or misplaced. I tend to (naively?) believe that most ex-ballplayers either don't respond to requests at all, or simply love being remembered. Kevin hasn't played in MLB for 18 years, so I imagine this probably just got misplaced in the grand scheme of things.

Thought some of y'all might appreciate the story.

M

Dboneesq

SCHMIDTY - I'm going to say that you are the winner. Might be more interesting if it were a popular player, but Reimer WAS named PLAYER OF THE WEEK in 5/2/1993 when he played for Milwaukee (AL). LOL

lawnmowerman

Wow 20 years! Awesome story Marc!

bziddy

I'm still waiting on Tommy John and Rickey Henderson.

27 years and counting.

lawnmowerman

<< <i>I'm still waiting on Tommy John and Rickey Henderson.

27 years and counting. >>



I believe Rickey signed it to Rickey and mailed it to himself.