Autographed Boarding Passes

canjond

I posted this over at Net54, but someone suggested I post this here, too. When I was younger, I was lucky enough to meet a lot of ball players while working at local autograph signings. One day when I was about 14, I was working with Enos Slaughter and his used boarding pass fell out of his coat pocket. He went to throw it away, and noticing his name was printed on it, I asked him to autograph it for me instead. Little did I know that request was to take me down an interesting side-road to autograph collecting. Having just gotten the "The Captain" back from a Steiner signing, I thought I'd share some Yanks!










And while this one doesn't really "fit" with the collection, it was too cool to pass up when it came up for sale (Elston Howard's QE2 custom's declaration form):

Bosox1976

Very cool

MULLINS5

I love unique collections like this.

Baez578

Now this is cool!

DanBessette

Wicked cool!

wrestlingcardking

I am a fan of these....very unique. Thanks for sharing....

begsu1013

no one's interested in these, so just send them to me please. save us from any further smiles!

maddux69

Nice collection! I like that Whitey Ford is a man of the people and flying Coach.

MiniDuff

Highly doubt the puddle jumper to Albany had a 1st class, but still cool.

canjond

Thanks guys. Here's a few more from the collection...






And not just baseball...



John Mackey (Baltimore Colts Football HOF'er) thought the idea was so interesting, he continued to send me his boarding passes for years after we met! It's just a testament to what a generous man he was, but every 6 months or so, I'd get a card in the mail with 4 or 5 boarding passes that John had saved from his flights. I probably have 20 of them, each autographed a little differently.

grote15

Cool way to collect autos~love it!

qualitycards

Those are fantastic & a unique way to collect auto's

larryallen73

Very cool.

miklia

these are awesome, big fan. I had Greg Jennings autograph my passport once, didn't have anything else handy. He thought it was pretty funny.

FavreFan1971

The Mariano Riviera should be protected somehow. Reason I say this is I pull out a receipt from Home Depot from 7-8 years ago for my furnace for warranty work. The receipt was basically useless. I could barley read a thing on it. It was stored in a plastic folder attached to the intake of the furnace so it did not get hot.

Anyone have an idea how to protect that?

mknez

Good Stuff!

lahmejoon

This is one of the coolest autograph concepts I've seen. Great job on these and thanks for sharing!

esquiresports

This is a great stuff.

canjond

<< <i>The Mariano Riviera should be protected somehow. Reason I say this is I pull out a receipt from Home Depot from 7-8 years ago for my furnace for warranty work. The receipt was basically useless. I could barley read a thing on it. It was stored in a plastic folder attached to the intake of the furnace so it did not get hot.

Anyone have an idea how to protect that? >>



I hear you - I wish I knew a way. Unfortunately lamination (which I would absolutely consider doing) won't protect it from what I understand. I think it's one of those things that will just fade with time. For the most part, I have it stored in a safe, which I hope affords it some protection.

FavreFan1971

If you laminate it, it will turn all black due to the heat. What about getting in encased from PSA using

CUSTOM ENCAPSULATION (Green Label) $5
Varies with Demand
Used for encapsulating custom made trading cards, such as youth league sports cards or personal photos. Tallboy/Supersized holder (over 2-11/16" x 3-13/16") $10.

No more oxygen.

FINESTKIND

Very cool.

baseballfan

Great stuff

Thanks for sharing

BLUEJAYWAY

Very unique collection. Nice. I noticed many boarding passes denote a ALB/SCH'DY destination. The players were either on their way to the HOF in Cooperstown via ALB. airport (players for HOF weekend usually fly into Albany,NY then are driven from there to Cooperstown,NY) or on their way to a signing session at the Polish Community Center which had many shows in the 80's-2000's in Albany,NY.

tsalems1

Great stuff. These are items you just don't see very often

zep33

<< <i>The Mariano Riviera should be protected somehow. Reason I say this is I pull out a receipt from Home Depot from 7-8 years ago for my furnace for warranty work. The receipt was basically useless. I could barley read a thing on it. It was stored in a plastic folder attached to the intake of the furnace so it did not get hot.

Anyone have an idea how to protect that? >>



make a photocopy of it before it fades and staple it to the original


And those autos are awesome!!

FavreFan1971

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<< <i>The Mariano Riviera should be protected somehow. Reason I say this is I pull out a receipt from Home Depot from 7-8 years ago for my furnace for warranty work. The receipt was basically useless. I could barley read a thing on it. It was stored in a plastic folder attached to the intake of the furnace so it did not get hot.

Anyone have an idea how to protect that? >>



make a photocopy of it before it fades and staple it to the original


And those autos are awesome!! >>



Heat is the issue, if you photo it, it might black out.

canjond

<< <i>Very unique collection. Nice. I noticed many boarding passes denote a ALB/SCH'DY destination. The players were either on their way to the HOF in Cooperstown via ALB. airport (players for HOF weekend usually fly into Albany,NY then are driven from there to Cooperstown,NY) or on their way to a signing session at the Polish Community Center which had many shows in the 80's-2000's in Albany,NY. >>



All the Albany flights were for signings at the Polish Community Center. I used to help Ed Keetz at the shows, and had the opportunity to meet all of the players.