TTM autograph received: Jim Palmer

It might have been sometime in February when my buddy decided to make a card show run and took me along to make a day of it - the first stop was at a card shop I go to with a card show that runs twice a week.

I browsed through the old-school and vintage showcase when I saw a 1966 Topps Jim Palmer rookie card #126 - I figured for $25, the card was an impulse buy that might end up as TTM fuel.

I sent off the card with $10 in a TTM request to the Hall of Fame pitcher a week or so before I left for some overseas travel - but unlike the other requests I'd sent off, I anticipated getting a response from Palmer back quickly.

Things might not have worked out as far as the timing goes, where I would have to wait a couple of months more to see whether I had a good or bad result - but did get my rookie card back signed the last day I could go to the mail box before leaving the country.

TTM autographs received: Jim Palmer

The Hall of Fame pitcher signed my two cards in about 5 days for his fee of $10 per card - I think he still had broadcasting obligations with the Baltimore Orioles through the 2021 season, so I held off on sending to him c/o a So. Cal mailing address, until I saw successes coming back [where presumably my request wouldn't be held up in limbo].

TTM autographs received: Jim Palmer

The Hall of Famer pitcher and longtime baseball broadcaster signed my two cards in blue Sharpie in about a week or so - Palmer has usually traveled with the visiting Baltimore Orioles and I've gotten him in-person several times over the past 20 years, but the last time I probably saw him was in 2012.

I dug some Palmer cards out of my IP boxes a year or so ago but left them loose until decided to finally send a couple out c/o a So. Cal address with $20 enclosed - I don’t want to blow my wad on TTM, but to get some cards inked up, what I might do is stagger my requests.

In addition to sending to subjects who don’t require a fee [yet?] - I’ll have those one or two ‘special requests’ I need to add money to.