Autograph request through the mail received: Wade Boggs

I sent some cards and a donation to Boggs a few weeks ago and got my cards back in the mail today - I had anticipating on getting this request back quickly, though my SASE would have probably been soaked if it arrived during the So. Cal storms over the weekend.

Autograph request through the mail received: Andy Dirks

Andy Dirks c/o Detroit Tigers - he was having a breakout year in 2012, so I sent an autograph request towards the end of that season.

In March 2013, the Detroit Tigers returned one of my two cards my unsigned with a form letter in their own envelope - my SASE and my other card were not returned.

I haven't counted on getting through the mail requests back for at least several years but I saw one of my SASEs after checking my mailbox on Aug. 10 - I wondered who responded to me and inside the envelope was a signed card from Dirks, which surprised me since I'd counted him off as an apparent failure.

Autograph request through the mail received: Jordan Zimmermann

Jordan Zimmermann c/o Washington Nationals - maybe an unheralded pitcher in a starting rotation that maybe the best in the National League in 2012, Zimmerman signed my 2011 Topps Allen and Ginter card in blue Sharpie and didn't return the other card I sent; this request took about a month.