Brushes with perfection- tickets to near no-hitters and perfect games

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Wow! Great stuff, Scott...

That personalized letter from Selig is off the charts, and what a great idea to have Galarraga and Joyce both sign it!

Also, you may have answered this before.... But where do you get those small cameo photos of the players? Never seen those before... thanks!

Thanks Mark! I was actually asked this exact question by King of Clout Jimmy in this months December pickups. Here's how I responded:

Hey Jimmy,
Those cameo type photos I make myself. It's something that I came up with to better display my no-hit tickets.

I collect no-hit pitcher postcards (signed preferrably), some team issued, some Burke/Brace, some actual RPPC or 3 x 5 photos. Mostly I prefer B/W, but I do have some that are in color when I can't find one in B/W.

With tickets in my no-hitter collection, I manufacture these cameos by making color copies of these postcards and diminish or enlarge the image to custom "fit" the cameo portion. I make color copies of B/W to get better quality copies. Finally, I use a cameo shape template to cut out the image and mount it with glue stick to a white, unlined 3 x 5 index card.

When you look at my no-hitter ticket collection, I have the tickets in toploaders with a second top loader behind it with the photo cameo card in a toploader facing forward, with a signed 3 x 5 or GPC signature of the pitcher on the backside of the cameo. My no-hitter tickets are stored in albums in chronological order in 3 pocket pages. It makes for a great way to store them and look through them as a collection.

It takes a little time to do this when you are starting from scratch, but I have been working on these cameos as a project over the last 2-3 winters.

What can I say, winters are long around here, and I guy with too much time on his hands gets board...

[doug.goodman]

Wow. Amazing stuff.
Doug

[Scott Garner]

Thanks Dynarl, Jay and David and Doug! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Here's a picture of the CYO dinner program where Jim Joyce was the keynote speaker in Jan., 2011 and one more picture of my son Sam in action on his SJA Warriors championship team. At this age kids play several positions. Sam is a pretty great catcher despite being a left handed thrower. He threw several runners out at 2nd base. He will be one of the starting pitchers on 2012's version of this team. Being a southpaw pitcher has its advantages...

Happy holidays to all on net54!