Sending multiple requests to the same team (ttm)

[AutographCollector]

When you guys send out mass requests to MLB players do you try to scatter what teams you send to?
For example: I have 2 cards of Brandon Morrow & 2 cards of Jeff Weaver, and they both pitch for Seattle. Would you guys send to both players at the same time?
Hope you know what I mean...

[EricDavis]

I would go ahead and send them at the same time.

[AutographCollector]

I would go ahead and send them at the same time.

Hey Eric,
Yeah I think that I will.
Do you think that when a player get a ttm request that he "shares" the letter with his teammates? I've always wondered that.

[DaClyde]

Do you think that when a player get a ttm request that he "shares" the letter with his teammates? I've always wondered that.

I can see the conversation now:

1st player: "Hey, this Jimmy Wilson kid says I'm his favorite player in the world. That's kinda cool, huh?"

2nd player: "Did you say Jimmy Wilson? I got that one around here somewhere....see here? Twerp said I was his favorite player in the world!"

3rd player: "Ok, let's see, I'm opening one from a Mr. Jimmy Wilson right now, let's see...blah, blah, blah....WHAT? THIRD FAVORITE PLAYER?!"

[AutographCollector]

I can see the conversation now:

1st player: "Hey, this Jimmy Wilson kid says I'm his favorite player in the world. That's kinda cool, huh?"

2nd player: "Did you say Jimmy Wilson? I got that one around here somewhere....see here? Twerp said I was his favorite player in the world!"

3rd player: "Ok, let's see, I'm opening one from a Mr. Jimmy Wilson right now, let's see...blah, blah, blah....WHAT? THIRD FAVORITE PLAYER?!"

Ha ha!!! :rofl:
That is the #1 reason why I always word my letters different.
And I NEVER write "Your my favorite player".

[bryanspellman]

I would send at the same time. Pat Nesheck (sp?) on his website said that they do swap letters as one guy was opening some TTM stuff and complained about a photocopied bad letter. A guy in the locker room had the SAME LETTER from the SAME GUY. Needless to say they got tossed and Pat used it as a HOW NOT TO GET TTM lesson....

Personally when composing my letters I never say they are my favorite player (unless it is Tim Salmon) but I do tell them I enjoy watching them play baseball and wish them luck and if I have seen them live I mention the game. So far so good. I would hope they share the info and maybe it will get them both to send the cards back......

[AutographCollector]

I would send at the same time. Pat Nesheck (sp?) on his website said that they do swap letters as one guy was opening some TTM stuff and complained about a photocopied bad letter. A guy in the locker room had the SAME LETTER from the SAME GUY. Needless to say they got tossed and Pat used it as a HOW NOT TO GET TTM lesson....

Personally when composing my letters I never say they are my favorite player (unless it is Tim Salmon) but I do tell them I enjoy watching them play baseball and wish them luck and if I have seen them live I mention the game. So far so good. I would hope they share the info and maybe it will get them both to send the cards back......

Yeah I too am a member of Pat's site. GREAT guy & a GREAT TTM signer.
Well the guy who photocopied the letter is a twit. :thumbsdown:

[DaClyde]

Ha ha!!! :rofl:
That is the #1 reason why I always word my letters different.
And I NEVER write "Your my favorite player".

I wrote to Jimmy Key when I was 11 because he was from Huntsville, Alabama, which was where I was living at the time. I looked his address up in the phone book, and sure enough, there was James E. Key. I wrote him about a full page long letter and asked him to sign the 1987 Topps card of him that I enclosed. This was the first player I ever wrote to for an autograph and I didn't know anything about writing to them at the stadium or enclosing a SASE. I even had the nerve to say he was my SECOND favorite pitcher, behind Dave Righetti (I was a big Yankees fan at the time).

Well, I didn't hear anything back for close to a year, but one day I did receive a letter back, from Jimmy's MOTHER, along with the signed card. Apparently, Jimmy hadn't lived at that address in Huntsville for a couple of years, but by what could only be purest coincidence, the lady who lived there was a nurse who just happened to work with Jimmy's sister. She gave the letter to Jimmy's sister to took it to Jimmy's parents who occasionally went to see Jimmy pitch on the road. Mrs. Key ended up getting the letter to Jimmy in Kansas City where he was pitching against the Royals. She said Jimmy got a kick out of my letter and thought I must be a "very honest young man" for saying he was my 2nd favorite pitcher! I've still got the letter, and naturally I'll never part with the card.

After that, I only ever wrote to a few other players...I doubt either George Brett or Ruben Sierra ever saw the letters. Brett's card came back with a generic "thank you for your letter, the highlight of my career was" blah, blah, blah, a Royals sticker and what must've been that year's Royals' team card of Brett with a rubber stamp autograph. Sierra's came back with an odd little photo copied note thanking me for the letter, but due to the volume of fan mail he received he was unable to personalize my item, but included an application to his fan club, some generic b&w card of him and there was even a 1989 Topps sticker stuck on the note. Never got my card back...don't remember what I sent. The other two successes were Matt Williams (who signed three cards during the break in the 1989 Earthquake series) and Larry Arndt, a former Huntsville Star who was playing in Tacoma at the time.

[kearns643]

When you guys send out mass requests to MLB players do you try to scatter what teams you send to?
For example: I have 2 cards of Brandon Morrow & 2 cards of Jeff Weaver, and they both pitch for Seattle. Would you guys send to both players at the same time?
Hope you know what I mean...

With the volumn of mail these players get it has to become a production line. I can't believe that they can remember one from another after doing 500 a weekend (or more).

This short story will make it clear. I found a couple of cards of a FMR Dodger(I have forget his name (but it was a player that I hadn't heard of.) So I sent two out. About a month later they came back unsigned..but with a letter from the "other Bla Bla" saying..."I am sorry to imform you that I am not the "Bla Bla" that you are looking for. I am a 45 yr old white male that only played baseball in high school!!! I do recieve over 600 autograph request a year!!!! Thats 11 a week for a player that played 45 yrs ago. The current players must recieve mail by the buckets and they can't do it alone. impossible. So, don't worry...go for it...

[EricDavis]

Well I sent out to three Indians this morning. Cliff Lee, Jeremy Sowers, and Trot Nixon. We'll see how that goes. I also never tell players that they are my favorite. I told Ryne Sandberg that he was my sisters favorite player and that if he personalized the card to her (I gave him her name) then I might be forced to give her the card. But I said if he didn't then I wasn't going to give it to her. He really is my sisters favorite player, so I hope he doesn't personalize it but does sign it lol.

[Pods fan 22]

i must have sent about 20 to the white sox ST this year, acualy got most of them back exept for a few, but i didnt see any successes from those players from other people either, so i dont think it has an effect. i wrote a letter to mark buehrle once, and he gave me a note saying "jim, nice letter, i shared it with the guys on the team and they were crackin up". so idk mabye they only share ones that stick out? im not shure

[AutographCollector]

i wrote a letter to mark buehrle once, and he gave me a note saying "jim, nice letter, i shared it with the guys on the team and they were crackin up". so idk mabye they only share ones that stick out? im not shure


Interesting. What did your letter say?

[TigersFanB406]

Interesting. What did your letter say?

It said , "you'll never get a no-hitter you sack of you know what." lol

[TigersFanB406]

I see nothing wrong with telling a guy he's your favourite player if he really is. I think they can probably smell a phony so if a guy is your favourite player, just tell him.

I wrote to Halladay that I was a fan of his though. And I don't see a problem with sending multiple requests to a team at the same time. I just sent out four to Blue Jays today.

[Pods fan 22]

Interesting. What did your letter say?

i Told him about the time i was about 10 years old and he signed a ball and through it in the stands, and i swore i was never going to cheer for him again, but then he quicky beacame my favorite player, but never got his autograph. And then i told him i was going to sell everything he signed for me on ebay, with a big just kidding. i also sent him a picture of me at the game after that happend, it looked like i was gona bust out in tears lol.

Idk it was my first letter i ever did via TTM, probley the most personal one i have made yet.

[TigersFanB406]

Here I was hoping you said he'd never throw a no hitter. :p :)

[wake49]

I think it's perfectly fine to send multiple requests to the same team. However, I think it's bad form to send multiple requests to the same player(s) over and over again. I think that's why many players have stopped signing TTM altogether.

[TigersFanB406]

I agree. I wouldn't want to keep sending to the same player over and over again. Unless it's my favourite player in which case, I'd wait a year or so. I don't want to ruin the hobby.