[rjcj2017]

All I know is, as a Tigers fan, I am extremely jealous ... although I do have a couple of Mark "The Bird" Fydrich IP autos that my grandpa got for me a few years ago.

He and my grandma actually lived right across the street from the mall (built years after their house was, LOL), so he would go when he read about appearances in the local paper.

He said they usually sold cards of the player for like a dollar right by the signing table, so he got me Fydrich, Barbaro Garbey (!), Dave Rozema, Denny McLain and Willie Horton.

Then, when I would come visit in the summertime, he would give me the cards he had collected for me throughout the year.

I guess my best TTM auto would be this guy here:





What's cool about this is I sent it to him in like June or July of his rookie year, and then got it back in Oct. 2012, with a South Jersey postmark.

The same day of the postmark, he posted this on Facebook:





Great thread, thanks for all the Tigers pics.