Collecting TTM

Postal Service American Journalists Stamps [05/12/2008]

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has released an American Journalists stamp set. The new stamps have a face value of 42 cents, and have artwork featuring the following five journalists.

Martha Gellhorn
John Hersey
George Polk
Ruben Salazar
Eric Sevareid

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Stamp Price Increase May 12 2008 [05/12/2008]

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has hit us with another stamp price increase as of May 12, 2008. The new 1st class stamps are now $0.42 for a first class envelope after the latest price increase. MORE...

MailboxAutographs.net Interview [05/11/2008]

Brett from MailboxAutographs.net asked if he could interview me, and post it on his site. If you haven't seen his site already, go take a look! It's updated daily, and is filled with lot's of useful TTM info. MORE...

Detroit Tigers Autographs for a Cause [04/30/2008]

Teams such as the Detroit Tigers offer Player Fan Mail for Charity Programs. Jeremy Bonderman and the Detroit Tigers Foundation created a program called Autographs for a Cause. MORE...

NFL Draft New Crop Of TTM Superstars [04/28/2008]

After months of paging through countless NFL Mock Drafts to see who your team might be drafting in 2008, the draft is now complete, and a new wave of future superstars are on the way. Sure it's WAY TOO EARLY to send out football requests, but for those of you looking for a head start on writing your letters, I've compiled a list of the first round players chosen, and their team addresses. MORE...

Colorado Rockies Foundation Autographs [04/28/2008]

Teams such as the Colorado Rockies offer Player Fan Mail for Charity Programs. If you make out a check or money order for $25 (per autograph) towards the "Colorado Rockies Foundation" you can get your item autographed through the mail. MORE...

Fan Packs [04/19/2008]

You may see the fan packs successes listed on our site, and asked yourself, what exactly are fan packs? Fan packs are usually free stuff that teams give out to help promote the team.

The items that most teams send are pocket schedules, Stickers, oversized player cards, and trading cards, but we've also received bookmarks, dog tags, inflatable headsets, check book covers, calendars, pencils, pens, mascot merchandise, key chains, club information pamphlets, fan club application forms, autographed items, and a bag of fenway park infield dirt. MORE...

2008 MLB Pitching Coaches [04/15/2008]

With Alex, getting closer to that little league age, I've decided to seek help from the professional pitching instructors from the major league baseball teams, to hopefully pass on their knowledge, in what we hope may be the first steps towards the majors.

Our next batch of Autograph requests will hopefully contain lots of words of wisdom and useful tips from the MLB pitching coaches around baseball. If you think this would also be a cool idea, and would like to do the same, I've compiled a list of the pitching coaches for 2008 along with their team's mailing addresses. MORE...

MLB Mascots [04/13/2008]

One of the fun aspects of baseball for kids are the MLB mascots. In today's high priced world of baseball, they are probably the last thing that actually reminds us that this is actually a kids game being played by adults. Between memorabilia dealers, skyrocketing salaries, and the accompanying ticket prices, it sometimes seems that teams are trying to squeeze every last cent out of their fans.

For those of you with kids, I've compiled a list of MLB mascots, and links to coloring pages on MLB.com. I've also included mailing addresses if you'd like to take the time out to contact the mascots, and see what comes back in your mailboxes. MORE...