How to Get Baseball Autographs Through the Mail
It's easier than you might think to get your favorite players' autographs. Just ask for them through the mail. Receiving autographs through the mail is a fun and potentially profitable hobby that anyone can do. Sure, you could always fight the crowds at your local ball park and and hope to catch an available player who just happens to be in a good enough mood to sign something. But who wants to do that when it's much easier (and more fun) to get your autographs as described below?
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Instructions
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How to Get Baseball Autographs Through the Mail
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Locate the address of your player's team. The addresses of all major and minor league teams are easily found on the internet. You will be sending your request to the player care of the team they play for. To locate inactive or retired players' addresses, you may want to get a copy of The Baseball Address Book by Jack Smalling. It is updated regularly and is highly recommended by hard core autograph collectors.
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Write a short letter to your player in which you ask if he would please autograph the enclosed item. Rather than making it sound like a form letter, mention something specific in your letter about the player, his career, and/or his team that you remember and admire.
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Be polite. Address the player as “Mr.” and use “please” and “thank you” throughout.
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Enclose something small like a baseball card, photo, or index card that you'd like the player to sign.
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Include a self-addressed stamped envelope in your package. Make sure the postage is correct. This will demonstrate your sincerity and manners.
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Sit back and wait. Some players will respond faster than others. And, of course, some won't respond at all. But if you send out enough requests in a diligent fashion, you will get replies back. And seeing that familiar SASE in your mailbox will feel as good as attending a home opener.
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Tips & Warnings
Send your requests to lesser-known players at first. You'll have a better chance of getting a reply, as the top players are often inundated with an overwhelming amount of requests. Plus, you never know when one of these non-all stars will break out and make a big name for himself. And then you'll already have his autograph.
Keep a journal or log of who you've sent requests to and when. Sometimes it takes a long time to get a reply, and you wouldn't want to embarrass yourself by resending the request because you forgot you did already.
Find an online forum or website about autograph collecting where successes and failures are shared. Some players are known to be non-signers, and having that information beforehand can save you time and money.
Don't send anything through the mail you can't afford to lose.
Resources
- Photo Credit www.homeruncards.com
