A Couple Months of 'Homemade Hockey' Returns

[steveottfan]

I don't really have anywhere else to share this unusual hobby and the cards I've created so posting them here
These collections all started with a few oddballs and then when I started making the cards to send to pop culture people and other sports players, it grew exponentially. I have a binder full of autographs for pretty much each of these little collections. You can see the others on my older mail posts.
I'm a hockey only guy and I enjoy the TTM hobby but having gotten a signature of pretty much all living NHLers, this fills the void and I have lots of fun making these cards and researching the stories. Similar to other times I've posted these cards, I've scanned the backs so you can read the hockey connection if interested. The hockey 'connections' here range from very notable to just a small hockey thing.

These are the new 'oddball' additions. My main collection of NHL autographs continues to grow. You can see my August additions for that collection here and I'm currently at 6,700 of 7,746 players for 86% of everyone to every play in the league. I'm approaching a big personal milestone of having the wantlist under 1,000 players.


Immortalized on the Stanley Cup

Paul DeFazio

Lou Centanni Jr.
This was still the best photo I could find of him!

Mark Yannetti
Yannetti literally sent me a box full of awesome Kings stuff. It included an NHL licensed Kings tracksuit and really nice hat. Took over a year to hear back from him so talk about an unexpected surprise!

Kelly Kirwin


Pucks & Pop Culture

Bob Newhart

Peter Bonerz

Steve Wozniak

Leah Remini

Timothy Hutton

Graham Shiels

Eric Nenninger

Scott Hamilton

Gary Paulsen

Dan Rather

Sean Giambrone

Tad Stones

Fionnula Flanagan

Christopher McDonald

Tovah Feldshuh

Suzy Bogguss

Peter Marshall

C.J. Graham

Victor Miller

Warren Munson


Home Run Hockey

Buck Showalter

Josh Collmenter

Nick Solak

Jim Rantz

Jim Eisenreich

Chris Volstad

Rene Lachemann

Bill DeWitt III


Touchdown Hockey

Aeneas Williams

Rolf Benirschke

Rex Ryan

Matt Spaeth

Stephen Gostkowski

Eric Hipple

Jim Sweeney

Neil O'Donnell

Ted Albrecht

Karl Mecklenburg


Racing

Darrell Waltrip

Austin Dillon

Graham Rahal

Garth Rickards

Jeb Burton

Eric Jones

Jesse Little

Quin Houff

Regan Smith

P.J. Jones


Random sets

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Phil Jackson

Shawn Marion

Scot Pollard

Jerry Sags

Barry Darsow

David Love III

Johnny Miller

Craig Stadler

Herb Fritch

Harry McNeely
McNeely sent me back a really sweet note written by his daughter. He's getting up in age but still watches hockey regularly and wanted me to have little gift, which was a sweet Minnesota North Stars hat. Its a new old stock hat and really cool.

 

[japhi]

I freakin love this project and there are some good names in there. Love the Woz.

Are these all ttm or for guys like Kareem are you finding paid signings?

 

[HammerHawks]

So cool as always! Keep them coming!

 

[steveottfan]

I freakin love this project and there are some good names in there. Love the Woz.

Are these all ttm or for guys like Kareem are you finding paid signings?

Thanks!
Just a couple of these had a small fee with almost all being free.
I purchased an unrelated item from Kareem's shop some time ago and had asked if I could also send him a custom card to sign as it was a decent priced item I had bought. They said no problem so the answer for that one would be yes and no.

 

[capsfan30]

Such an amazing show. Congrats and keep up the hard work!

 

[creasecollector]

Thanks for another great show. It's so fun scrolling through your posts. I really enjoy the Immortalized On The Stanley Cup set! I'm sure they are just as thrilled (dare I say, if not a little more) to be on there as some of the players! Who would have thunk it?

 

[CeddieB]

Always enjoy these updates. I like that the Woz has his own COA stickers!