Player PCs:
Mickey Tettleton (over 400+ uniques, still looking for rare and oddball cards and all memorabilia. I would also be interested in any kind of memorabilia related to the Danville Otterbots where he is currently the Manager.
Team PCs:
LSU Tigers. I am always interested in any current or former LSU players from any sport. The 2019 championship team is what got me back into cards again going after the superstars from that team.
Texas Rangers. Mostly interested between mid 90s and current.
New Orleans Saints. Definitely one of my smaller interests, but I'm always interested in autos/mem/#'d Saints cards. (double points if they played for LSU as well such as Tyrann Mathieu, Foster Moreau, Devery Henderson, Jarvis Landry)
Oddball PC:
Recently I started a new attempt at collecting auto cards where the signature is just terrible, lazy, unique, or even over the top impressive looking.
A little (turned into a long) background into my collecting.
When I was about 4 years old, my older sister who was 11 years old at the time played fastpitch softball, mainly as a catcher. She went to a kids camp day that was held at LSU every year where LSU players and some pros came in and did instruction, drills, and worked with the kids. At the end of the event there was always a time when all the players stood around and signed autographs. The big name there that year (I believe 1990) was Ben McDonald. He was out of LSU and went first in the MLB draft the year before to the Orioles the year before. During autograph time, he was heavily crowded with long waits for an autograph. As the story goes, my dad told my sister "hey lets go get that guy's autograph there aren't as many people around him AND he's a catcher!" so my sister went over to Mickey Tettleton (who I'm guessing came down from Baltimore with Ben McDonald for the event). He signed her glove and since there weren't as many people around he was able to give a more one on one personal experience to the kids. Well, as a small child, an actual autograph from an actual professional baseball player was just about the coolest thing I had ever seen or heard of and it fascinated me. So, over the next few years my mom and I checked the newspaper for box scores and followed Mickey Tettleton. He was obviously my favorite player because I got to see his real autograph on my big sister's glove! After a couple years my mom who started following this player for me got into following the Detroit Tigers who he played for, then onto the Texas Rangers where he ended his career. When I was old enough to start collecting cards I wanted every Mickey Tettleton card I could get my hands on, and I would trade a Ken Griffey Jr. for a new Mickey Tettleton in a heartbeat! I was also born into, raised, and currently a purple and gold bleeding LSU Tiger fan, which got me into collecting cards from former Tigers like Ben McDonald and Todd Walker. Like many kids, as I got older I fell out of collecting baseball cards as other hobbies took over.
Fun fact: I got to go to a Texas Rangers game back in 1996 and got to see Tettleton play his old team the Detroit Tigers. I didn't get to see him hit a homerun, but I did get to see something even more impressive, one of his 23 career stolen bases, one of only two total stolen bases in the last 4 seasons he played!
Fast forward many, many years... As an LSU fan, the 2019 LSU Championship team was truly a remarkable thing to experience. With so many superstars drafted from that team, it sparked my interest in collecting cards from those players, so I started going after every card I could get of any player from that team. This led to expanding collecting to more than just that team but to any former LSU player. Also, and more importantly, it reminded me that it was always my goal to have more Mickey Tettleton cards than anyone else, so I decided to make that a reality and here we are!
Site Ranking: (11/18/2024)
Mickey Tettleton #1 (415 uniques)
