Laziness creeps in...
I only mailed off three requests in the soccer world in the previous six months.
I tend to send off first to players that I have several different cards of. It maximizes the return on my postage investment. But after a while in these Pacific sets, I ran out of players with cards in multiple sets.
It's time to bite the bullet, I guess: this month I'll be sending off a bunch of one-card wonders and re-tries. I've already mailed a few and have another bunch ready to write. Already sent on May 16:
Roy Turner (already received in under a week!)
Glenn Carbonara (received in a week!)
Chico Moreira#
Shawn Medved (received!)
Steve Zungul*
Hugo Perez
Rudy Pikuzinski (received!)
Marcelo Carrera
Ralph Black* (received!)
Mark Frederickson#
Bobby Joe Esposito
Dennis Mepham#
Juli Veee
Gary Heale*
Ben Collins*
Ricky Davis*
Goran Hunjak (received!)
Hank Henry
Rod Castro (received!)
Ed Gettemeier (received!)
Thompson Usiyan* (received!)
Rene Ortiz (received!)
I already had successes with some of these guys, but picked up cards I was missing, or have multi-signed cards to send. Those players are marked with an asterisk (*) above. Market with a pound (#) are players I've tried and failed with before so I'll retry with new addresses.
Coming up on the to-be-mailed list:
Al Smith (Sent 5/24)
Jim Schwab (Sent 5/24)
Mike Uremovich (Sent 5/24)
Lynn Venable (Sent 5/24)
Savva Biller (Sent 5/24)
Todd Strobeck (Sent 5/24)
Gino Schiraldi (Sent 5/24)
John Klein (Sent 5/25)
Chris Duke (Sent 5/25)
Mark Mathews (Sent 5/25)
Redmond Lane (Sent 5/25)
Arturo Velazco (Sent 5/25)
Ed Anibal (Sent 5/25)
Jacques Ladouceur (Sent 5/25)
David Banks (Sent 5/25)
Alex Golovnia (Sent 5/25)
Frank Klopas (Sent 5/30)
Teddy Krafft (Sent 5/30)
Guy Furfaro (Sent 5/30)
Keder (Sent 5/30)
David Eise (Sent 5/30)
Angelo Panzetta (Sent 5/30)
Vincent Beck (Sent 5/30)
Chris Simon (Sent 5/30)
Chris Reif (Sent 5/30)
Greg Muhr (Sent 5/30)
Denny Vaninger
John Hamel
Danny Pena
Brad Smith
Jimmy McGeough
Dick McCormickMark Moser
So I'll be a little busy getting writer's cramp the next few days/weeks. I also have a few requests in other sports to write, trying to make a few trades, hitting up two baseball games, and playing two concerts, so hopefully I'll have some successes on those first few come rolling in to keep me motivated.
I'm holding off on mailing to anyone I'm missing cards of. I'd prefer not to have to send multiple times to the same player if I can avoid it. I've already done it before, and when I have to, I try to space out a year in between mailings. This includes Alan Hinton, Nenad Zigante, Scoop Stanisic, Jim Gabarra, Joey Kirk, Andy Chapman, Beto Dos Santos, Pato Margetic, Michael King, Bernie James, Mike Sweeney, Preki Radoslavojevic, Kia Zolgharnain, Brian Quinn, Paul Wright, David Hoggan, and Bill Crook.
