Ron Guidry TTM Success

Sent: 12/7/2019 | Received: 12/16/2019 | 9 days
1/1: 1981 Fleer Star Sticker

Address: Home (Scott, LA) from SportsCollectors.Net

It’s a bit over the top to compare my 2019 pursuit of “Gator” to Ahab’s obsessive quest for Moby Dick or the Yankees 11-year effort to land Gerrit Cole, but it has been vexing. Today, after two previously unsuccessful attempts, the white whale landed.

Guidry was one of the very first TTMs I sent back in Spring Training. I tried him through the Yankees through their Tampa ST complex. It doesn’t seem he signed this spring. I tried him mid-summer at his home (the same SCN-sourced address that was at last successful).

For the last month or so, I’ve been privately stewing as others have posted their own successes. I resent a little over a week ago. Third times the charm.

[Editor’s note: The writer is aware that this is a common TTM occurrence and is portraying himself as an entitled diva complaining about a free experience, which ended successfully, because it took a couple attempts. He is thin-skinned and, indeed, prone to the feelings of the entitled.]

Ron Guidry, of course, played his entire 14-year career in pinstripes. “Louisiana Lightning” was a member of two World Series-winning teams (1977 & 1978). His Cy Young Award winning 1978 season was superb: a 1.74 ERA over 273.2 innings, 248 strikeouts, and a 0.946 WHIP, while posting a 25-3 record. Guidry was a four-time All Star, served as captain of the Yankees beginning in 1986. In 2003, the Yankees retired Guidry’s #49 and unveiled a plaque dedicated to him in Monument Park.

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1981 Fleer Star Sticker Set Progress: 26 of 125 (20.8%)

Incidentally, I reworked my 1981 Fleer Star Sticker page; it was a pain in the a--. That said, it looks much better on mobile now. Mission accomplished.