CC Sabathia

Superstar Yankees Pitcher, CC Sabathia!  Well worth the wait.  Thanks, CC, and good luck this year!

Mailed: 2-16-16
Received Back: 1-28-17
Turnaround Time: 347 Days

January 2016 Failure List

The first "timed-out" list of players I wrote to in January 2016 that I haven't heard back from yet.  I will still update if I hear back from them.
Dikembe Mutombo
Hank Aaron
Joe Carter
Mariano Rivera
Matt Hasselbeck
Michael Irvin
Mike Piazza
Nate Archibald
Reggie Miller
Barry Larkin
Bruce Smith
David Robinson
Eric Dickerson
Gary Payton
Jeremy Lin
Jerry West
Paul Molitor
Rafael Palmeiro
Rod Carew
Toni Kukoc
Aaron Rodgers
Curt Schilling
Dennis Eckersley
Drew Bledsoe
Jordy Nelson
Paul O'Neill
Scott Brosius
Tom Glavine
Warren Moon

Top 10 for 2016

Well, it's been many months since I sent out any autograph requests, and nearly two months since I got one back, but I'll send some out early in 2017, probably largely on a day when I'm snowed-in.  At the end of January, I'll start reporting failures where a year has lapsed without a response as well.  Meanwhile, here's my Top 10 list out of the 56 ATTM I've gotten in 2016!

10: Goose Gossage (MLB HOFer and legendary Yankees reliever!)
9: Bobby Doerr (the oldest living MLB HOFer at 98 and still signing through the mail!)
8: Dirk Nowitzki (among the greatest to ever play in the NBA!)
7: Kurt Warner (one of my favorite QBs ever, a Christian, and a great guy off-the-field!)
6: Bob Lilly (one of the top few defensive players ever to play in the NFL!)
5: Terry Bradshaw (the first QB to win four Super Bowls and a great personality!)
4: Troy Aikman (my favorite QB growing up and a three-time Super Bowl Champion!)
3: Hideki Matsui (a hard signature to obtain, and the 2009 World Series MVP!)
2: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Roger Murdock--also the all-time NBA scoring leader!)
1: Shaquille O'Neal (the man, the myth, the legend--one of the greatest of all-time!)

Mike Schmidt

SCHMIDT!!!  Well worth the wait for a signature of this legendary 3B.  Thanks, Mike!

LATE EDIT: It appears that this is unlikely to be authentic, but rather ghost-signed.

Mailed: 1-28-16
Received Back: 11-3-16
Turnaround Time: 280 Days

Mark Brunell with a Verse

I asked Mark, a fellow Christian, to sign and add a favorite Bible Verse, so this is pretty awesome!

Mailed: 4-20-16
Received Back: 10-8-16
Turnaround Time: 171 Days

Is Ray Allen Coming Back?

No autograph, but interesting reply nonetheless...

No Autograph but Still a Class Act

Vin Scully is retiring at the end of the year and is a legendary broadcaster and class act.  He's probably getting a lot of autograph requests this year, so I guess he can't answer all of them.