I'll take the first one!

[DFWGrapher]

An intro section with no intros? Don't mind if I do...

Hi. I'm Drew. You may know me from a few places. The Bench where I am known as HockeyBrawler. SportsCardForum where I am called *censored*. Or several other places where I am called DFWGrapher (such as my website, DFWGrapher.com).

I dabbled in both in-person and TTM autographs from 1992-2002, mailing a few and getting autographs at card shows and such, occasionally at ballgames. I concentrated on hockey and baseball, with occasional dips into football, basketball, and soccer.

I started in-person graphing on a serious basis in 2003 when I was in college in Boston, living close to the hotels that all the hockey teams stayed in. This expended to collecting baseball since they were at the same hotels, and basketball since they were at the same hotels at the same time. Picture this: as the Ottawa Senators pull up to their hotel, the Memphis Grizzlies are leaving-- or vice versa. So I started carrying basketball stuff with me anytime I went for hockey!

I got serious on the TTMing around 2007 or so since I had moved to the middle of nowhere in North Texas and couldn't get autographs easily except for my one to two trips a year to Dallas or Oklahoma City.

Currently, I work for a card company as a photo editor. On the side, I host the TTMCast podcast: following Jeff Baker's untimely death, I took over the full hosting duties after being co-host since May of 2021. I also write a weekly column for Sports Collectors Daily.

As for the main things I collect, I'm working on getting several card sets completely signed. You can see those on my website. I also like getting Hall of Famers' rookie cards signed anytime I can. Unsigned, I collect cards and other items from Cory Snyder, Borje Salming, and George Brunet.

So hello there. And go check out the TTMCast podcast!

 

[kclj520]

Drew, so happy to see you here, remember you well from both SCF and the Bench!

Cheers!

Kevin

 

[Firefighter954]

Hello.... I am Bryan... I am fairly new to the whole TTM scene. I am hitting it hard sending out lots of requests so we will see how that goes. I am on the Bench and SCN as well. I have always been a card collector since I was younger. I got out of it for a while and now have picked it back up. I am going back and completing sets that I had started and getting the cards from my childhood that I couldn't quite afford at the time. I have gotten my son into collecting now and have also got him started down the TTM path as well. I will keep updating my successes and failures as they come back in. So far it has been a great experience....

 

[Mike]

Hello.... I am Bryan... I am fairly new to the whole TTM scene. I am hitting it hard sending out lots of requests so we will see how that goes. I am on the Bench and SCN as well. I have always been a card collector since I was younger. I got out of it for a while and now have picked it back up. I am going back and completing sets that I had started and getting the cards from my childhood that I couldn't quite afford at the time. I have gotten my son into collecting now and have also got him started down the TTM path as well. I will keep updating my successes and failures as they come back in. So far it has been a great experience....

Welcome aboard Bryan! Nice to see all your successes. I've got a few cards incoming (finally) so I can send out to a few of the folks whose addresses you have posted. Looking forward to seeing many more returns from you!