Having a Ball

Today I received a baseball that Paul C got signed for me when there was spring training. Paul has gotten me a bunch of prospect baseballs in the past from the Florida State League as he lives in Ft Myers. This baseball I received was signed by Trevor Larnach and included his “2018 1st Rd” inscription. It looks awesome! Thanks Paul!

Some More Twins

Today I received my package from Courtland S (cort10 on SCN) who worked Florida spring training for me. He did a pretty great job with the shortened spring training. He hit the Yankees, Twins, and Tigers for me and got the following:
CJ Cron 2019 Topps Now 8/31 (which was already signed by Mitch Garver)
Jonathan Schoop 2019 Topps Heritage 456
Willians Astudillo 2019 Allen & Ginter 262
Byron Buxton 2019 Topps Heritage 539
Jake Cave 2019 Topps Heritage 660
Marwin Gonzalez 2019 Topps US 110 and US 173
Jake Odorizzi 2019 Topps Now Post Season
Jorge Polanco 2019 Topps Now Opening Day
Eddie Rosario 2019 Topps 258 and 2018 Gypsy Queen 61
Zach Granite 2018 Topps Heritage 99
Thanks a ton for your help Courtland! Great job! I cannot wait until next spring!

Some Twins

Today I received the first package from the few guys I trust who went to spring training. This package came from Fort Myers and had a bunch of Twins in it. Matt H (mattyice on SCN) lives in the Fort so he was able to get to a bunch of early workouts for me. This is my second spring sending him items and I am very pleased with what he got for me. Those items are:
Ryan Jeffers – OMLB
Lewis Thorpe – 1st Win ticket with “First ML W”
Luis Arraez – Triple play ticket from 07.22.2019
Randy Dobnak – Ticket with “1st MLB Save”
Alex Kirilloff – 2019 Bowman Next T15
Jake Cave – 2019 Gypsy Queen 156 & 2019 Topps Now Postseason
Jorge Polanco – 2019 Topps Now 4/5 & 2019 Topps Now 7/7 (said he remembered the play on the 7/7 card)
Marwin Gonzalez – 2019 Topps Heritage 553 & 2019 Topps Now Postseason
Max Kepler – 2019 Topps Now 7/21
Michael Pineda – 2019 Topps Heritage 662
Miguel Sano – 2017 Gypsy Queen 190
Mitch Garver – 2020 Topps 210 & 2020 Topps 18
Royce Lewis – 2019 Bowman Next T9
Matt did a fantastic job on my items! Thanks Matt!

It’s Killer Rob!

I was going through my signed business cards a week or so ago and noticed the one I had for my buddy Rob was from the Metrodome days. I emailed him and told him I needed to upgrade to a Target Field one. I figured I would get one next time I saw him. Well, today he surprised me with a signed business card. He even inscribed it with “0 Hits” (although that is not the case as he provided me a number of hits over the years). What makes this card really, really cool is that he signed it with a marker that Harmon Killebrew gave to him after he assisted at Twinsfest or the Autograph Party or some event like that. When Harmon was done signing he gave his marker (a Steadtler F point blue) to Rob and he has kept it all these years and used it to sign the card. THAT is pretty Killer!