Author: Kevin

Kids Day at the Ballpark

As I mentioned in the past, Sunday mornings the Twins have a special autograph signing event for kids and Cami HAS to go to every Sunday game I have tickets for specifically for that reason.  Today I was able to get a couple tickets to bring Caden and his friend down to the game with Cami and I.  We got there early enough and found out that Kyle Gibson and Logan Darnell were the two players signing today.  Cami got her baseball from last year signed by both players while Caden did not care about the autographs and got me a 2013 Topps Heritage high number card signed.  Caden’s friend Gabe got a ball he had signed.  He was pretty excited to try that for the first time.  We all had a blast watching the Twins beat the Orioles too!

SI Day!

Today was a great day for my Sports Illustrated collection.  I received two packages that had SI’s in them.  The first was my 2012 issue that featured three Baltimore Orioles on the cover.  It was signed by Adam Jones and Nick Markakis already and just needed Endy Chavez.  My friend Greg N (justgreg on SCN) was able to get him to finish it off as Endy is now playing for the Tacoma Rainiers (Greg’s home team).  Greg was awesome and got it signed a day or two after he got it.  One of the fastest turnaround times ever!  THANK YOU for everything Greg!

The next package contained a pair of the same issue that Sergio Romo signed for me.  J Carr (graphmanj on SCN) was involved in a signing via LOJO Sports and got the pair of 2012 issues signed by Sergio for me.

Just a Ball

Today I got just a ball.  It was packaged well and looks awesome.  It is Tony Cingrani who is a good young fireball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds.  I bought it from Chris M (crazybob60 on SCN).

An interesting fact on Tony is “Since 1914, which is as far back as game logs go, Cingrani holds the record for most consecutive starts with five or fewer hits allowed.”  I found this here.  Pretty impressive!