Today I received a Sports Illustrated magazine I had sent to J Carr (graphmanj on SCN) for a signing sponsored by LoJo Sports for Ryan Zimmerman. The issue was already signed by Ryan Braun and Justin Upton so to get Zimmerman on it makes it even cooler. I now have half the players on the cover to sign it!
Author: Kevin
Hammer-Time!
Today Josh Willingham and Drew Butera were signing autographs at the Festival Foods in Brooklyn Park from 10:30 to 11:30. Cami and I decided to head up there and got there around 9am. We were numbers 79 and 80 in line. I tried to talk Cami out of getting Willingham to sign her baseball and to sign an extra card of mine but there was nothing doing there! So, we got up to the table and Drew Butera signed her baseball and asked where she got the pretty Twins shirt. Cami smiled and said Justice! I got a ticket from the game Drew got his first Major League hit in and asked him to sign it with 1st MLB Hit and he did. It turned out real nice.
Then we went to the Hammer. He said hi to Cami and signed her baseball. He then signed a 2012 Allen & Ginter card for me. We headed home happy!
I must say that the person who ran the event (I think she said her name was Julie) did an INCREDIBLE job. She kept everyone up to date and provided Klements brats, beverages, Old Dutch potato chips, Kemps ice cream. She was friendly and was happy to be there. Kudos to Julie and everyone else at Festival Foods!
“Mega”zines!
Today I received the other end of a trade I recently made with Tim M (jmac25 on SCN). Tim runs SportsIllustratedIssues.com. I had a couple extra SI’s and asked him if he needed any. He picked out a real nice 1956 issue that I had signed by 4 players with the best being Stan Musial. He also needed a Greg Vaughn regional issue from 1998. I sent those two issues to him and in return, he sent me the following:
1970 Tigers issue signed by Denny McLain
1978 Yankees issue signed by Fred Stanley
1985 Royals issue signed by Hal McRae
1986 Mets issue signed by Ron Darling
2003 Angels issue signed by Ryan Budde and Steve Soliz
I am very pleased with the quality of the magazines and hope to trade with Tim again someday!
Thanks Mate!
My buddy Greg N (justgreg on SCN) has been mentioned a few times in this blog. He came through for me again! Today I received a couple awesome signed items from when Luke Hughes visited the Tacoma Raniers. Greg got Luke on his ML Debut ticket when he hit a HR in his first at bat as well as on the 2011 Topps Heritage card already signed by Plouffe. AWESOME items! THANKS pal!