Today the Twin Cities Sports Collectors Club had 1980 US Olympic hockey player Mike Ramsey at the show to sign autographs. Since I have been loosely working on the two Sports Illustrated magazines featuring them on the cover, I thought I would add Mike to them. Mike was very nice and did a great job of signing them. I now have six of the players on each SI.
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Tip your Capp to Swarzak
Today was a typical Kemp’s Kids Day autograph session. Since I went to the game with Cami and she is all about autographs, we waited in line. It appeared in the beginning that we might not have a shot but they moved the line along really fast and Cami was able to get both Matt Capps and Anthony Swarzak to sign a Target Field Upper Deck card for her collection. She was really excited!
Touch ’em All!
Today was the Twin Cities Sports Collectors Club monthly card show. I have been going to the show for years but just recently decided to become a member. A life member at that. Dave B and his crew do a great job when autograph guests are there. A number of dealers there recognize me from over the years and are always kind to me. It is a great group of people!
Today the TCSCC had a couple autograph guests. One was the Twins radio broadcaster for a number of years, John Gordon. Gordo has been calling Twins games since 1987 and I fell asleep a number of times listening to him and the late Herb Carneal calling the games. John is retiring after this season so I thought this would be a cool way to get some of the Twins team cards signed for my team sets I have been working on. They were accepting donations for his autograph which went to a favorite charity of his, Fellowship of Christian Athletes. I got there and purchased a photo and had five cards to get signed. John was his normal, friendly self and graciously signed everything with “Touch ’em All!” I donated $30 for the following autographs:
OMLB
8×10 photo of him in the Target Field stands
8×10 photo of him in the Target Field stands
2001 Team Card
2003 Team Card (“Oh! This was taken at the Metrodome!”)
2007 Team Card
2010 Franchise History
and Cami wanted a card for her to which he signed “To Camden, ‘Touch ’em All!'”
That was a neat way to knock off some of the team cards I needed for my set.
Later on in the day the TCSCC also had 1980 US Olympic Hockey player Buzz Schneider signing autographs for $5 each. Since I had the two Sports Illustrated magazines with the Olympic hockey team on it signed by four guys on each already, I thought I would get Buzz to sign them too. He was very nice and shook my hand after signing each one.
While killing time between guests, I chatted with Mike and enjoyed talking with him and a couple dealers there. I am already looking forward to next month when Mike Ramsey will be there and I can get him on the SI magazines too!
Thanks Mate!
Today was a game we anticipated since the beginning of the season. I bought
four tickets so all of us could go to the pregame mascot softball game.
Usually it is just me and one of the kids but they both wanted to go and Amy
decided she would like to go so I bought the tickets as part of the season
ticket holder presale. Since it was team bat day, the kids wanted a bat so
that meant we would have to get there around the time the gates opened to
make sure they got one. We got to the ballpark just as gates were opening so
the kids got their bats. Then we headed to see who was signing the
autographs for the kids and found out it was Drew Butera and Luke Hughes. I
had a card for Hughes and asked Cami if she would get it signed for me. Of
course she said she would (she is awesome when it comes to autograph stuff).
She wanted to get her ticket signed by Butera so she and I waited in the
concourse area. Caden and Amy headed to our seats. As we got to the table,
she gave Drew her ticket and he signed it and thanked him. I told her to say
“Hi mate!” to Hughes since he is from Australia. As I told her that, Butera
stopped signing for the kid behind us and said “I gotta hear this!” and
leaned in to hear Cami say hi. She said no to me and Luke signed the card
and handed it back to her. I told her to say “Thanks mate!” and again she
said no and just said thank you. Luke said “Thanks mate!” to Cami. It was
funny. We ended up heading to our seats then. Of course they were in the
sun (the overlook section) and it was H O T! We watched the mascot game.
After the National Anthem, Amy and Cami went to get some stuff for us to
eat. When they came back, Cami said she felt like puking because she was so
hot. We ended up leaving in the middle of the first inning. That was a
bummer but we were at least able to enjoy a mascot game! We got home and
laid around watching the game and after an hour or so in the air conditioned
house, all was fine.