My son has been going with a couple teammates from his baseball team to a local baseball training place and his primary hitting coach is Michael Kvasnicka. I enjoy watching Michael and the boys interact and I have certainly seen a great improvement with Caden’s hitting. I thought it would be cool to get some of Michael’s cards to give the kids to get signed after one of their hitting sessions. Tonight was the night. After hitting, Caden and his friend Blake went to Michael’s office and asked if he would sign some cards for him. I ended up going there a few minutes later and had a short chat about baseball stuff for a little bit. It was really cool. Michael signed his Gophers cards but I made a rookie mistake and did not prep the Topps Pro Debut thinking the Steadtler would be fine. Even that beaded up so he said he would sign them after I prepped them. While chatting with him, I told him that I had gotten one of the Pro Debut cards signed at Twinsfest a few years ago. He told me he remembered me. (I doubted it but still thought it was cool). While looking for other cards of his I came across Jay and asked if it was his dad or uncle. It turned out his dad was drafted by the Twins and played in the Twins system just like Michael. I thought that was really neat. I will prep the cards and let the kids in Caden’s hitting sessions have them to get signed. I think that is pretty cool.
Today Caden, Cami, Cami’s friend Skyla and I all went to the Hall of Fame exhibit by the Mall of America. It was really neat. While there, Juan Berenguer was signing autographs. We did not know that until we got there so we did not have anything for him to sign but the kids got their exhibit tickets signed. Afterwards was the coolest part of the experience. I told Cami to go up to Juan and ask him to hit his fist and throw his hand in the air like he did in 1987. He did it for her and laughed. I asked him what was in his briefcase that he was always seen carrying around. He laughed and said just photos of his family. He said he was afraid of flying so he always looked at them and said a quick prayer “in case they were going down.” It was pretty dang funny. Juan was full of smiles and had a lot of fun interacting with us.
While on our family vacation, we went to an Oakland A’s home game and Cami had the time of her life at the game.
Before the game she got the following players on signature cards:
Bruce Maxwell
Ross Detwiler
Ron Washington
During the game she had the aisle seat and after each top of the inning finished, she ran down a couple rows above the dugout with her glove to try to get a ball. After the top of the 3rd inning finished, Max Muncy tossed the final out ball to her! She was PUMPED!
If that was not enough, she ended up getting on the big screen waving her hand later in the game!
She will not soon forget going to the A’s game!
Today we went on a tour of Alcatraz while on our trip to San Francisco. We were all pretty excited about it but it turned out to be even neater than we thought.
After the tour, Bill Baker, a former inmate at Alcatraz, was signing his book. Of course Cami could not pass up getting him to sign her National Parks passport as well as a book we bought. Mr Baker was inmate number 1259 at Alcatraz and was incarcerated from 1961-1963 there. We chatted with him for a couple minutes after he signed her book.
During the game she had the aisle seat and after each top of the inning finished, she ran down a couple rows above the dugout with her glove to try to get a ball. After the top of the 3rd inning finished, Max Muncy tossed the final out ball to her! She was PUMPED!
If that was not enough, she ended up getting on the big screen waving her hand later in the game!
She will not soon forget going to the A’s game! 