Category: Sports Illustrated

It’s in the Mag(azine)!

Today was fun!  I received a surprise package from a friend of mine who is also working on getting me autographs in Arizona for spring training.  Kent B (doggle3 on SCN) knows I collect autographed tickets and sent me three tickets signed by Eric Hosmer including two from his ML Debut!  Thanks Kent!

Also, I met Aaron D who worked on some Sports Illustrated magazines for me over the past couple years.  Aaron works the hotels and ballparks here in the Cities.  He got me a Jeff Francoeur issue and Reed Johnson and Vernon Wells on their issue.  Thanks Aaron!

He Shoots, He Scores!

Today was the Let’s Play Hockey Expo at the Xcel Energy Center.  I have never been to the event before but I heard Bill Baker was there signing autographs for the Herb Brooks Foundation so I decided to attend.  I asked my buddy Tony F is he and his kids wanted to go and they did so Cami and I and those three headed down.  There was a ton of free stuff as well as the admission being free.  You could really spend a lot of time there without spending much money.  It was a great event.  Since Tony is way more into hockey than I am, I let him get my two 1980 US Hockey Team Sports Illustrated magazines signed.  Adding Bill made my total autograph number on each issue up to eight!

Spring Has Sprung!

One thing about being a member of so many collecting sites, I really have a lot of contacts in different parts of the country.  One such person is Josh S (jslaw on SCN).  Josh is going to school in Florida and this is the third spring I have sent consignments to him for Spring Training.  He does an awesome job and gets really hard to get people.  He treats my items as his own.  Today I received the first package of items he got for me so far this spring.  It included the following:

  • Jose Bautista baseball
  • Anthony Gose baseball
  • Brandon Beachy baseball
  • Craig Kimbrell baseball
  • Mike Stanton ML Debut ticket
  • Julio Teheran ML Debut ticket
  • Anthony Gose ML Debut ticket
  • Mike Matheny Sports Illustrated (completing the issue already signed by Mark Bellhorn)
  • Roy Halladay Sports Illustrated (completing the issue already signed by Josh Johnson and Ubaldo Jimenez)
  • Cole Hamels Sports Illustrated
  • Ryan Howard Sports Illustrated
  • Jon Jay Sports Illustrated
  • Edwardo Nunez Sports Illustrated

That is a pretty good list of All Stars and others!  Thanks Josh for the past, present and future consignments and caring for my items as if they were your own!