Today was an awesome day. It started with Cami and I heading to Ridgedale Mall where Danny Santana and Kennys Vargas were signing autographs at Fan HQ. I had purchased my tickets a while ago which was great because they sold out. Fan HQ did a great job because English is not their primary language and inscriptions were offered. What they did was wrote down the inscription on index cards so you could give them to the player so they knew what to write. We got to Kennys first. He is a big strong man! I handed him a ticket from his ML Debut game and the index card with the inscription and he signed it. Then it was a baseball card for Cami. Then it was a baseball and then a final ticket from his first home run game with inscription. Cami then said “Gracias!” and Kennys looked up and his eyes got real big and went “OOOOooooooOOOOOooooo!” and smiled as he was surprised Cami knew (a little) Spanish. That was Cami’s most favorite moment of the whole day. We then went to Danny and got him on a ball and a card for Caden and lastly a ticket from his first home run game with inscription. Shaun H did a great job running the signing at Fan HQ. Cami and I walked away with smiles from ear to ear and an awesome memory.
Once we got home and got the mail I found a couple packages of signed stuff. The first was an envelope I sent in to a Gregory Polonco signing in Pittsburgh through 1st and Goal Sports. In it was a ticket signed by Polonco with MLB Debut on it. It looks phenomenal.
The last package I opened was from my friend Paul C in Florida. He has been working the Instructional Leagues for me down there and mailed the following blue ink sweetspot baseballs from the Rays prospects:
Taylor Guerrieri with “2011 1st Rd”
Andrew Toles
Kean Wong with “Go Rays!!”
Willy Adames with “Go Rays!!”
Casey Gillaspie
Another great batch of baseballs from Paul! He texted me today and told me he already got me three autographs from my current want list I sent him!
All in all it was an AWESOME day of adding items to the autograph collection!