Spring Has Sprung Again!

With today being the season opener for the Twins, MY calendar just flipped to summer so Happy Summer everyone!  Even though is it “summer”, I received a couple spring packages today.  Three to be exact!  What a great mail day!  I have a couple more spring packages on their way to me but today was a nice start.

The first box I opened was from Matt M (mightyswede on SCN).  Matt hits the Florida spring training scene for me and came up with the following:
Wil Myers ML Debut ticket (gorgeous!)
Nick Markakis SI (already signed by Adam Jones)
Jason Grilli SI
Great job Matt and thanks!

The next box I opened was from Christian B (hheroes10 on SCN).  As I mentioned in the past, Christian has been getting me autographs in Arizona for a long, long time.  At least five years between the Arizona Fall League and spring training.  This spring he got me the following:
Addison Reed OMLB
Adam Eaton OMLB
Wade Miley ML Debut ticket with inscription
Mark Trumbo ML Debut ticket
Tommy Lasorda SI
Christian does a great job and I cannot wait to send him my list of guys for the AZ Fall League!  Thanks Christian!

The last box I opened was from my guy Paul C who works the Ft Myers area for me during spring as well as during the Florida State League minor league season.  This was the final box of spring training items and he did not disappoint!  The box from him contained the following baseballs:
Mookie Betts
Byron Buxton
Anthony Ranaudo
Bryce Brentz
Barry Larkin with HOF (beautiful!)
Koji Uehara
Another great box from Paul!  Thanks for all the great baseballs!

I look forward to receiving the next boxes of goodies from my friends who work spring training for me!

Another Spring Training Package

A person who has been mentioned a few times in my blog over the years is Joshua S (jslaw on SCN).  Josh has gotten me a lot of great autographs over the last couple spring training years and this year was no exception.  Today I received a box of items Josh got signed for me this month in Florida.  In it was:
Julio Teheran OMLB
Will Middlebrooks debut ticket
Jackie Bradley Jr debut ticket
David Price regional SI from 04.01.2013
Jonathan Papelbon SI from 10.01.2007
Jonathan Papelbon SI from 11.05.2007
All these are signed real nice.  Josh is another guy who does a great job for me throughout the year.  Thanks Josh!

That’s the ticket by George!

Today I received my 3000th hit ticket signed by George Brett in the mail.  I am stoked!  I had this ticket for a while and George does not do many shows but Tom Orr (orr23mj on SCN) got a private signing with him so I knew I had to send in the ticket.  I got the inscription 3000th Hit on it too.  It turned out great.  Tom does a great job and takes care of your items as if they were his.  Thanks Tom!

Spring Has Sprung!

Today I received the first of a couple packages from a pair of guys from SCN who are working spring training teams in Arizona.  Ethan (ethanoah) and Kent (doggle3) did a great job so far.  It is obvious they treated my items as if they were their own.  All the autographs are perfect and beautiful.  They did a great job and are still working on more the last few weeks of spring training.

Today I got in:
Jason Kipnis OMLB
Brian Wilson OMLB
Hyun-Jin Ryu OMLB
Patrick Corbin OMLB
Mike Olt OMLB
Jose Dariel Abreu OMLB
Archie Bradley OMLB
Clayton Kershaw ML Debut Ticket
Chris Sale ML Debut Ticket
Conor Gillaspie 1st HR Ticket
Jarrod Parker ML Debut Ticket
Jim Thome 2011 Allen & Ginter #204
Jim Thome 2011 Topps #304

Like I said above, these guys took care of my stuff as if they were their own.  I cannot wait to see what else they are able to get signed for me as spring training winds down!

Thanks guys!