Category: Baseballs

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!

Tune the Piano

Ok.  I admit it.  The title for this post is weak but if you bear with me, you will make the connection.  Jerry Trupiano (Piano) is a radio broadcaster (tune in the channel?) for the Boston Red Sox.  He was behind the microphone on 10/17/2004 for 2004 ALCS Game 4 when the Red Sox faced the Yankees.  The Yankees were up three games to none and no team, in any sport, ever came back in a seven game series after being down three games to none… until the 2004 Red Sox.  The champagne was on ice ready to be sprayed by the Yankees with the future Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera on the hill protecting a one run lead in the bottom of the ninth.  In one of the most exciting games in any League Championship Series history, the Red Sox scratched together a run off Mariano to force extra innings.  In the bottom of the 12th inning, David Ortiz, Big Papi, hit a two run walk off home run to win the game and the Red Sox continued the momentum all the way to winning the following three games to get to the Fall Classic which they swept the Cardinals.

Jerry Trupiano wrote his call from Ortiz’s walk off home run in game four on my baseball I received today.  That was really cool.  Not only that, he put a note in he donated the money I sent to his church and even returned my pen.  Thank you Jerry for the awesome baseball!