Today I received a story ball from Champ Summers. I asked him to write about what he remembered about the Disco Demolition Night back in 1979. I chose to write to him because Pat Underwood mentioned in his story ball that he remembered “Champ Summers calling time-out to get a helmet to play rt. field”. I thought it would be neat to get Champ’s thoughts. He replied that he got the helmet because people were throwing pieces of records that were sticking into the ground. Pretty neat memory.
Category: Baseballs
A Great Mail Day!
Today was a great mail day. I received items from three places.
The first was from MLAM. They recently sent out a couple emails regarding highly rated prospects that they got to sign baseballs at the All Star Game and two guys listed I wanted. Both are known for being difficult signers and I knew the only way I could get them the way I wanted them, at this time, was to get them via MLAM. Today a pair of blue ink, sweetspot autographed baseballs signed by Francisco Lindor and Manny Machado showed up. The service from MLAM was great!
Also arriving was my tickets and cards from last weekend’s Chili Davis appearance at Fan HQ. I was unable to go because Caden had a baseball tournament so I sent in the last two cards I needed signed by Chili. I am now down to needing just ONE more card signed for the 1991 10 Year Anniversary Card set. That is Mark Guthrie. Hopefully some day. So, I got the 1991 10 Year Anniversary card signed as well as the 1991 Topps Traded cards signed by Chili Davis. Fan HQ also did a private signing with Trevor Plouffe so I sent in a ticket from his ML Debut and his first HR game. I wanted the inscriptions and knew this was the best way to get them. They all turned out awesome.
Finally was something I was waiting on for a while. I traded some cards with Clint R (cardfan4ever on SCN) and sent him an Eric Hosmer ML Debut ticket to get signed. He got it signed and I received it today. Another ticket to the collection!
The Zack Attack!
I recently did a consignment with Neal T (TuckerKCRoyals on SCN) to get a couple baseballs signed by top prospects at the All Star Futures game. Neal came through with Zack Wheeler for me. Zack is the #22 overall MLB prospect and is in the Mets organization. Not only did Neal get it signed the way I wanted but he also got it signed using the ink pen I sent and provided an awesome summary on where and when he got it.
Twins #1 Prospect Miguel Sano
Today I received my end of a 50/50 with Nick C (brewcrewownyou on SCN) which was a blue ink sweetspot ball signed by Miguel Sano. Nick included a ticket from the Snappers game where it was signed as well as a couple photos of him getting Miguel to sign stuff. Sano has a couple different versions of his autograph and both of which you cannot tell what it says. I am excited to add this player to my collection as he is projected to be a top player and is one of the top prospects in baseball.