Wow! If you have read my postings over the last few years, you have seen Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN) pop up often. Chris gets autographs for me (and himself and others) as a fun hobby. Chris is great at picking out the next crop of superstars and he gets them to sign baseballs for me. Today I received a package of those baseballs that included:
Bligh Madris
Carson Williams
Cesar Prieto
Kyle Harrison
Elijah Greene w/”2022 1st Rounder”
Blaze Jordan
and current MLB’er Jack Suwinski
I love getting baseballs from rookies with big futures and following them in their journey to the Majors.
Category: Baseballs
Breaking Barriers
Today’s addition to the collection is a pretty special one. On 04.08.2022, Rachael Balkovec made history by becoming the first female manager in professional baseball when she led the Tampa Bay Tarpons in their season opener. Creative Sports Entertainment had a signing scheduled with her earlier this month and I had sent in a pair of items via Matthew Eric on Facebook. The items I received today were signed PERFECTLY and the organization of CSE was impressive. I received a baseball signed on the sweetspot with “1st Female Manager” as well as a ticket from the Tarpons @ Flying Tigers game signed in beautiful silver paint pen with “1st Female Manager”. I got JSA witness on both items. They look perfect! I am very pleased with these items.
Blass-toff!
About a month ago, I received a Steve Blass Story Ball on Roberto Clemente’s 3000th hit but he forgot to sign it. I mailed it back with a nice thank you note and another donation and received it back signed today. It is a cool baseball about a memorable moment of one of baseball’s greats!
Go West Young Man
Like him or hate him, Joe West will be a Hall of Famer some day. What he did for baseball is legendary. Todd S (toddschafer on SCN) and his company Under The Radar Sports Promotions had a signing with West and today I received the items I sent in for it. I received a pair of baseballs, one with just Joe’s name on it and the other with his name and “5460 MLB Games Umpired”, and a ticket from August 15th, 2018. The ticket is from the game when Joe umpired his 5,164th MLB game when he passed the previous second place all time leader for games umpired (Bruce Froemming). This game was at Target Field. I had asked for an inscription on it but it was missed. I will resend it back to have Joe add the inscription.