Category: Baseballs

Not Petty In The Least

Today I received a couple items that made me smile. The first was a baseball I bought from Doug Tracy from Authentic Autographs of Southwest Florida that was signed by Chase Petty. Chase included “2021 1st Rd Pick” on it too!
The other item was something I have been trying to track down for a while. Fred Manrique played a short time for the Twins. I had a single hole in my 1990 living player needs and with the 66T card showing up today, I am down to needing just Kirby Puckett to complete the Twins team set. PastPros met up with Manrique and got him to sign some cards and listed them for sale on their website. I was pretty excited when I saw this one listed for sale!

Oh Balls!

Wow! What a box of baseballs I received from my pal Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN)! Chris is a guy who loves chasing autographs more than collecting them so he and I are a great fit. I put full trust in Chris to figure which prospects and players are “worth” an official baseball (these are not cheap!). Today’s box included the following baseballs signed on the sweetspots in blue ink… just how I like them:
Anthony Volpe (Yankees top prospect)
Yandy Diaz
Josh Smith (another Yankees top prospect)
Sandy Alcantara
Brett Baty
Justin Turner
Trevor Rogers
This was a fun box to open and add these items to the collection!

How The West Was Won

While on vacation, I saw Rocco Furio post on Facebook that he had gotten a couple baseballs signed by umpire Joe West and they were available. While at a rest stop somewhere in Montana I sent him a message that I was interested in one. Joe is notorious for signing in black ink and these were in blue and looked great. I made an offer and we worked out a deal. It arrived today and I could not be more pleased. Whether you like Joe or hate Joe, he is going to end up in the Hall of Fame someday and his autographs are tough to acquire. I am excited to have this one in my collection.