Today I received a baseball that Paul C got signed for me when there was spring training. Paul has gotten me a bunch of prospect baseballs in the past from the Florida State League as he lives in Ft Myers. This baseball I received was signed by Trevor Larnach and included his “2018 1st Rd” inscription. It looks awesome! Thanks Paul!
Category: Baseballs
Some Twins
Today I received the first package from the few guys I trust who went to spring training. This package came from Fort Myers and had a bunch of Twins in it. Matt H (mattyice on SCN) lives in the Fort so he was able to get to a bunch of early workouts for me. This is my second spring sending him items and I am very pleased with what he got for me. Those items are:
Ryan Jeffers – OMLB
Lewis Thorpe – 1st Win ticket with “First ML W”
Luis Arraez – Triple play ticket from 07.22.2019
Randy Dobnak – Ticket with “1st MLB Save”
Alex Kirilloff – 2019 Bowman Next T15
Jake Cave – 2019 Gypsy Queen 156 & 2019 Topps Now Postseason
Jorge Polanco – 2019 Topps Now 4/5 & 2019 Topps Now 7/7 (said he remembered the play on the 7/7 card)
Marwin Gonzalez – 2019 Topps Heritage 553 & 2019 Topps Now Postseason
Max Kepler – 2019 Topps Now 7/21
Michael Pineda – 2019 Topps Heritage 662
Miguel Sano – 2017 Gypsy Queen 190
Mitch Garver – 2020 Topps 210 & 2020 Topps 18
Royce Lewis – 2019 Bowman Next T9
Matt did a fantastic job on my items! Thanks Matt!
A Little More Pine Tar
Today I received a really cool baseball that was signed by Mike Armstrong. Mike was the winning pitcher in the Pine Tar Game and wrote about what he remembers from the game. Brian S (bds258 on SCN) had a private signing with Mike and I worked out a deal to send a baseball to it. I cannot express enough how happy I am with this baseball and the effort Mike and Brian put in to make it happen. Thanks guys!
A Red Letter Cardinals Day!
Today I received a pair of packages and both are related to St Louis Cardinals!
The first was a pair of baseballs that I had sent to Tom Orr for Ted Simmons to sign. When they announced that Ted Simmons made the Hall of Fame, I realized I did not have any baseballs signed by him. Tom saved the day with a signing and I now have a pair of baseballs with one signed “Hall of Fame 2020” and the other “HOF 2020”. They are both signed beautifully!
The other package was three items that Derrick B (dlbiri1s on SCN) got signed for me at the Cardinals Winter Warm Up. The items I added to the collection include an Alex Reyes ML Debut ticket with “ML Debut”, my 10.10.2016 Sports Illustrated magazine that was already signed by Jake Arrieta is now signed by Dexter Fowler as well, and the last item was a ticket stub from the 1987 World Series Game 5 signed by Danny Cox. Danny included “WP” as he was the winning pitcher in the game. I got the ticket from my buddy Steve C who is a huge Cardinals fan and a great guy.
What a fun Cardinals mail day!