Today I received a package of baseballs from Paul C. Paul gets me a ton of baseballs from Florida of the minor leaguers. Today’s package includes:
Alex Blandino w/”1st Round Draft Pick”
Nick Travieso w/”1st Round Draft Pick”
Nick Howard w/”2014 1st Rd Pick”
Amir Garrett w/”Go Reds!”
Tyler Jay w/”1st Round 2015″
As always, Paul did a great job for me! Thanks Paul!
Category: Baseballs
Great Balls of Fire!
Today I received another package from Paul C in Florida who gets me all the minor leaguers I want. Today’s package had the following seven baseballs:
Rob Kaminsky
Reese McGuire w/”1st Round”
Austin Meadows w/”2013 1st Rd Draft Pick”
Jacoby Jones w/”Go Pirates”
Barrett Barnes w/”first rd draft 2012″
Clint Coulter w/”1st round draft pick 2012″
Victor Roache w/”1st Rd 2012″
All signed exactly the way I like them! Thanks again Paul!
A Four For Two Day
Today I got two packages that had four autographs combined in them. They were both from private signings and turned out awesome.
The first was a package from my friend Robert T in Tulsa, OK who is friends with Charlie O’Brien. A week or so ago I got a book and baseball signed by Charlie and today I received my Sports Illustrated magazine from 05.23.1994. Charlie signed in perfectly with “Catch Ya Later”. It turned out perfect.
The other package had three perfect autographs. Chriss P (bigpog on SCN) lives near Cleveland, OH and got a baseball signed by Yan Gomes and the Indians version of the Sports Illustrated Baseball Preview issue from 03.30.2015 signed by both Corey Kluber and Michael Brantley. They all signed it perfectly!
The communication, care, and customer service of both these guys are top notch!
Jim Dandy!
Today I received a neat baseball I had sent to Jim Marshall. Jim is not someone a typical baseball fan thinks of or even heard of in most cases. I happened to be watching MLB’s 2015 Legends In Scouting where they honored a few baseball scouts. I was so impressed with Mr Marshall’s resume that I knew I had to send him a baseball and ask him to write his “stats” on it. Mr Marshall was introduced as “an original Met. He played for Casey Stengel, worked for PK Wrigley, Managed for Charles O’Finley and was the first Major League player to play in Japan”. That is quite the resume spanning a number of decades! I sent him a baseball requesting all that on a baseball and received it back with:
His name and “2015 Legends In Scouting” on the sweetspot.
“Original Met 1962”
“Played for Casey Stengel”
“1st ML player to Play in Japan Chunichi Dragons 1963”
“Managed for Charlie O’Finley Oakland A’s 1979”
“Managed for P.K. Wrigley Chicago Cubs 1974-1976”
He even wrapped the baseball box up in tissue paper when he sent it back to me and included his business card and even returned my donation. What an awesome baseball! It certainly tells a story of an amazing person and their life devoted to baseball!