Category: Baseballs

Vacation Mail Day

One part of coming home that was actually fun was seeing all the mail piled up in the house.  My in-laws are awesome and not only watched the crazy dog for us but also got the mail each day and kept watch of things at home.  Going through the mail yielded the following items:

  • Joc Peterson signed baseball I sent in to a private signing with this top prospect via Lojo Sports
  • Bill Mazeroski to complete my 1961 Dell Sports Baseball Magazine.  It has Maz, Whitey Ford, Bobby Richardson and Hal Smith on it and looks awesome.
  • Roger Clemens, Frank Thomas, and Juan Lagares signed baseballs via a promotion Leaf Authentics ran at a nice price.

It was a nice run of mail to go through!

Florida Baseball Autographs

While in Florida, we, as a family, went to three baseball games.  I drove to watch a fourth game when Amy and the kids and my nephew decided to go kayaking.  Over those four games we did not actively pursue autographs but if the opportunity came up, we did go for it.  I have purchased a pack of 25 baseball autograph cards that worked well for players I had no idea of or had nothing for.  I did bring along some Sports Illustrated magazines but they did not get out of my backpack even once.  I did manage to get a baseball signed by one player for me though and a pair of autographed cards for Cami while she got a pair of the cards signed herself.  Most of the time we showed up to the game just as first pitch was about to happen so there was not much of an opportunity for autographs.

We ended up getting the following autograph cards:
Aaron Barrett- 03.11.2015- Nationals
Tyler Moore- 03.11.2015- Nationals
Chris Stewart- 03.13.2015- Pirates
Steve Clevenger- 03.14.2015- Orioles

I got Dylan Bundy on a baseball at the Orioles game.

While we did not get many autographs, we had a great time seeing all the ballparks and watching a lot of baseball in the sun!

A Bill I was Happy To Get

Today’s mail brought a couple signed items I recently purchased.  The first was a Billy Terry signed baseball.  I was watching this baseball for about six months on eBay and did not see a nicer one listed in all that time.  I bought it from Richard Altman and it comes with a full JSA letter.
The other item that showed up was a John Roseboro 1969 Topps card I bought from littball99 on eBay.  This is a replacement for one that I had bought a while ago and did not feel it was legit.  That one ended up in the garbage and this beautiful one makes me feel better.