I recently saw a post in the Private Signing group on Facebook for a baseball signed by Ronald Acuna Jr and and another signed by Fernando Tatis Jr. Bleacher Sports was selling the pair slightly discounted. I had a real nice Acuna already but have wanted a Tatis for a while. These baseballs were JSA witnessed/authenticated and I was more than excited to add them to my collection. I received them today and they are awesome! This might go down in a few years as one of my best purchases outside of Mike Trout when he was a rookie!
Category: Bought
Mauer Power!
Today I picked up something I have wanted to add to my collection for a long, long time. I have a Kirby Puckett game used bat that I got signed at Twinsfest years ago. I always wanted a Joe Mauer game bat to go along with it and today I got one. My pal Ben W was downsizing his collection and bought this bat from the Twins Pro Shop back in October, 2006 and got it signed at Twinsfest one year. He reached out to me and asked if I would be interested in buying a few items of his and this was one of them. He offered me a fair price and I jumped at the chance. I picked it up after the Twins game (they won!) and chatted with Ben for a couple minutes. He is really happy it is going to someone who will appreciate it. I will have to try to look at some late season games online and see if I can photomatch the bat to a game! THAT would be cool!
Oh Balls!
Today was a fun day to add a couple cool baseballs to the collection. I noticed on Facebook that Chris Hoag was selling a bunch of game used items from a person who consigned them to him to sell. I was watching some of these items that I thought were cool but was not willing to pay the price they were listed at. On Thursday, the Twins Home Opener Day, Chris ran a sale. It brought the prices down to a little more palatable price. I offered a price for a pair of baseballs and his consignor accepted my offer. I met Chris to pick up the baseballs today since he lived in the city right next to mine. The baseballs I picked up are:
- 2005 Opening Day Game Used Baseball signed by Joe Mauer with “04/08/05 Game Used”
- Game Used baseball from 06.14.2015 which was the game Byron Buxton made his Major League Debut.
With the year Byron has gotten off to I am excited to have this baseball. I have a pair of signed and unsigned tickets from this game in Texas so this is a cool addition.
Layin’ Down The Law
Today I received a card that I purchased from Christopher W (cjw916 on SCN). Christopher told me he and his dad would go to the Metrodome and wait for autographs after the games and one time he got Matt Lawton to sign his 2000 Topps 262 card. What is cool about this card is that it is the last Matt Lawton Topps Twin card I needed to have all of Matt’s cards PLUS it was the last card I needed to complete the 2000 Topps Twins team set!