Today I received a Wander Franco baseball I bought from Dennis Sidler (Sids Graphs). I decided to celebrate the #1 prospect’s promotion to The Show with a baseball signed by him. It has witness authentication via JSA and looks great!
Category: Bought
Yeah, but does he speak Deutsch?
Today I received a JSA witnessed baseball signed by Yankees pitcher Domingo German. Ryan Batkay listed one for sale on Facebook and I jumped on it. I had wanted his autograph for a while. I think he is going to blossom into a superstar if he decides to stay in baseball.
A Couple Young Phenoms
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!
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!