Category: Call Ball Collection

About a month ago I received a baseball from Eric Nadel where he wrote his call of Jurickson Profar’s first career walk off home run.  In my note to him, I asked if he would be willing to do a call ball of Nolan Ryan’s 5,000th career strikeout and he said yes.  I immediately mailed a baseball and donation to him and today I received it back signed perfectly!  He wrote his call from 8/22/1989 when Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan struck out Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson for #5,000!  Thank you Eric!

Five days ago I sent a baseball to Eric Nadel and I received it today in a record turnaround.  Not only did I get it to and from Texas, it was signed really, really cool.  You may remember my call ball of Bryce Harper’s first career walk off home run.  On 9/26, Jurickson Profar hit his first career walk off.  I thought Profar’s call would be really cool to go with Harper’s so I sent a ball off to the Ranger’s broadcaster.  He inscribed it with his call.  If that was not cool enough, I asked him about sending another baseball for his call of another memorable baseball event and he said he would sign it for me.  You will have to wait to find out that historic call…

One of my most favorite parts of my baseball collection is my Call Ball Collection.  Today I received a really cool one from Charlie Slowes.  Charlie is a broadcaster for the Washington Nationals and recently called Bryce Harper’s first career walk off home run.  Not only did Charlie sign the baseball really really cool with his call, he also sent a note along hoping the ball was the way I wanted it.  Well Charlie, you hit a home run with it… just like Bryce!  THANKS Charlie!

Ok.  I admit it.  The title for this post is weak but if you bear with me, you will make the connection.  Jerry Trupiano (Piano) is a radio broadcaster (tune in the channel?) for the Boston Red Sox.  He was behind the microphone on 10/17/2004 for 2004 ALCS Game 4 when the Red Sox faced the Yankees.  The Yankees were up three games to none and no team, in any sport, ever came back in a seven game series after being down three games to none… until the 2004 Red Sox.  The champagne was on ice ready to be sprayed by the Yankees with the future Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera on the hill protecting a one run lead in the bottom of the ninth.  In one of the most exciting games in any League Championship Series history, the Red Sox scratched together a run off Mariano to force extra innings.  In the bottom of the 12th inning, David Ortiz, Big Papi, hit a two run walk off home run to win the game and the Red Sox continued the momentum all the way to winning the following three games to get to the Fall Classic which they swept the Cardinals.

Jerry Trupiano wrote his call from Ortiz’s walk off home run in game four on my baseball I received today.  That was really cool.  Not only that, he put a note in he donated the money I sent to his church and even returned my pen.  Thank you Jerry for the awesome baseball!