Category: Cami

Another Nice Mail Day!

Today I received three packages from various people with autographed items in them.  One was a box full of baseballs gotten for me at the Arizona Fall League, one was a World Series ticket, and the other a couple photos I traded for.
The baseballs came from Christian B (hheroes10 on SCN) who has gotten me autographs from Arizona Spring Training and Fall League over the past number of years.  This group contained:
Jesse Winker
Hunter Dozier
Anthony DeSclafani
Eddie Rosario
DJ Peterson
They were all signed perfectly in blue on the sweetspot just how I like ’em!

A couple weeks I saw where Dan C (scfdff on SCN) was going to a signing with Jim Kaat in New York and was offering to take items.  I had a Game 2 of the 1965 World Series ticket I had been wanting to get signed by Jim for a while.  I sent it to Dan asking if he would ask Jim if he would write “Complete Game Winner” on the ticket too.  Dan emailed me right after the signing and said Jim’s agent was saying no inscriptions but he asked and Jim told him it was such a unique item he would inscribe it.  Today I got the ticket and COULD NOT be happier!  It turned out AWESOME!

The other package was a tube with a pair of photos.  Bryan W (bryanwood on SCN) contacted me about an NFL Duke football I posted on SCN a long time ago for trade.  He was going to see someone a couple days later and wanted it for the signing.  Since I bought the ball in hopes of having Brett Favre sign it when he was a Viking and it never happened, it was just gathering dust so I looked over his trade items and picked out a couple cool signed pictures.  The first picture is an 8×10 of the fight between George Brett and Graig Nettles in the 1977 ALCS signed by both of those guys.  I showed it to Caden and we watched the video of it and he wanted that photo so I got that one.  The other one I received is a really cool 11×14 of Phil Niekro on the mound in mid-windup about to throw a knuckleball while playing for the Yankees.  What makes this photo so cool is there are five inscriptions on the photo all signed in perfect silver paint pen.  Cami saw that picture and said she wanted that one.

All in all it was a really nice mail day!

Appreciating the Fans

Today was Kids Fan Appreciation Day at the Twins game.  Since it was a Sunday, Cami went with me.  We had a blast.  It started with the autograph session for kids and she added Doug Bernier to her baseball.  The other person was Logan Darnell but he already signed her ball so she told him and said good luck and he smiled.
While in our seats I saw on Twitter that you could post a picture at the ballgame for a chance to win a signed ball so I took a picture of Cami and posted it.  Later in the game I got a tweet from the Twins saying I won a ball!  I got to the area to pick it up and was offered a bat signed by Pedro Florimon.  Since he was just released, I asked who the balls were of and the girl said Chris Parmelee so Cami wanted that so she added a Parmelee ball to her collection (dad already has two).  We walked around for a little while after that and decided to head to the seats for the last couple innings of the game.  In the top of the 9th inning a foul ball was sent our way.  It hit the first seat about four rows behind us and bounced to the row behind us and then rolled down the row.  I reached back to grab it but was not fast enough.  There was a man two rows behind us who jumped down and got the ball and handed it to Cami.  She was so excited.  She did not put the ball down from the rest of the game all the way until we got home and she put it in a ball cube.  It was really cool.  One of the neatest things was we were looking at the game used balls in the game used area when we were walking around and she asked me to buy a ball.  I told her some other time and she ended up getting one anyways!  The Twins lost today but all in all it was a GREAT time for Cami and I at her final game of the 2014 season!

An Awesome Day!

Today was an awesome day.  It started with Cami and I heading to Ridgedale Mall where Danny Santana and Kennys Vargas were signing autographs at Fan HQ.  I had purchased my tickets a while ago which was great because they sold out.  Fan HQ did a great job because English is not their primary language and inscriptions were offered.  What they did was wrote down the inscription on index cards so you could give them to the player so they knew what to write.  We got to Kennys first.  He is a big strong man!  I handed him a ticket from his ML Debut game and the index card with the inscription and he signed it.  Then it was a baseball card for Cami.  Then it was a baseball and then a final ticket from his first home run game with inscription.  Cami then said “Gracias!” and Kennys looked up and his eyes got real big and went “OOOOooooooOOOOOooooo!” and smiled as he was surprised Cami knew (a little) Spanish.  That was Cami’s most favorite moment of the whole day.  We then went to Danny and got him on a ball and a card for Caden and lastly a ticket from his first home run game with inscription.  Shaun H did a great job running the signing at Fan HQ.  Cami and I walked away with smiles from ear to ear and an awesome memory.

Once we got home and got the mail I found a couple packages of signed stuff.  The first was an envelope I sent in to a Gregory Polonco signing in Pittsburgh through 1st and Goal Sports.  In it was a ticket signed by Polonco with MLB Debut on it.  It looks phenomenal.

The last package I opened was from my friend Paul C in Florida.  He has been working the Instructional Leagues for me down there and mailed the following blue ink sweetspot baseballs from the Rays prospects:
Taylor Guerrieri with “2011 1st Rd”
Andrew Toles
Kean Wong with “Go Rays!!”
Willy Adames with “Go Rays!!”
Casey Gillaspie
Another great batch of baseballs from Paul!  He texted me today and told me he already got me three autographs from my current want list I sent him!

All in all it was an AWESOME day of adding items to the autograph collection!

May I Have a Pino, Please?

Today was, as is every Sunday home game for the Twins, Kids Day.  That means two players will be signing autographs before the game for kids.  That also means if I have tickets to the game, Cami is going with me.  So, we got to Target Field and got in line.  Turns out Cami was the second kid in line.  The players signing were the two starters in yesterday’s double header, Trevor May and Yohan Pino.  Cami was excited when she heard that because she has neither on her baseball.  She does now!  Both signed her baseball real nice and even smiled to Cami after she thanked them.  It was a LONG day at the ballpark and the Twins lost but the day started with a pair of autographs for Cami!