Today Cami and I headed to the Twins game to spend the afternoon rooting on our favorite team. As we do every Sunday game, we get in line for the kids’ autograph event before the game. While waiting in line, she got TC to sign her baseball. Today’s signers featured Jamey Carroll and Anthony Swarzak. I had a card I wanted signed by Carroll and Cami already had Swarzak on her baseball. I asked her if she would like her baseball signed or my card signed by Jamey Carroll. She said “Since it is Father’s Day, I will get the card signed for you!” So, she got Jamey on a 2013 Topps card for dad. What an awesome girl! Thanks Cami!
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Cami & The Twins!
As I mentioned before in this blog, Sundays are Kids Day at Target Field. Whenever we get a chance to go on a Sunday, Cami and I head to the ballpark. Today was one of those days.
We got to the ballpark about five minutes before the gates opened. Once they opened, she got her Josh Willingham jersey for kids and we headed to the kids’ autograph line. Cami was the fourth kid in line! She added Chris Callabello and Samuel Deduno to her Twins ball. She said Samuel said “You’re welcome” after she thanked him and Chris said “Thank you for saying thank you!”. She thought that was funny.
After the game she had a ton of fun running the bases. That is another fun event for the kids on Sundays.
A Fien Diamond!
Today Cami and I went to the Twins game. She likes to go on Sunday games because they have a kids only autograph session before the game and she has a baseball she gets everyone’s autograph on. We got to the ballpark a little later than normal today because she stayed over at a friend’s house and when we got to the line, it was REALLY long. I asked Cami what she wanted to do and she said to skip it. I told her we could walk down to the right field foul area and see if anyone shows up there and she was all for it. I gave her a pen and her baseball and told her where to stand and watched from about ten rows back. Casey Fien was going down the line signing so she was really excited about that. He signed her baseball and she came running up to me all excited. That was cool. I noticed another Twin signing who was working his way down so I told Cami to go down there. I could not see who it was but a young girl came running up near me with an autograph and I asked her if that was Scott Diamond and it was. Cami already had Diamond on her baseball so I told her to come to me. She asked why and I told her it was Scott Diamond and he was already on her baseball. She said she wanted to thank him for signing her postcard that she mailed to him and he was kind enough to return signed a week or so ago. I told her that would be awesome and to go down and wait. When he got to Cami she thanked him for it and he said he was happy she got it. I thought that was pretty cool and classy of Scott. I realized I had a 2013 Topps Heritage card of him but no marker (Caden used my backpack for a Boy Scout camping trip this weekend and I took all my stuff out so he could use it). I waited a little bit for him to get to me and a young kid standing next to me was kind enough to let me use his Sharpie. I told Scott that this one was for dad and that Cami smiled from ear to ear the night she got the postcard. He smiled.
We headed up to our seats and the first Twin batter, Brian Dozier, hit a foul ball right to me. It went off my bare hand with a loud slap noise and rolled behind us. I reached back and got it! This was my very first foul ball I “earned”! It only took me about 450 or so games!
Cami and I had a GREAT time at the ballpark enjoying great weather (for once) and a great Twins win! Oh, and thanks to the kid who borrowed me his Sharpie!
Two WS MVPs and the Terminator!
Today was a great day! Cami and I left the house around 8am and headed to Bloomington to meet up with Joel B (brad0112 on SCN) and his son Elliott. We then headed to Moundsview Square Mall where Tom Frantzen had Frank Viola, Jeff Reardon and Jack Morris appearing to sign autographs. There was heavy demand for Viola so we made sure we got up to get the tickets when they opened. We bought the tickets then headed to see Ted S. Ted has been pretty gracious with his sked doubles and let me go through all his sked doubles and take what I need. Today I traded his AL doubles that I went through and got a TON for the NL doubles. I will go through those over the next couple weeks. We then headed back and got in line for Viola and Reardon.
As usual, Frankie V was his happy, talkative self. It was really neat to see him. He signed a 1987 World Series ticket with “87 WS MVP”, the checklist card from the 1986 7-Eleven Twins team set and two home plates made out the the old Metrodome roof. He looked at the checklist card and said “That isn’t even me! Well, it has my face but that is my first roommate and best friend today!”. I asked him who it was and he had me guess. I asked for the first name and he said ‘Jack’. I said ‘Jack O’Conner’ and he looked at me with wide eyes and said ‘Yes!’ He said That’s Jack’s windup but my [Frank’s] face!” He signed it and we moved on to Jeff Reardon. Jeff signed a home plate of the Metrodome roof for Cami. Joel then took a photo of Jeff and Cami together. We are going to get that printed out and send it to Jeff to sign it for Cami.
After that we left to eat and when we were done we went back to the show for Jack Morris. Jack finished our two home plates with “91 W.S. MVP”. Both home plates turned out really cool with the two Twins World Series MVPs on them.
We left and headed to Dick Blick in Roseville and found some really cool frames for the home plates. After that we drove to where Joel’s car was parked and dropped him and Elliott off and headed home.
It was a long day but the four of us had a blast. It was cool that Joel and I could do this while our kids got to know each other and hung out. We cannot wait for the next autograph show where we can do this again!