I connected with Mike E a few years ago. Mike lives in Iowa and hooks me up with St Paul Saints players when they are in town as well as Cedar Rapids Twins minor league players. Today’s package arrived with three baseballs and a card.
The items included:
Charlie Barnes- 2022 Topps #641
Rainiel Rodriguez- OMLB
Eduardo Tait- OMLB
Dasan Hill- OMLB
And, as luck would have it, I just received a message that he got four things signed for me from the St Paul Saints! Can’t wait to receive those! Thanks Mike!
Category: Consignment
Oh Balls!
Today I received the first of probably three dozen baseballs that my buddy in the Washington, DC area will get signed for me over the season. It was a wide variety including team executives as well as rookies and current MLB stars. My buddy Chris L (CHRISL99 on SCN) has taken great care of me and my autograph wants for a handful of years now. Last summer I was able to meet up with him and his wife and we all attended a Nationals game together. That was fun! Chris also got me a few Twins cards signed when they were in DC. The total package included:
Pablo Lopez: 2025 Topps #662, 2025 Topps Heritage #131, 07.05.2023 Topps Now #530, 08.23.2024 Topps Now #337
Simeon Woods Richardson: 2026 Topps Heritage #200
Ty France: 05.23.2025 Topps Now #205
Baseballs:
Justin Campbell
Dauri Fernandez
Emerson Hancock
Josh Hartle
William Kempner
Bryce Miller
Sung-Mun Song
Craig Stammen
Paul Toboni
Joey Weimer
Brandon Woodruff
Cole Young
Another fantastic package from Chris! Thanks pal!
Spring Time in AZ
Today’s mail brought in my final package from Spring Training. This one from AZ. Chris S (CSmith21 on SCN) posted he would work on autographs for people in AZ so I tried him out. I am not disappointed! Chris hooked me up with the following:
Wyatt Langford MLB Debut ticket
Josh Jung MLB Debut ticket
Jack Leiter MLB Debut ticket
Travis D’Arnaud Debut ticket with “Debut”
Pierson Ohl Debut ticket with “MLB Debut”
Tyler Mahle 2023 Topps Heritage #449
Harrison Bader 2025 Topps Heritage #707
Lamonte Wade Jr 2020 Topps #495
Willi Castro 2024 Topps Heritage #608 & 2025 Topps Heritage #73
Brent Rooker 2021 Topps #480
I cannot wait to have Chris chase more autographs for me next spring!!!
Another Florida Spring Package!
I connected with Matt H (mattyice on SCN) a handful of years ago on SportsCollectors.net. Matt lives in Fort Myers and gets to a lot of Red Sox and Twins games during the spring and spends a lot of time chasing autographs for me. Today I received the package of his efforts this spring! Inside was:
Royce Lewis – 2024 Topps Heritage #577, 2025 Topps Heritage #138, 2025 Allen & Ginter #221
Brooks Lee – 08.17.2025 Topps Now #568
Ryan Jeffers – 2024 Topps Heritage #635, 2025 Topps Heritage #424, 07.28.2021 Topps Now #566, 07.23.2023 Topps Now #609
Gio Urshela – 2022 Topps Heritage #635
Michael Taylor – 2023 Topps #374
Austin Martin – 2025 Topps #595, 04.09.2024 Topps Now #53
Taylor Rogers – 2020 Topps #342, 2020 Topps Heritage #25, 2021 Topps Heritage #597
Luke Keaschall – 2025 Topps #US342, 2025 Allen & Ginter #223, 08.05.2025 Topps Now #518, 08.10.2025 Topps Now #543, 2025 Topps Now Rookie Cup #RC-3
These are all awesome additions to my collection and I really appreciate Matt’s help over the years. I hope to get to Florida for some spring training games and chase autographs with Matt in spring 2027 as long as there isn’t a lockout.