My daily Twins calendar on January 13th talked about how on 05.31.1964 there was a doubleheader between the Giants and Mets that lasted the longest of any doubleheader (by time: 9 hours, 56 minutes). I checked the boxscores to see who played a full game in each of the two games and found that Ed Kranepool of the Mets played both. I sent Ed a baseball and received it back today. He signed it with
Played Every Inning of Doubleheader 5-3-64″ and wrote about how he played 50 innings in 24 hours and wished the game went a little longer so it would have ended the next month! Pretty neat comment about Ed’s 24 hour period!
Altuveeeeeey
Today I received an SI I bought from Eric K (ekendall on SCN) that was signed by Jose Altuve. It is the March 28, 2016 issue and looks great.
The Rocket
Today I received a pair of items I had sent in to Chris D (cpdinc on SCN) for his private signing with Roger Clemens. I sent in my 03.31.2003 Sports Illustrated that was already signed by Mike Mussina and Jose Contreras and Chris got Roger to sign it perfectly. I also sent in my 300 win baseball that already had six signatures on it and Roger signed that perfectly with a “354 W” inscription. It too looks great! Chris did a great job on these items at a very fair price. Thanks Chris!!!
My Second Pitch
A follow up from my last post, Caden had his baseball hitting workout tonight and afterwards Mike Kvasnicka signed the rest of the cards that I did not prep last time. As he was signing the 2010 Pro Debut cards he told us that the picture was from the second pitch he ever saw. The first pitch he saw he hit for a home run. The second was a double off the wall. He then told a couple stories about watching You Tube videos on the long bus rides and going with his dad to batting cages with Hrbek and Brunansky and Puckett when he was a kid. Man, that was fun to talk with Mike. The kids loved their signed cards too. What a fun time.