Today I received one of my final packages from the regular season. This time from Harry S (harrybear on SCN) which contained three baseballs and a ticket. Over the entire season Harry got me baseballs signed by:
Greg Holland
Yordano Ventura
Salvador Perez
and a ticket from Yordano Ventura’s ML Debut. They all look great except for the Holland which got a little ink smudge while in transit to me. Hopefully over time that will fade and look fine.
Harry even paid an extra nickel as postage went up since I sent it to him. Thanks Harry!
A Couple Nice Items
Today’s mail brought a surprise and a package of some prospects. Back in the beginning of the season, I mailed a baseball card to Paul Molitor at Target Field. Today I received my 2013 Gypsy Queen card signed beautifully in blue!
The other package was probably the last one I will get from my friend Paul C in Florida until next spring. He worked the instructional league games for me and picked up baseballs signed by the following guys:
Austin Meadows w/”1st RD Pick ’13”
Josh Bell w/”Futures Game 2014″
Alen Hansen
Kyle Schwarber
As always the last few years, Paul has done a great job and I cannot wait until next spring!
A Royal Treat!
Today I received a package from Kent B (doggle3 on SCN). Kent has gotten me a ton of autographs over the last few years from spring training and Kansas City. Overall, Kent is one of the best guys I go through for autographs. His care and communication are top notch.
Today’s package contained the following:
2013 Topps Heritage Josh Willingham
2013 Gypsy Queen Josh Willingham
2013 Topps Josh Willingham
2014 Topps Josh Willingham
2 @ Billy Butler Sports Illustrated
Kent single handedly knocked out all my Willingham needs! THANKS Kent!
S’More Balls
Today I received a nice package of baseballs from my guy Paul C who lives in Florida and gets me all the prospects I want. Today’s package contained the following baseballs:
Manuel Margot
Rafael Devers
Lewis Thorpe w/”Go Twins”
Nick Gordon w/”1st Pick 14″
Chance Sisco w/”Go Orioles”
Drew Dosch w/”Go O’s”
Justin O’Conner w/”Futures Game 2014″
As always these are beautiful blue ink sweetspot balls. Paul does a great job! An interesting story about when he got Rafael Devers to sign the ball is that Paul had to tell him how to sign his name. He said he spelled out every letter for him so he could sign. I guess his English is not too good. Both he and Paul did a great job though!