{"id":1836,"date":"2018-08-22T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2018-08-22T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:00:00","slug":"the-big-unit-and-a-couple-1st-round-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"The Big Unit and a Couple 1st Round Draft Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a couple packages of baseball goodness.\u00a0 The first package was from Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) where he had a signing with Randy Johnson.\u00a0 I was able to get four items signed by Randy with three being Sports Illustrated magazines and the other being my 300 win baseball.\u00a0 Randy included &#8220;303 Ws&#8221; on my baseball.\u00a0 I now need only three more living 300 game winners to complete it (Maddux, Ryan, and Glavine).\u00a0 The three SI&#8217;s that were signed was 03.31.1997, 11.02.2001, and 12.17.2001 which he completed the issue that was already signed by Curt Schilling.\u00a0 They turned out great!\u00a0 Tom does an amazing job!<\/p>\n<p>The second package I opened was a pair of baseballs my pal Chris L (ChrisL999 on SCN) got at a recent minor league game.\u00a0 The baseballs he got signed for me included Nick Pratto and Daniel Lynch.\u00a0 Lynch included &#8220;2018 34th Pick&#8221; which was interesting.\u00a0 Usually they write 1st round pick or something like that but since it was a sandwhich pick maybe that is why he wrote the pick number.\u00a0 Either way, it is pretty cool.\u00a0 Thanks Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a couple packages of baseball goodness.\u00a0 The first package was from Tom O (orr23mj on SCN) where he had a signing with Randy Johnson.\u00a0 I was able to get four items signed by Randy with three being Sports Illustrated magazines and the other being my 300 win baseball.\u00a0 Randy included &#8220;303 Ws&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=1836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Big Unit and a Couple 1st Round Draft Picks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,13,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-consignment","category-hof","category-private-signing","category-sports-illustrated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}