{"id":3609,"date":"2025-03-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2025-03-30T17:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:40:49","slug":"tony-o-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"Tony O!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend of mine reached out to see if I saw a post on SCN regarding a free Tony Oliva appearance at a local business. I had not so I looked into it. I saw it was coming up and asked my brother if he and his wife wanted to join my wife and I and afterwards we could go visit our parents and take them out to dinner and he was all in. We arrived at The Ballpark around 1pm and there was a very short line. The four of us got through the line within 15 minutes. My wife got a pair of Allen &amp; Ginter cards signed and I got his Hall of Fame induction ticket. My sister-in-law got my Spanish Hall of Fame postcard signed for me and my brother got a ball for himself. Then my wife and sister-in-law sat down and my brother and I went through the line again. This time I got a ticket stub from the game he had his #6 retired and my brother got a card for himself. The staff at The Ballpark was amazingly friendly welcoming us and hoping we enjoyed our time there when we left. It is a place my brother and I spoke of having to get to sometime and take some cuts in the batting cages for fun. Tony is now 86 and it slowing down so it was real nice to get some autographs for the collection. A round up of what I added to my collection today was:<br>2022 Allen &amp; Ginter #165<br>2024 Allen &amp; Ginter #322<br>2022 Hall of Fame Induction Ticket<br>Spanish Hall of Fame postcard<br>07.14.1991 Twins ticket stub with #6 inscribed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:46.95385%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1536 1536w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2048\" data-id=\"3610\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?attachment_id=3610\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOGinters-768x1024.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 2 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:53.04615%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1735 1735w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"2047\" data-id=\"3611\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?attachment_id=3611\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"1735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/TonyOTicket-868x1024.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 2 of 2 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine reached out to see if I saw a post on SCN regarding a free Tony Oliva appearance at a local business. I had not so I looked into it. I saw it was coming up and asked my brother if he and his wife wanted to join my wife and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony O!&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,14,20,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hof","category-ip","category-postcards","category-tickets","category-topps-twins-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}