{"id":3656,"date":"2025-06-17T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:08:38","slug":"not-a-basket-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Not A Basket Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Weaver was a pitcher who pitched for a few teams but appeared on the cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine only once.  He posed with four other pitchers as well as George Steinbrenner on the cover of the 03.31.2003 issue.  I had it signed previously by Clemens, Mussina, and Contreras so it was a no brainer to send it in to have Weaver sign it.  Nick C (ncc500 on SCN) was having a private signing with him so I sent it to him and today received it back signed beautifully!  Now I just need Andy Pettitte and it will be as complete as it can be.<br>Also received today was my Kent Hrbek ticket stub from when the team retired his #14.  I asked for &#8220;Retired #14&#8221; but he only signed his name.  Oh well.  Not surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Weaver was a pitcher who pitched for a few teams but appeared on the cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine only once. He posed with four other pitchers as well as George Steinbrenner on the cover of the 03.31.2003 issue. I had it signed previously by Clemens, Mussina, and Contreras so it was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not A Basket Weaver&#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":[21,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-signing","category-sports-illustrated","category-tickets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}