As most of you know, I really only collect MLB autographs. \u00a0A few years ago I had the opportunity to add a couple 1980 US Olympic hockey players to a couple Sports Illustrated magazines so I guess I started that project. \u00a0Today George Johnson from SportsNewsShows.com had most of the Miracle on Ice team at a local show so I decided to get the ones I needed on just one of my SI’s as I was not about to pay $29 per for a second SI.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the day I added the following players to my team celebration SI:
\nJack O’Callahan
\nSteve Janaszak
\nKen Morrow
\nBob Suter
\nRob McClanahan
\nEric Strobel
\nMark Wells
\nI had a ticket for Dave Silk but he arrived early and I was going by the time. \u00a0When his time was up to sign, he was already gone and I missed him. \u00a0I did get a refund but I was still disappointed. \u00a0One of the issues I have about this show is the poor communication. \u00a0You have one guy yelling what ticket numbers and person was ready and everyone all standing around the entry way. \u00a0If you are off to the side, you cannot hear anything (props to the guy for not losing his mind though with everyone asking every 30 seconds “Is my number ready?”). \u00a0I doubt Silk will ever be back in the Twin Cities so I suppose I will never have him on it. \u00a0Oh well.<\/p>\n
In between all the hockey players I added the following autographs to my collection… all on Sports Illustrated magazines:
\nLou Brock on the 10.16.1967 issue and adding him to my 10.17.1968 issue. \u00a0He commented on the 1967 issue that it was “… from the 1967 World Series and I was trying to trick them I was going to steal. \u00a0And it worked!”.
\nOzzie Smith on my 9.28.1987 issue. \u00a0Ozzie is as class as they come.
\nRoberto Alomar on my 10.14.1996 issue and adding him to my 10.26.1992 issue already signed by John Smoltz. \u00a0Roberto commented that “I cannot believe he got me out!” \u00a0While getting Alomar to sign, my buddy Joel B came with me because he purchased a “game used” bat from a local dealer but wanted to ask Alomar if it was truly game used. \u00a0He showed it to Alomar and he said he used that brand but not that bat. \u00a0He took a couple swings with it and said the bats he used were not flame tempered as this one was and when he found out it was purchased from Kirby Puckett’s collection he said he would have given Kirby a nicer bat than that one. \u00a0(note: \u00a0Joel brought it back to the person he bought it from and got his money back). \u00a0It was really cool hanging with Joel all day and he rally came down just to hang with me and to find out about the bat. \u00a0Had it been real, he would have gotten it autographed. \u00a0At one point Joel and I went out to my car to get some stuff I bought from Joel a while ago and on the way out, I ran into a loyal blog reader Mike!<\/p>\n
Throughout the day I made a couple purchases. \u00a0I bought a 1987 Twins pocket schedule I did not have and a Puckett home run ticket stub from 1994 I did not have. \u00a0I also picked up a season ticket version from Paul Molitor’s 3000th hit game. \u00a0The biggest purchase though was three full 1961 Peter’s Meats panels I needed. \u00a0I now only need 10 more to complete the 25 card set.<\/p>\n
After missing Dave Silk, I am down to needing four more autographs on the Celebration Sports Illustrated to have the entire team.<\/p>\n
All in all it was a long but fun day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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