07/31/07
Went to the Yankess vs Whits Sox game. Was hoping to see A Rod hit number 500.Unfortunately that didn't happen, but I did see the Yankees tie a record from 1939 in the form of 8 home runs in a game. Was able to get Kyle Farnsworth during warm ups.
07/05/07
Went to the Yankees vs Twins game. Was able to get Torii Hunter to sign 2 cards. Joe nathan to sign 3 cards and Boof Bonser to sign 2 cards
06/29/07
Went to the Yankees vs A's game. Was able to get Huston Street to sign 2 cards for me.
05/21/07
I went to the Philles Phestival
with my family today. For those who have never attended it is a must. It is a charity event for ALS. The Phillies have most of their players their signing autographs or in photo booths. I was able to obtain autographs from Brett Myers, Adam Eaton,Jon Lieber,Aaron Rowand,Rod Barajas,Jimmy Rollins,Ryan Madson,Geoff Geary,Antonio Alfonseca, as well as autographed baseballs by Shane Victorino and Harry Kalas. I purchased two grab bags for my boys and my youngest pulled a Ryan Howard autographed baseball hat.
06/19/06 Went to The Yankees @ Nationals game.During Batting practice Joe Torre signed a ball on the sweetspot for me. Here is a picture of him signing. After batting practice finished my younger son got the thrill of a lifetime. As the players were heading into the dugout Kelly Stinnett walked over to my little guy and gave him his bat. It was the highlight of his trip. 05/12/06- Went to see the Oakland A's @ Yanees game. Was able to get Dan Haren,Rich Harden and Justin Duchscherer to sign cards for me. 04/23/06-Went to a signing today. Was able to obtain Chuck Knoblauch on my Yankee team bat. I am now down to Scott Brosius and Derek Jeter to complete the project. I was also able to get Davey Johnson for my 2000 Greats of the Game set. 04/22/06-Went to the Orioles @ Yankees game tonight. Was able to obtain Rodrigo Lopez, Bruce Chen and Daniel Cabrera. As usual no Yankee signed. 01/29/06- Went to a signing this weekend with my sons. Was finally able to obtain Andy Pettitte . I have been trying to get Pettitte on my 99 team signed bat for the longest. I am now only missing Knoblauch,Jeter and Brosius to complete the bat. Also signing were Jimmy Key andTino Martinez. 08/06/05- Just returned from my roadtrip. Took the family to PNC Park and Jacobs Field. If you have the opportunity you must see both of these stadiums. On August 2 we went to see the Pirates face the Padres. It was also the day that the all star symbol was being unveiled. My son and I were able to obtain Jason Bay,Brian Giles,Trevor Hoffman,Eric Young,Ian Snell,Gabe White, Zach Duke and Chris Duffy. In Jacobs field I was unfortunately shut out as the Yankees did not sign 1 autograph. 06/24/05- Went to the Phillies- Red Sox game and was able to get Manny Ramirez, Bill Mueller and Bronson Arroyo. 05/07/05-Went to a Graig Nettles in person signing. Graig was one of my all time favorites as a kid. Got him to sign my 8x10 photoand Sports Illustrated 04/28/05- Went to my first Yankee game of the season. The only person who signed inside the stadium was Jarrod Washburn 08/16/04- Today I went to the Phillies Phestival. I had purchased 3 adult tickets. Each ticket entitled you to one randomly selected autograph table and 1 table of your choice while ticket supplies lasted. Jim Thome, Pat Burrell and Billy Wagner were not signing ,but did have photo booths. I was told that Thome and Burrell sold their booths out. I was able to land tickets for booths for Bobby Abrea and Tomas Perez. When I got to the window there were only three tickets left. I then raced to the other side and received the last ticket for Kevin Millwood.Whew, was this my lucky day or what. So all in all I was able to get the following players on cards:
Bobby Abreau-2
None of this would have been possible without the help of my son, who would do one table while I did another. I highly recomend this event to autograph collectors and especially set collectors.
07/23/04-I went to Citzens Bank Park to see the Phillies play the Cubs. I decided to try and work the visitors side, and boy am I glad I did. I was able to get
Tomas Perez-2
Kevin Millwood-1
Todd Jones-1
Jason Michaels-1
Todd Pratt-1
Placido Polanco-1
Doug Glanville-1
Amaury Telemaco-1
Felix Rodriguez-1
Todd Wellemeyer,
Corey Patterson,
Carlos Zambrano,
LaTroy Hawkins,
and Mike Remlinger.
I also observed Billy Wagner signing on the first base side. If you haven't ben to this stadium yet, put it on your must do list.
07/17/04-Went to a local card show today. They had Joe Pepitone signing free autographs.
04/09/04- Went to the Yankee-White Sox game at the stadium today. Was able to get Esteban Loiaza to sign to cards for me.
