First,a few non-baseball cards from the mail.San Francisco Giants host Amy Gutierrez signed an old Fleer Giants logo card as well as adding a nice picture as well.
I have found those old logo stickers to be quite handy for some situations,even better than blanks at times,although I'll never be able to use them for the Marlins,Rays,Diamondbacks and Rockies.
1972 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist Frank Shorter
Singer Pat Boone
Former Oklahoma Heisman Trophy winner Jason White signed a Sooner card and completed a card of Sooner Heisman winners with Billy Sims and Steve Owens.
Very nice addition!
I had very little for the Winston-Salem Dash as their team set was not released yet.
However,I was able to get Courtney Hawkins on his Bowman top 100 card and his Carolina League top prospect cards.
Two other nice grabs were high picks by the White Sox in the 2012 draft as Chris Beck and Joey DeMichele signed their CL prospect and All-Star cards.
I also added then Frederick Key Nick Delmonico on his CL prospect card,Delmonico was always great in my dealings with him and I'll miss getting more as he was shipped to the Brewers in a trade that saw the Orioles pick up Francisco Rodriguez.
The Pirates low A affiliate cruised into the Hub City (soon to be renamed the Nub City) with the best prospect laden team in the league with the West Virginia Power.
Luis Heredia and Josh Bell each were very nice and signed all as did Barrett Barnes,who I had the most amount of cards for.
The two breakout players of the season for the Pirates each signed cards as Dilson Herrera (since traded to the Mets) signed a blue Bowman refractor and Tyler Glasnow signed his team cards.
Bet on Glasnow being in a bunch of sets over the winter.
Clay Holmes signed a Bowman silver ice as well.
Former Pirate Orlando Merced is the Power's hitting coach and many of us looking forward to adding him to our collections.
Merced was not exactly friendly,but would reluctantly sign a card before the game.
After the game was a different story as one night,he stormed from the clubhouse with a can of beer in one hand and a case of beer in the other and screamed "NO"! when asked to sign a card by another collector.
No,that wasn't me,I figured the beer was a tip off that Ol' Orlando wasn't in the mood to sign.
The biggest issue with the set was its gloss as Brandt just had too much gloss on their cards on their earlier releases.
I attempted to get them signed without "rubbing" them with an eraser,but Josh Bell's first signature "bubbled",so I had to quickly rub the cards down.
Fortunately,Brandt corrected the issue with later team set releases.
The injury plagued Wilmington Blue Rocks were in Frederick for a series against the Keys and as a result were missing many players.
2012 first rounder Kyle Zimmer was there though and signed his team set card along with his Carolina League prospect card.Zimmer's top 100 card arrived the day after the Blue Rocks left though and when they returned,Zimmer had been promoted.
John Lamb continued to be a top signer and Kyle Smith signed two cards before being traded to the Astros in a deadline deal.
The Francisco Lindor show and the Carolina Mudcats traveled through,but only for a short time.
Lindor was going to play in the futures game in New York on a Sunday,so Derreck and I figured that we had one shot at Lindor on the Friday and first game of the series.
That was not a guarantee,but the gamble paid off as Lindor was there for the first game of the series and signed one each,Rachel helped me get an extra one (for a cost) and Lindor left after the game for New York.
He would not return as he was promoted to AA Akron during the weekend.
More on Lindor with the Aeros in a future signing front.
The other two nice additions were finally getting former second rounder Alex Lavisky on five different cards and Tyler Naquin on his team set,CL Prospect and CL All-Star cards.
Thanks to Kendall Morris for helping me with three Gregory Polanco's.
Polanco has signed less since then as you will see in a future signing front!
Kendall also gave me a certified autograph of Cleveland's Carlos Santana,which Kendall reports was the second of two of the same Santana that he pulled from packs!
Pretty long odds betting on that to happen!
Thanks to Jason Christensen for a few minor league Pirates,most notably catcher Jin-De Jhang.
Thanks to Brandon Diehl,who got C.J. Edwards of Hickory after a game when I had to go to work.
Edwards was traded to the Cubs shortly after that in the Matt Garza swap.
And finally,thanks to Bill Cover,who traveled to a Dayton vs Bowling Green game and worked on much of a Bowling Green team set for me as well as some nice prospects.
The biggest addition was Reds fireballer Robert Stephenson,but other Reds included Nick Travieso and Jesse Winker,while the Tampa affiliated Hot Rods added touted hurlers Taylor Guerreri (since injured),Jeff Ames and Blake Snell along with Patrick Leonard,who was obtained in the Wil Myers-James Shields trade..
Thanks to you all!
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