Wednesday, November 2, 2011

On the signing front-

Time to catch up some more from the past seasons signing front after a good day yesterday (Editor's Note-I started this on Tuesday) that featured five autographs in the mailbox that included a certain Punky QB from Chicago and the Phillip Rivers fumble that allowed Kansas City to pull off the overtime upset-which enabled me to win my football pool for the second week in a row....

We start with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans,who had some of the best signers all season.
Robbie Ross has been so nice over the last two years that he has made a fan of out of me.
Other prospects from the Rangers of note included Kasey Kiker,Chris McGuiness and Leury Garcia.

The Salem Red Sox were a better signing team than the usual Sawx team with Anthony Ranaudo,Drake Britton and Bryce Brentz leading the way.
Quick Brentz story-Bryce had missed the last series in Frederick due to injury and was hammered as a result.
After signing tons of cards for most collectors (I even had a larger amount than usual) Brentz groused in a good natured way about signing so many and about imposing a limit.
The next night,Corey went and finished up with his family and talked to Brentz and reports that he was great and signed everything.
First rounder Kolbrin Vitek also was a nice addition...

Time for some thank yous for their help around this time.

Tim Jarman was a huge help for me with the Indianapolis Indians and Columbus Clippers down in his home base of Norfolk.
Indians additions included Alex Presley,Brad Lincoln and Rudy Owens as well as Andy Marte on a Columbus card,while the Clippers pickups included Scott Barnes and Zack McAllister.
Tim also was able to add Reds catching prospect Devon Mesoraco when the Louisville team hit Norfolk.

Tom O'brien continued his help with Indy ball with multiple additions of former Blue Jay and Indian Willie Upshaw and former Pirate T.J.Beam.
Tom also continued to add Bowie cards with their team set and various other BaySox,but his big help was with the majors as Tom was able get me some Pirate cards in their visit to D.C that included Andrew McCutchen on his Indianapolis card and the best of all was former Pirate Jason Bay,who signed his Bowman Heritage numbered refractor that I pulled from a pack!

Thanks to both Tim and Tom for their help!

Only one mail signing around this time as former Pirate and Cardinal John Tudor sent back a mail from the winter.

Still many OSF posts as the off season moves on as this moved the pile only slightly,so next time will feature the stuff that Corey and I were able to get signed on this past season's trip in Knoxville,Asheville and Salem!

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