Alex's Autographs

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My In-Person Autograph Experiences

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May 25, 2009-Durham Bulls vs. Rochester Red Wings

Didn't have much for the Bulls (or the Red Wings for that matter)

Bulls:

Justin Ruggiano, 1/2
Julio DePaula, 2/2
Charlie Montoyo, 1/1

Red Wings:

Brian Duensing, 1/1
Philip Humber, 1/6 - signed the worst card I had of him (worst condition that is)
Matt Macri, 3/3
Paul Molitor, 2/2

April 25, 2009-Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees vs. Rochester Red Wings

Today was team signing day for the Red Wings. They forced all their players out onto the field to sign for us even though they battled through a 13 inning game (which they lost to the SWB Yankees, 17-14).

And the best part was - I had no cards of these guys. Jeez, they're all new to the Red Wings it seems...I remember for for a while it seemed like the same core group of guys kept on coming back year after year. Not so much these days.

I still came away with some stuff though:

Red Wings:

Tim Lahey, 1/1
Matt Macri, 1/1
Kevin Mulvey, 4/4
Tommy Watkins, 1/1

And a whole bunch of autograph sheets.

Autograph sheet 1
Autograph sheet 2
Autograph sheet 3
Autograph sheet 4
Autograph sheet 5
Autograph sheet 6
Autograph sheet 7
Autograph sheet 8
Autograph sheet 9

Yankees:

Shelley Duncan, 1/1
Phil Hughes, 2/4
John Rodriguez, 1/1

Today was okay card wise, I always know games are coming up but I never actually remember to prepare ahead of time and buy cards, and that always comes back to haunt me. I mean autograph sheets are sweet, but how many does one person really need?

July 28, 2008-Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees vs. Rochester Red Wings

Scranton/Wilkes Barre was in town today. I missed the pregame graphing because I spent 1 1/2 hours waiting for Ron Guidry, who I got on a card.

I got these guys postgame:

Howie Clark 1/1
Alejandro Machado 1/1 (autograph sheet)
Matt Macri 2/2 (1 card, 1 autograph sheet)
Darnell McDonald 1/1
Kevin Mulvey 1/1
Trevor Plouffe 1/1 (autograph sheet)
J ason Pridie 2/2 (1 card, 1 autograph sheet)
Tommy Watkins 1/1

All of the cards were team set cards, except for the Mulvey. $10 for a team set...outrageous.

July 23, 2008-Toledo MudHens vs. Rochester Red Wings

The Red Wings played the Toledo Mud Hens today. This is how I did:

Red Wings:

Ricky Barrett 4/4
Julio DePaula 2/3
Danny Graves 3/3
Tim Lahey 3/3
Matt Macri 2/2
Kevin Mulvey 1/1
Trevor Plouffe 3/3
Sergio Santos 4/4

Mud Hens:

Larry Parrish 1/1
Timo Perez 4/7
Also an unknown guy - he signed one of the Red Wings autograph sheets for me.

Bill "Spaceman" Lee was also doing a signing tonight, and I got him on a card, two autograph sheets, and one of the $10 photos they had available for sale.

July 5, 2008-Buffalo Bisons vs. Rochester Red Wings

Red Wings played Buffalo today. Wings won 2-0, Liriano pitched a gem.

Here's who I got:

Howie Clark, 3/3
Casey Daigle, 3/3, Jennie Finch got more autograph requests than he did it seemed, that made me chuckle
Garrett Jones, 3/3
Ryan Jorgensen, 1/3, smeared (oh well)
Francisco Liriano, 1/1
Alejandro Machado, 3/3
Darnell McDonald, 3/3
Jason Pridie, 3/3
Tommy Watkins, 3/3

Bisons:

Tony Graffanino, 1/1

I brought two Sharpies, and gave my good one away to a kid who needed one on accident, so I had to use a nearly dry one to get these guys. Oh well, what can you do, it was a good night overall.

June 14, 2008-Louisville Bats vs. Rochester Red Wings

I got Denard Span 2/2 on cards, Alejandro Machado 1/1 on a Red Wings signing sheet and Garrett Jones 3/3 on pocket schedules.

Then I got a few guys on baseballs:

Trevor Plouffe
Ryan Jorgensen
Julio DePaula
Danny Graves
Bobby Korecky

I also got a ball signed by a bunch of guys:

Side 1
Side 2
Side 3
Side 4

June 10, 2008-Louisville Bats vs. Rochester Red Wings

I went to my first game of the year tonight, Durham Bulls v. Red Wings. Great game, Francisco Liriano pitched a gem, Wings routed the Bulls.

Aside from that, things didn't go too well. Seeing as this was the first game I've gone to this year, I realized I didn't recognize...well...anybody. For the most part, the players on the Wings were new guys.

I got Darnell McDonald on a ball, sweetspot (w00t) to commemorate the fact that I actually recognized him.

I also got Francisco Liriano 1/1 and Dan Johnson 1/1.

Failure is the word of the day for Alex. Epic failure.

September 2, 2007-Buffalo Bisons vs. Rochester Red Wings

One heck of a game, Brian Bass pitched a complete game shutout.

This is who signed for me...

Rochester Red Wings:

Doug Deeds-1/1
Dave Gassner-2/2
Matt LeCroy-1/1
Darnell McDonald-1/1
Jason Miller-1/1
Jose Morales-1/1
Trent Oeltjen -1/1
Matt Tolbert-2/2 before the game, 1/1 after the game
Glenn Williams-1/1
Jerome Williams-2/2

Buffalo Bisons:

Shin-Soo Choo-1/1

August 10, 2007-Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees vs. Rochester Red Wings

My first IP graphin' since June.

The Red Wings were playing the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees.

Here's how I did...

Brad Baker-1/1.

Darnell McDonald-1/1.

Jason Miller-1/1. You know something? Bobby Korecky and Miller look alike.

Denard Span-1/1.
Glenn Williams-2/2.
Jerome Williams-1/1.

I didn't get any of the Yankees to sign.

It was a good game. Gassner got into some early trouble but the Wings ended up winning it in the end.

June 20, 2007-Columbus Clippers vs. Rochester Red Wings

Red Wings:

Garrett Jones-signed a pocket schedule and blank IC.
Nick Blackburn-signed a pocket schedule.
Matt LeCroy-signed a blank IC and an autograph sheet.
Tommy Watkins-signed a magnet schedule and blank IC.
Alexi Casilla-signed a blank IC.
Glenn Williams-signed a blank IC.
Jeremy Cummings-signed a blank IC.

Clippers:

Bernie Castro-signed a 2003 Bowman card.
Jason Bergmann-signed a 2006 Topps card and a blank IC.
Larry Broadway-signed a 2003 SAL Top Prospect card and a blank IC.
Tim Redding-signed a blank IC.
Chris Booker-signed a blank IC.
Emiliano Fruto-signed a blank IC.

It was a good game too. The Red Wings won 2-1. Gassner pitched 8 strong innings.

May 29, 2007-Richmond Braves vs. Rochester Red Wings

I went to see the Richmond Braves play the Red Wings yesterday. I am uber low on cards of the guys, so I'm scrounging to find stuff to be signed. I brought my 2005 Red Wings year book (which is in pretty bad shape, but I thought I'd bring it anyway), blank ICs, 2006 pocket schedules, 2007 pocket schedules and 2006 autograph sheets. When I say I don't have a lot of cards for Red Wings players, I mean it - I had a total of 4, three of Ricky Barrett and 1 of Brian Bass.

Anyway, here's how I did.

In my Red Wings yearbook, I got David Gassner to signed two of his pictures in it (1, 2). He also signed a 2007 pocket schedule and a card (which some guy gave me, it was pretty cool of him). The pocket schedule doesn't even have Gassner's picture on it - the three players on it are Matt Garza, Josh Rabe and Garrett Jones. But hey, it's still cool.

Speaking of 2007 pocket schedules, Josh Rabe signed one for me.

Ricky Barrett signed three of my remaining four Red Wings cards, so now I have one left.

Tommy Watkins signed another magnet schedule for me.

Kevin Slowey and Jose Morales signed an autograph sheet for me. I meant to pull out a clean sheet for Slowey, but I pulled out the one with Morales' signiture on it so I had him sign that one.

From the Richmond Braves, I got Doug Clark to sign a card and Bill McCarthy to sign a blank IC. I tried getting Graham Koonce to sign a blank IC, but he said he doesn't and told me how there are dishonest people out there et cetera et cetera. He asked me if I had anything else, so I just gave him a Red Wings autograph sheet and he signed it.

It was a good game too. The Wings game from behind to win it, with a Doug Deeds homer tying the game.

April 22, 2007-Syracuse Chiefs vs. Rochester Red Wings

Great game today. This is what I got IP:

Garrett Jones signed 2/2 pocket schedules for me. Manager Stan Cliburn, Tristan Crawford, Julio DePaula, GM Dan Mason, Denard Span and Matt Tolbert signed pocket schedules too. Doug Deeds, Matt Moses, Matt LeCroy and Jason Miller all signed team autograph sheets for me.

Scott Baker, coach Stew Cliburn (1/1), David Gassner (5/5), coach Rich Miller (1/1), Kevin Slowey (2/2) and Glenn Williams (2/2) of the Red Wings all signed cards for me. Former Red Wings and current Chief Beau Kemp signed a couple cards for me too. Gassner also signed an autograph sheet, Slowey personalized.

Trent Oeltjen signed my ticket stub and Matt Garza and Tommy Watkins signed my magnet schedule.

September 3, 2006: Scranton-Wilkes/Barre Red Barons vs. Rochester Red Wings

What a game! I witnessed my first ever no-hitter. Jeremy Cummings of the Red Barons no-hit the Wings. He was only 4 walks and 1 hit batter away from a perfect game!

I also did pretty well IP:

Red Wings:

Ricky Barrett-signed 3/4.
David Gassner-signed 2/4.
Garrett Jones-signed 1/1. I didn't have a card, so I had him sign one of my binder pages.
Bobby Korecky/Tommy Watkins-1/1, 1/1. They both signed this for me.
Luis Maza-signed 1/1. He ignored me before the game but I got him afterwards.
Quinton McCracken-signed 1/3. He didn't seemed too pleased to be signing.
Josh Rabe-signed 1/1. As usual, he was cool about it.
Kevin West/Glen Perkins-1/1, 1/1. They both signed this card for me.
Glenn Williams-signed 2/2.

Finally, someone else got this for me-a poster with a bunch o' signatures.

Red Barons:

Gavin Floyd-signed 2/2.
Jeremy Cummings-signed 8/8. He was really cool about it.

June 1, 2006: Columbus Clippers vs. Rochester Red Wings

Better day today than my last outing. Goose Gossage was a special guest at the game-he signed a card for me.

Jason Bartlett and Luis Maza of the Red Wings both signed team cards for me.

Pat Neshek of the Wings signed a pocket schedule and team autograph sheet for me. Garrett Jones, Kevin West, Jason Tyner and Kyle Lohse of the Wings also signed autograph sheets, while Mitch Jones of the Clippers signed an autograph sheet as well.

Finally, I started a team ball-so far, I have Chris Heintz, Jason Tyner, Beau Kemp, Gilbert Velasquez and Glenn Williams on it.

Overall, a good day for me.