Some Auto baseballs (blue jays + 1 other)

[PhilM]

Well, I said I would do this awhile ago, so, without much furthur adieu, here it is.
My apologies for the somewhat poor photo quality (light wise) sun was going down and the flash was..flashing out the auto's.

Ball 1: Auto's listed after photo by the #'s.

1. Alex(is) Rios
2. David Bush
3. Bob File (was funny seeing a couple girls go CRAZY for bob file)
4. Ted Lilly! (tucked away down there.

5. Jason Kershner (KERSH! under rated lefty who got lit up in his second suprise start. He pitched well, I said "cool to see you start a couple" I guess he had heardit before as he turned to the guard and said "SEE!" odd.)
6. CatScratchFever Kerry Lightenberg! (PSYCHO CAT EYES!)
7. Josh 'my last name auto'd looks like a Hurricane" Towers
8. Justin 'I'm so covered in tattoos MLB makes me wear long sleves' Miller

9. Reed Johnson
10. Jason Frasor

11. Aqulino Lopez
12. ROY FREAKIN CY YOUNG DOC HALLADAY Got him and Lilly on the last day of the season, my buddy who WAS standing beside me decided to go try and get halladay down where he WAS signing.
I was standing beside like, 5 kids, Halladay came right to where I was, and Lilly, it was AWESOME.

13. Greg Zaun
14. Pat Hentgen (first two auto's on the ball)
15. Adam Peterson (ERA looked a lot like a barametric pressure when he signed this)
16. Unless you are a fan you would never guess this one. He signed it upside down to everyone else, and that auto is something else. Really nice guy, funny guy too. Miguel Batista!

Now, for the record, the ball is some wal mart official league ball and pretty much worth very little,I don't really mind, I get em for the fun and collectability. I might take up that user on beckett's idea, guy who makes the collage cards for the playersto sign, those things are snazzy! cept he does hockey. these would obviously be baseball.

Ball 2.

I caught this ball during batting practice off a certain player, and went on a quest to get that player to sign it.
The quest was realized almost a year later.
Was kinda weird bc my mom got a couple BP balls from players throwing them over (**** women) and they say 'practice' on them, this one does not.

2. I thought the quest would never be realized and gave up and got Kevin Cash to sign it, Cash has since been dealt off the Jays. So much for my wicked cool nickname of K money. ©®™

1!! but then the quest was realized!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Miguel Tejada!
Cool guy, I have never been crushed like I was crushed getting this autograph, and I've been in row 3 of bodies @ metal concerts. Row 3 of bodies being about 1.5 feet of space on the floor. People wanted his auto BAD. i guess myself included.

Lastly the Alumni Weekend ball.
This is a...Official American League ball from some time ago.

2. Mark Eichhorn.
And no, he didn't know my name was Phil, he's just religious...rather not have that on the ball, but, what can you do (nothing against god, just god and sports while they are constantly tried to be put together in sports, do not belong together in sports. God did not help you hit that baseball, he doesn't have it in for the pitcher or the other team, it was your ability, move on, just like I'm about to.)

3. KELLY "CHOP" GRUBER!!
Gruber rules, nuff said.
4. Tony "the man" Fernandez. I've been told about a time when I met Tony as a kid at a bank signing, the jays used to do autograph sessions at CIBC banks, they were a corprate sponsor and as a result did that, I've always liked Tony, in all his stints as a Jay.

5. is Rob Butler! Only Canadian on the 93 World Series team, good #'s too (with a wink and a nudge) in 2 Games, 2 AB's he had one hit to go .500, and he scored a run while he was on the bases. So nice work by Rob. He used to/might still play for the intercounty maple leafs, weird beyond useless trivia, unless you ever meet Rob, then congradulate him on his intercounty titles.

And Finally, my FAVOURITE player through the early to late 90s.

The one, the only, the outspoken on his own hall of fame snub.
JOE LOOK AT ME HITTING A WORLD SERIES HOMERUN CARTER!

My favourite fact.
Joe Carter was the last player to touch (if you count SPANKING IT OVER THE LEFT FIELD SEATS touching) the ball during BOTH Blue Jays World Series wins

Joe's the man.

I'll again apologize for the..lacklusture image quality, but, you get the jist.
Comments always welcome and very much appreciated.

Hope to have another fun filled autograph collecting season down at the ballpark.
GO JAYS!
- Phil

 

[Clemens9]

Very nice auto's! I went to Astros spring training last year and got a bunch of auto's on one of those wal mart balls. I don't really mind either, as I care more about the auto's than the ball. I'll have to get some pictures of it on here when I get a digital camera.

 

[PhilM]

Yup,
They sign alright, and only cost 2$ (cdn) so, that beats the cripe out of 20 for a league ball.

And thank ya

 

[freeagent]

Very nice stuff. Keep up the good work!!

 

[Yanic44]

Wowsers Phil! That's a lot! I was expecting like 4 or 5, not that many. Those are awesome. Especially the Joe Carter, that's a real nice one. Great auto of a great player.

Thanks for sharing!!!

Wes

 

[ssa6]

Nice autos man. I have a horror story about my auto ball and bat. For my B-day in 91 or somewhere around then I got a Dave Winfield autographed Ball and a Joe Carter auto Bat. A beautiful silver auto on a black bat and yes Joe Carter was my favorite too. Well the jays go on a playoff run and I decide my bat is good luck so I bring it up from my bedroom to the couch. Anyways I guess the handeling caused the auto to fade. I was about 12 at the time and I didnt totally ruin the auto I can still see it and make it out but it ****s that it is not as sharp looking as it once was. The ball from Winfield alas had a similar fate. To make a long story short it was used by my bro and dad for catch and it now has grass stains all over it. Grrrr I still bug them about that.


One good thing about the bat though. It was good luck

I still have both and they are cool but I wish they were in better condition.

Thanks for the read

 

[PhilM]

heh,
Wes: a couple
you should seemy curse ball, a story I'll tell in a moment.

that's a funny/sad story man.
Luckily I've never had a run in with a fan used auto ball
That'd be rough.


The other autograph ball I have, I've had since I was in a stroller.
My mom used to take me to get auto's at the aforementioned CIBC bank signings and others.
Well this ball was cursed.
Every single player who signed this ball was traded or not resigned by the jays, they ended up off the team one way or another, dave stieb, jimmy key, tony fernandez, fred mcgriff, jack morris, jesse barfield and many more.
it was kind of just a joke within the family, but, it was something that happened, everytime.
There was one autograph session that Pat Borders was having after one of the world series' and he showed up stupidly late, and there was a big line and the whole nine yards. So, I go up, he signs the ball and I said "Thanks mr. borders, but I have some bad news" he says "Oh yeah, what's that" "I said, well, I think I may have just cursed you to be off the team, see every player who's ever signed this ball has been traded or left the jays" he gave me this look and said 'oh...thanks kid" hahah
Man, I kid you not, that off season, not 6 months later, he got traded.

I laughed, curse ball.
It's full tho, so I don't get it signed anymore.
so we need not worry.
I tell ya tho, he was the only one I told the story to, and as you can tell he didn't seem all that impressed haha
I wasn't the biggest borders fan out there.
so I wasn't really broken up about it. found it **** funny though.

Thanks for the kind words gents.
Always appreciated.

 

[ssa6]

Haha Borders was/is wicked he was my brothers favorite.