February Pick-ups 2012

[rchimes13@yahoo.com]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

Extremely excited about my two wins yesterday on Reds.com auctions, my Yonder Alonso collection is growing quickly...interested in anything and everything Yonder!!!

2009 Yonder Alonso autographed AFL Road Jersey
2009 Yonder Alonso autographed AFL BP Jersey

[shaunharr]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

Mark Hamilton game worn/BP Tulane jersey

[godwulf]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

Back Sunday night from my annual pilgrimage to Yuma, to see some games in the independent Arizona Winter League. Eight games in four days, too much sun, and I did manage, incidentally, to collect a few items for the Minor League wing of the collection.

My Arizona Roadrunners played the Long Beach Armada on Friday, and the Armada’s leadoff hitter, a big kid from Tokyo named Daiki Doi, broke his bat in half in the first inning. The barrel end was taken into the Arizona dugout, and the handle went the other way…so after the game, I got the main part of the bat from the Arizona guys and went over to the Armada dugout to seek reunification.

I got the attention of the Manager - who also happened to be Japanese - and, holding up the bat, just said, “One of your players, Doi, broke this in the first inning.” That’s all I had to say, ‘cause he just nodded and shouted a long string of Japanese to somebody at the other end of the dugout. I peeked in and saw Doi digging through the trash for about a minute before finding the handle; he trotted over and handed it to me, and of course I domo arigato’ed him, and he put a nice signature in Kanji on the bat for me.





As you can see, it’s a Japanese bat. (Does anybody know if the brand name is “Super S” or just “Super”?)

My favorite player on the Roadrunners is Blake Shaffer. Currently leading the league in BA and RBIs, he looks like a certain type of hardnosed ballplayer. Long hair, full beard, jersey usually about half unbuttoned. “Kruk-esque”, one might say…but he slaps the Hell out of the ball, and shows a lot of poise out there. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Blake get a minor league contract at the end of the month.

Anyway, I saw him use the same two-tone D-Bat for three consecutive games, and then, on Sunday, after his first at-bat, he switched to another one. He passed by the stands later in the game, and I asked him whether he’d broken it. He laughed and said, “It’s been broken. I’ve been hitting with a broken bat ‘cause my bat order hasn’t come in.” I asked whether he was going to keep on using it, and he said, “Nah, it’s done.” Of course I asked if I could have it as a souvenir, and he said sure, and after the game he signed it for me, and of course that's the other bat in the picture.

Before my last game on Sunday afternoon, the girl who runs the souvenir stand at the Stadium, who knows me for a collector, tossed a jersey onto the counter when I walked up. “They gave these to me to sell,” she said. It was a Team Canada jersey, and she had six left. (This “Team Canada” is not the national team, of course, but an Arizona Winter League and Arizona Summer League independent team.) Not knowing how much they’d told her to sell them for, I asked what numbers they were, thinking I’d get at least one, and she read the numbers off, and then said, “They’re $10 each.”

[geoff]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

Matt Wieters Orioles 2011 game used helmet.

Baltimore Stallions CFL football game used helmet.

Baltimore Stars USFL football game used helmet.



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Thanks
Geoff

[yankees506]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

2010 cano used berroa model

[yankees506]

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2006 signed cano gamer

[yankees506]

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2006 cano with stieiner cert, first 06 ive seen with a steiner cert

[yankees506]

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2004 gary sheffield game used all star game bat, i love bats that make one say WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

[godwulf]

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2004 gary sheffield game used all star game bat, i love bats that make one say WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

So, who wrote all that on the bat? Surely not Sheffield...?

[yankees506]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

So, who wrote all that on the bat? Surely not Sheffield...?

Hmmmmmmm, why would you assume sheffield did not write the inscriptions? Im confused

[CampWest]

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Hmmmmmmm, why would you assume sheffield did not write the inscriptions? Im confused

Yeah, a couple years ago, there were dozens of bats that Sheff wrote all sorts of things on... I think he wrote it...

[Dach0sen0ne]

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So, who wrote all that on the bat? Surely not Sheffield...?

I'm pretty sure there are pics of Sheffield signing this bat on the COA. Nice pickup Melo!

[spartanservitto]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

Man I should have bought that sheff, I saw it and was in awe. What a great pick up.

-Tony

[yankees506]

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Thanks Rich and Tony! I am amazed by this bat, so glad its in my collection!

[Masimen]

Re: February Pick-ups 2012

2004 gary sheffield game used all star game bat, i love bats that make one say WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Sweet bat! Congrats!