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| 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #281 Luis Alicea 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #306 Pedro Guerrero 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #348 Tim Jones 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #514 Jose Oquendo 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #531 Greg Mathews 1989 Upper Deck Main Set #602 Tom Pagnozzi |
Showing posts with label Jose Oquendo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jose Oquendo. Show all posts
2017-04-03
Zistle Trade #29, Part II
Today's the rest of the Zistle trade I started on Thursday. It's all 1989 Upper Deck, and all Cardinals.
However, we can play the old game of "One of these things is not like the other". The first five all show the Cardinals in BP gear, most likely in spring training. Tom Pagnozzi, on the other hand, is in full game uniform, and almost looks like a painting. I can't really explain it, though. He was on the team in 1987 and 1988, so surely would have been at 1989 Spring Training, since they bring in a whole lot of catchers to work with all the pitchers.
2017-02-10
Christmas Cards, a Few Months Late
I seem to always be trying to catch up, so here's some cards that arrived sometime in December, from ATBATT's 3rd Annual Operation PWE. There's something about an envelope of mostly different players and sets that just brings joy to opening the mail.
I'm bad at staying on top of acquiring the Cardinals inserts when new sets come out. That Mark McGwire is a card I definitely should have already had, but didn't. As always, I'm surprised when I don't already have junk-era cards I receive, because it seems like I have so many cards from those years. But both the Oquendo and Galarraga fill holes in my collection.
I like these UK Minis, and I actually have a couple copies of the Ozzie card now. All the more reason to chase down the Vince Coleman and Willie McGee cards from that set. Then there's Matt Holliday, who just won't seem right in a Yankees uniform this year.
Thanks to Stealing Home for the PWE!
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| 1991 Topps #343 Jose Oquendo 1992 Pinnacle #381 Andres Galarraga 2015 Topps #220 Shelby Miller 2015 Topps #336 Matt Carpenter 2015 Topps - Archetypes #A-11 Mark McGwire 2016 Topps Heritage #89 Trevor Rosenthal |
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| 1988 Topps UK Minis #72 Ozzie Smith 2016 Topps #254 Matt Holliday |
Thanks to Stealing Home for the PWE!
2017-02-08
eBay Wins #240
1989 Bowman is like that kid in middle school that hit a growth spurt and became awkwardly tall. Consequently, they don't quite fit into my normal card boxes, which frustrates me as an organizer. But I still collect them, because they were the first Bowman set after a long hiatus for the brand.
Jerry Reuss had a ridiculously long career, the first three seaosns with St. Louis.
Jamie Quirk played for the Cardinals in just one of his 18 seasons, 1983.
This is apparently the first Joel Youngblood card I've posted. He played for the Cardinals during the first part of the 1977 season, for 25 games, the least of the 5 teams he played for.
Tom Herr is a member of the 1982 World Series team whose Autograph I don't have yet. I really need to track him down at a show some time.
Garry Templeton was a Cardinal for several years before being traded to San Diego for Ozzie Smith. Both were shortstops, and both wore jersey #1 before and after the trade.
As I've mentioned many times before, I'm a semi-distant cousin of Mel Stottlemyre and his two kids, Todd and Mel Jr. I never thought to look for a card featuring all three of them before, so I had no idea this existed, and now it's a pretty cool addition to my collection.
36 of these cards came out of packs I just opened, which means 3 cards have gum stains on the back. I'm never sure what to do with cards like that. I definitely don't want to accidentally send them to anyone in a negotiated trade, where they're expecting a specific card in a decent condition, so I don't want to just throw them into my collection. Yet I have no real way to mark cards in my collection that are less than stellar condition. I'll probably just put them in with the rest of the cards and hope it never comes up.
The packs were part of a lot where they worked out to be a penny per card, but that's if I count the packs as only having 12 cards. In fact, those reprint contest cards were a bonus insert in each pack, and look enough like cards rather than filler to me, so all 61 were a total of 58 cents.
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| 1989 Bowman #13 Jim Traber #23 Wes Gardner #25 Bob Stanley #33 Jim Rice #36 Ellis Burks #57 Jerry Reuss #62 Carlton Fisk #67 Dan Pasqua #86 Brook Jacoby |
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| 1989 Bowman #92 Frank Tanana #95 Steve Searcy #99 Paul Gibson #105 Alan Trammell #113 Jeff Montgomery #120 Kurt Stillwell #138 Joey Meyer #146 Rob Deer #148 Jeff Reardon |
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| 1989 Bowman #173 Jamie Quirk #178 Steve Sax #203 Scott Bankhead #207 Mike Jackson #218 Jeffrey Leonard #219 Jay Buhner #254 Tony Fernandez #265 Paul Assenmacher #276 Dale Murphy |
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| 1989 Bowman #300 Jose Rijo #205 Rob Dibble #315 Joel Youngblood #322 Mike Scott #345 Alfredo Griffin #349 John Shelby #350 Mike Marshall #373 Wally Whitehurst #374 Randy Myers |
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| 1989 Bowman #380 Keith Miller #383 Kevin Elster #386 Mookie Wilson #388 Kevin McReynolds #393 Bruce Ruffin #402 Mike Schmidt #403 Tom Herr #412 Scott Medvin #426 Barry Bonds |
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| 1989 Bowman #429 Todd Worrell #438 Jose Oquendo #446 Eric Show #454 Sandy Alomar, Jr. #455 Garry Templeton #458 Roberto Alomar #459 Carmelo Martinez #463 Don Robinson |
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| 1989 Bowman #482 Checklist 122-242 #483 Checklist 243-363 #484 Checklist 364-484 #261 Mel Stottlemyre Reprints #1 Richie Ashburn Reprints #8 Satchel Paige Reprints #9 Jackie Robinson |
36 of these cards came out of packs I just opened, which means 3 cards have gum stains on the back. I'm never sure what to do with cards like that. I definitely don't want to accidentally send them to anyone in a negotiated trade, where they're expecting a specific card in a decent condition, so I don't want to just throw them into my collection. Yet I have no real way to mark cards in my collection that are less than stellar condition. I'll probably just put them in with the rest of the cards and hope it never comes up.
The packs were part of a lot where they worked out to be a penny per card, but that's if I count the packs as only having 12 cards. In fact, those reprint contest cards were a bonus insert in each pack, and look enough like cards rather than filler to me, so all 61 were a total of 58 cents.
| eBay Bargain Tracker | |
| Total Cards Bought | 4286 |
| Total Spent | $57.85 |
| Per Card | 1.35 cents |
| Change | -0.006 cents |
2016-12-08
Bowl Pick 'Em Contest Winnings, Part XXVI
College football will be here again before we know it IS HERE, so I've got to get my prize from last season's Bowl Pick 'Em contest at Cards on Cards posted! My prize for a second place tie was a very generously sized box of cards, so I felt a bit overwhelmed even sorting through them. I finally sorted them out by player, and, as usual, I'll plan to post them all eventually, but I might quit halfway through, we'll see.
Part I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX
XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV
We're just about into Bowl Season again. Will I get these done anytime soon?
St. Louis was Jamie Moyer's 3rd team, and yet he retired 21 years after he left the Cardinals.
I got a nice handful of Felix Jose and Jose Oquendo cards, among others. Both of them were on the 1992 team which was the first I ever watched. Oquendo had a long coaching career with the Cardinals as well, but has opted to just be a spring training instructor for now. He's no Hall of Famer, but I think the Cardinals should retire #11 for him, for combined playing and coaching contributions to the team.
Part I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX
XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV
We're just about into Bowl Season again. Will I get these done anytime soon?
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| 1986 Topps Traded #82T Jose Oquendo 1990 Sportflics #85 Jose Oquendo 1991 Topps Stadium Club #190 Jose Oquendo 1991 Topps Stadium Club #366 Felix Jose 1991 Topps Stadium Club #481 Jamie Moyer 1992 Donruss - Diamond Kings #DK-13 Felix Jose |
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| 1992 Fleer - All Stars #1 Felix Jose 1996 Donruss #87 Brian Jordan 1996 Donruss #153 Tripp Cromer 1996 Donruss #234 Jose Oquendo 1996 Donruss #282 Mike Morgan 1996 Pacific #228 Jose Oquendo |
2016-04-19
eBay Wins #223
Continuing with 1988 Donruss, I've got 122 more cards today from my half-cent box. Only 90 are unique. so again I haven't scanned the duplicates and the one triplicate. The Cardinals were a little less dense in this bunch, allowing me to post more before running out of tag space.
Although, there are 3 Cardinals in this first scan; Jose Oquendo, obviously, along with Milt Thompson and Bobby Bonilla.
Pedro Guerrero is another former Cardinal. I remember having this specific card, or at least seeing it, when I was very young, and thinking he must be wearing football pads for some reason. Now, I'm just assuming his arms are slightly raised, like maybe he's leaning against the batting cage.
Andy Van Slyke makes another appearance in this set, along with the catcher he was traded with, Mike LaValliere, whose card had 3 copies in my bargain box.
I only know Bryn Smith as a Cardinal from the several cards I've had of him for a long time showing him in a Cardinals uniform, but I don't really remember him as an active player.
Al Pedrique would be an important part of a mini collection of mine if I ever had the time to put it together. He was the NL All Star at SS in RBI Baseball, because Ozzie Smith was already on the Cardinals. He wasn't actually an All-Star at all during his career, so I'm not sure why he was chosen.
Mike Aldrete is another case, like Carney Lansford in the last post, of a player who would one day put on the Cardinal uniform, but never actually played for the team. He was a bench coach from 2012-2014.
Mike Gallego and Jeff Parrett both came to the Cardinals later in their careers, oddly enough right as the Cardinals started getting good again.
Gerald Young was briefly a Cardinal in 1994, brief enough I've apparently never posted one of his cards before.
And we finish with Gerald Perry, the player who caused me to learn what a platoon was, and to realize you can't play every "good" player every day, but it's good to have a serviceable backup. As I recall he was used pretty often as a pinch hitter, and would sub in at first base from time to time.
Those 122 cards cost me 61 cents, bringing my bargain hunting average down just a little more again. I'm nearing 1.4 cents per card, and also nearing 4000 total cards.
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| 1988 Donruss #233 Dick Schofield (x2) #234 Jose Oquendo #235 Bill Doran #236 Milt Thompson (x2) #238 Bobby Bonilla #243 Phil Bradley (x2) #253 Bob Welch #257 Mitch Webster (x2) #258 Brian Downing |
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| 1988 Donruss #260 Carlton Fisk #261 Billy Hatcher #264 Randy Ready (x2) #265 Kurt Stillwell (x2) #266 David Palmer #267 Mike Diaz #268 Rob Thompson #270 Lee Guetterman #278 Pedro Guerrero |
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| 1988 Donruss #280 Kevin Seitzer (x2) #281 Mike Davis (x2) #283 Devon White #284 Pete O'Brien #286 Kevin Bass #287 Carmelo Martinez #288 Juan Samuel #289 Kal Daniels (x2) #290 Albert Hall (x2) |
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| 1988 Donruss #291 Andy Van Slyke #299 Mickey Hatcher #304 Pete Incaviglia #306 Bill Long #309 Darren Daulton (x2) #310 Tracy Jones (x2) #312 Mike LaValliere (x3) #314 Glenn Hubbard #320 Kent Hrbek |
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| 1988 Donruss #325 Jeff Dedmon (x2) #327 Jeffrey Leonard (x2) #332 Larry Anderson #333 Jack Howell #334 Ken Williams #335 Bryn Smith #339 Mike Greenwell #340 Claudell Washington (x2) #341 Jose Gonzalez (x2) |
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| 1988 Donruss #342 Mel Hall #344 Tony Bernazard #348 Thad Bosley #352 John Shelby #356 Gus Polidor #358 Danny Darwin (x2) #359 Lance Parrish #360 James Steels #361 Al Pedrique |
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| 1988 Donruss #362 Mike Aldrete #364 Len Dykstra #365 Luis Quinones #366 Jim Presley #367 Lloyd Moseby #371 Dave Schmidt #372 Mark Clear #373 Dave Bergman (x2) #374 Charles Hudson (x2) |
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| 1988 Donruss #375 Calvin Schiraldi #376 Alex Trevino (x2) #379 Mike Gallego #385 Don Carman #389 Rick Mahler (x2) #390 Mike Dunne (x2) #402 Brian Holton #405 Dwayne Murphy (x2) #406 Jeff Parrett |
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| 1988 Donruss #410 Dave Smith (x2) #413 Nick Esasky #414 Damaso Garcia #415 Brian Fisher (x2) #423 Matt Young #424 Steve Balboni (x2) #425 Luis Polonia (x2) #431 Gerald Young #432 Rick Schu |
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| 1988 Donruss #435 John Cangelosi #437 Gerald Perry (x2) #441 Greg Gagne #442 Jesse Barfield #445 Ed Nunez #448 Rafael Ramirez (x2) #449 John Smiley #450 Atlee Hammaker (x2) #451 Lance McCullers |
Those 122 cards cost me 61 cents, bringing my bargain hunting average down just a little more again. I'm nearing 1.4 cents per card, and also nearing 4000 total cards.
| eBay Bargain Tracker | |
| Total Cards Bought | 3963 |
| Total Spent | $55.73 |
| Per Card | 1.406 cents |
| Change | -0.029 cents |
2016-03-24
eBay Wins #217
Once again, collating all my miscellaneous penny wins by set has led me to a large amount of cards that won't fit in one post. Enjoy the first 96 1987 Topps, and their woodgrain borders that remind me of the old paneling in my parents family room. I actually had duplicates of a few, which I noted in the captions. I didn't think I really needed to see scans of all 3 Marvell Wynne cards.
Fun fact about Lonnie Smith: He was traded from the Cardinals to the Royals in 1985, and became the first player to face the team he started the season with in the World Series.
I met Jose Oquendo a few months ago. He looks younger now than he does on this card.
I also met Mike LaValliere. He doesn't have Jose's fountain of youth, but he's one of the funniest players I've met.
LaValliere and Ozzie Smith make an appearance on that Cardinals leaders card.
For whatever reason, I didn't have this Whitey Herzog card until now. That's one more off the want list.
Mike Laga is the only guy to hit the ball out of Busch Stadium II. He did it with a foul ball, though.
I've been seriously considering purchasing a 1980s powder blue Keith Hernandez jersey from Mitchell and Ness, because not only was he a great player, but he wore my favorite number, 37. Plus I don't see many Hernandez jerseys around town, whereas McGwires are still everywhere.
No Cardinals in this scan? Boooo.
And we wrap up with Todd Worrell's card featuring the Rookie Cup.
These were again out of my half-cent box, which I created to even out the less-than-a-penny-per-card lots I bought. So these 96 count for 48 cents in my tracker.
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| 1987 Topps #3 Dwight Evans #11 Indians Leaders #24 Tony Walker #29 Jimmy Key #37 Marvell Wynne (x3) #38 Dennis Leonard #51 Mel Hall #69 Lonnie Smith #70 Charlie Hough |
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| 1987 Topps #83 Mike Davis #85 Kevin Bass #92 Urbano Lugo (x2) #93 Jim Leyland (x2) #117 Jim Beattie #127 Vance Law (x2) #133 Jose Oquendo #135 Mike Easler (x2) #137 Jerry Willard |
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| 1987 Topps #138 Roy Lee Jackson #145 Charlie Kerfeld #152 Toby Harrah #156 Mariners Leaders #162 Mike LaValliere #165 Jeff Reardon (x2) #166 Bob Boone #170 Bo Jackson #175 Bob Stanley |
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| 1987 Topps #181 Cardinals Leaders #183 Andy Hawkins #187 Mark Huismann #198 Lee Mazzilli #202 Ricky Wright (x2) #213 Randy Myers #221 Vern Ruhle #240 Steve Balboni (x2) #241 Danny Heep |
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| 1987 Topps
#243 Whitey Herzog #245 Willie Upshaw #249 Jim Pankovits (x2) #253 Eddie Milner (x2) #263 Stan Javier (x2) #267 Howard Johnson #271 Mike Brown #274 Jeff Hearron #278 Gary Pettis |
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| 1987 Topps #280 Jeffrey Leonard (x2) #289 Bob Kipper #308 Don Slaught #309 Mike Young #318 Jim Fregosi #321 Mike Laga #325 Garry Templeton #333 Ken Phelps #334 Ed Correa |
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| 1987 Topps #341 Mike Brown #344 Joe Niekro #347 Mickey Brantley #350 Keith Hernandez #362 Luis Quinones #363 Jose Guzman #366 Mark McGwire #373 Jeff Dedmon #385 Orel Hershiser |
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| 1987 Topps #387 T.R. Bryden #388 Geno Petralli #401 Billy Jo Robidoux #402 Mike Trujillo (x2) #407 Jim Acker #411 Darnell Coles #438 Kelly Downs #441 Dave Leiper #461 Craig McMurtry |
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| 1987 Topps #464 Butch Wynegar #465 Todd Worrell (x2) #466 Kal Daniels #467 Randy St. Claire #468 George Bamberger #469 Mike Diaz #479 Bob Sebra #480 Jim Rice #497 Dale Mohorcic |
These were again out of my half-cent box, which I created to even out the less-than-a-penny-per-card lots I bought. So these 96 count for 48 cents in my tracker.
| eBay Bargain Tracker | |
| Total Cards Bought | 3697 |
| Total Spent | $54.39 |
| Per Card | 1.471 cents |
| Change | -0.026 cents |
2016-01-20
Zistle Trade #23
This Zistle trade was mostly from the junk wax era, but I haven't quite filled all those gaps in my collection, so there's a smattering of them on my want list. Oddly enough, my trading partner wanted some "junk" in return, so I figured, why not. I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I think it was mostly 89 or 91 Donruss.
One of these things is not like the others, and that is Bobby Dernier. The others are all Cardinals, and actually mostly guys I remember playing for the team during my childhood, except for Frank DiPino. As for Bobby, I added that to my list awhile back because he was the favorite player of a good friend of mine when he was growing up. I was looking through my collection for a card of his to perhaps try to get autographed through the mail, but I didn't have any, and thus I added a few I should be able to get cheaply to my want list. Now I just need to track down an address for Mr. Dernier, or figure out who he's working for.
I recently purchased a 1992 Donruss Series 1 set, which actually quashed the first trade this particular trader proposed to me. He did it the day after I bought the set, before I thought to remove the series 1 cards from my want list. Luckily my oversight didn't frustrate him, and we worked out a deal removing those cards. Here are the series 2 cards I still needed. If you're not a Cardinals fan, you may have forgotten that Smoltz and Bonilla both finished their careers in St. Louis. It wasn't very long for either one, but I still consider them players I collect. I've waffled about whether I should start collecting Deion Sanders cards. He'd go well with my other two-sport-star collection target, Bo Jackson. He was also a part of the very first baseball game I ever attended. I'll probably complete this base set eventually anyway, so I went ahead and added it to my wantlist, and now I have it.
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| 1988 Topps #642 Bob Dernier 1990 Score #233 Ken Hill 1991 Fleer #633 Bernard Gilkey 1991 Fleer #636 Felix Jose 1991 Fleer #640 Jose Oquendo 1991 Fleer #645 Lee Smith 1991 Topps #112 Frank DiPino 1992 Fleer #589 Gerald Perry 1992 Score #544 Bernard Gilkey |
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| 1992 Donruss #427 Bobby Bonilla 1992 Donruss #442 John Smoltz 1992 Donruss #564 Deion Sanders 1992 Donruss #610 Bobby Bonilla |
2015-12-31
Zistle Trade #21
This trade was proposed through Zistle, but was with a fellow blogger, Mark Kaz, of This Way to the Clubhouse. Here's his post on my half (or I guess it's now his half) of the trade.
I put a lot of cards on my wantlist. I probably shouldn't do that, because I'll never acquire all of them unless I come into enough money to buy them all, and also enough money to quit my job to focus on tracking them all down full time. But at least it gives traders a wide swath the choose from in order to snag some of my duplicates. This small trade covered some set fillers and some Cardinals-specific wants as well.
The old cards in the trade were a 1986 Topps Traded of Jose Oquendo, the secret weapon, who also played for Mark's New York Mets. The regular 1986 cards seem fairly easy to come by, but the traded sets, as usual, are a bit less common to find. The only other card from that set on my wantlist is Todd Worrell, though a quick look tells me I never went through and exhaustively added all the Cardinals. That would cover the two in uniform, but I collect all Cardinals in any uniform, so I'll be adding Will Clark, Dane Iorg, Joaquin Andujar, and more to my want list. You can see how it balloons so easily.
The full 33-card 1990 K-Mart set is on my want list, and Joe Magrane leaves me with 12 cards to go. I'll bet Nolan Ryan is the last one I'm able to acquire.
Opening Day is a set so cheap that I often decide I'm going to try to acquire every insert among the more common sets, basically everything but autographs/relics/printing plates, and the Alex Gordon and sideways Matt Garza cards are two of those inserts from 2011 and 2012.
I think I completed 2010, 2011, and 2013 Update, but never 2012 for some reason. But, I'm now 4 cards closer on that quest, too.
Finally there's Chris Carpenter from 2012 Archives. I really haven't jumped into Archives with both feet, but I do like getting the Cardinals from the sets. It's a level of restraint rarely seen from me when making my want lists.
Thanks for the trade, Mark! You knocked 9 cards off my want list, but thanks to the attention I paid to 1986 Topps traded, I added 12 more to it.
I put a lot of cards on my wantlist. I probably shouldn't do that, because I'll never acquire all of them unless I come into enough money to buy them all, and also enough money to quit my job to focus on tracking them all down full time. But at least it gives traders a wide swath the choose from in order to snag some of my duplicates. This small trade covered some set fillers and some Cardinals-specific wants as well.
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| 1986 Topps Traded #82T Jose Oquendo 1990 K-Mart #12 Joe Magrane 2011 Topps Opening Day - Superstar Celebrations #SC-12 Matt Garza 2012 Topps Update #US185 Donovan Solano 2012 Topps Update #US285 Ian Kinsler 2012 Topps Update #US319 A.J. Pollock RC 2012 Topps Update #US322 Jordan Danks RC 2012 Topps Archives #134 Chris Carpenter 2012 Topps Opening Day - Elite Skills #ES-2 Alex Gordon |
The full 33-card 1990 K-Mart set is on my want list, and Joe Magrane leaves me with 12 cards to go. I'll bet Nolan Ryan is the last one I'm able to acquire.
Opening Day is a set so cheap that I often decide I'm going to try to acquire every insert among the more common sets, basically everything but autographs/relics/printing plates, and the Alex Gordon and sideways Matt Garza cards are two of those inserts from 2011 and 2012.
I think I completed 2010, 2011, and 2013 Update, but never 2012 for some reason. But, I'm now 4 cards closer on that quest, too.
Finally there's Chris Carpenter from 2012 Archives. I really haven't jumped into Archives with both feet, but I do like getting the Cardinals from the sets. It's a level of restraint rarely seen from me when making my want lists.
Thanks for the trade, Mark! You knocked 9 cards off my want list, but thanks to the attention I paid to 1986 Topps traded, I added 12 more to it.
2015-10-01
September Card Show Autographs
Last weekend I attended another local card show, and this one had plenty of current Cardinals players and 1 coach/former player. Originally there were to be 7 total signers, and I bought a ticket for each. Tony Cruz was added after I purchased my tickets, so I was going to buy an autograph ticket for him on the day of the show. Right around the time Xavier Scruggs was designated for assignment a few weeks ago, I also saw a note on the website saying he would not be at this show, so I figured I could swap his ticket for a Cruz, which I did.
If you did the math up there, you can see I still should have had 7 autographs. Well, as it passed 11am, when all the signers were supposed to start at 9:30, 10, or 10:30, an announcement came over the PA that Pete Kozma would not be coming. The announcer wasn't very diplomatic about it either, and placed the blame squarely on Kozma's agent.
I've run out of plastic cubes for my autographed balls, so these are still in half of the box of a dozen I purchased. I'm probably going to try to get a bunch that are identical so they stack nicely, or maybe even some multi-ball cases.
The show itself was one of the most crowded I've been to. Part of that is because there were 7 autograph tables set up in close proximity, and the lines of people were all crossing each other. It was pretty cool to meet 5 different players all in one day. Tommy Pham had the longest line by far, because his price was set back when he was called up, and he's been playing really well lately. Kolten Wong had a bit of the opposite issue, with a price set when he was really doing well, but he's been struggling a bit lately. People asked for some pretty funny inscriptions from Tommy Pham, including "Phamtastic" and "Phambino". He looked almost embarrassed to write it, but he obliged. Another interested moment came at Jose Oquendo's table. Apparently he won't sign "The Secret Weapon", I assume due to some exclusivity deal he's got. The guy in front of me purchased Jose's full uniform from the 1985 throwback game against Kansas City earlier this year, and had him sign the jersey, pants, and cap. He asked Jose to write "1985 NL Champs" on one of the items, but Jose quickly reminded him he didn't get here until 1987. He wasn't really declining, he just said "I don't want to mess up your jersey, you know?". But the collector agreed that probably didn't make sense, and had him write something else.
All in all, it was a fun morning, and I got to meet 6 Cardinals. There should be some more opportunities to track down Pete Kozma for an autograph, if nothing else perhaps at the annual Winter Warmup run by the Cardinals.
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I've run out of plastic cubes for my autographed balls, so these are still in half of the box of a dozen I purchased. I'm probably going to try to get a bunch that are identical so they stack nicely, or maybe even some multi-ball cases.
The show itself was one of the most crowded I've been to. Part of that is because there were 7 autograph tables set up in close proximity, and the lines of people were all crossing each other. It was pretty cool to meet 5 different players all in one day. Tommy Pham had the longest line by far, because his price was set back when he was called up, and he's been playing really well lately. Kolten Wong had a bit of the opposite issue, with a price set when he was really doing well, but he's been struggling a bit lately. People asked for some pretty funny inscriptions from Tommy Pham, including "Phamtastic" and "Phambino". He looked almost embarrassed to write it, but he obliged. Another interested moment came at Jose Oquendo's table. Apparently he won't sign "The Secret Weapon", I assume due to some exclusivity deal he's got. The guy in front of me purchased Jose's full uniform from the 1985 throwback game against Kansas City earlier this year, and had him sign the jersey, pants, and cap. He asked Jose to write "1985 NL Champs" on one of the items, but Jose quickly reminded him he didn't get here until 1987. He wasn't really declining, he just said "I don't want to mess up your jersey, you know?". But the collector agreed that probably didn't make sense, and had him write something else.
All in all, it was a fun morning, and I got to meet 6 Cardinals. There should be some more opportunities to track down Pete Kozma for an autograph, if nothing else perhaps at the annual Winter Warmup run by the Cardinals.
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