Friday, July 12, 2013

Steven "Paco" Rodriguez (Sports Authority) (7-12-13)

I went to Sports Authority in Torrance today because Steven "Paco" Rodriguez was scheduled for a signing from 11 am to 12 pm. I got there about 45 minute early and there was already about 100 people in line. He started signing at 11 and I ended up getting his autograph at 11:30. When I finished getting his autograph and went outside there was about another 100 people including 50 more people inside. So overall there was about 250 people and I ended up leaving with just a signed ball on the sweet spot and had him inscribe his MLB debut since it was one per: 





Saturday, July 6, 2013

Paul Rodriguez (Nike Santa Monica) (7-5-13)

I heard about this signing about a week prior to it and since he was my favorite skater and it was for the P-Rod 7 release I had to go. When I got to the signing there was way more people then I expected there was about 250 people when I arrived and grew to about 300 at the end of the event. He was signing for 2 hours but he ended up signing for about an extra 30 minutes so he could get through everyone. So I ended up getting a photo that they had the table and had him inscribe 4x GOLD MEDALIST: 

Drew League, SEA @ LAA (6-20-13), and Kenley Jansen Signing

I haven't been posting for about a month now but I am going to be recapping the past month of graphing and ball hawking. To start off on the 16th I headed out to the Drew League to watch Money Gang play because I had heard that The Game (rapper) and Kwame Alexander (Basketball player at CSUSB) were going to be playing. I got to the game early and waited until the game ended to get their autographs:


The on the 20th I went to the Angels game because the Mariners were in town. When I got there I went to the Angels team store to kill some time and as I was walking out Mark Langston was walking into the stadium. I asked him if he could sign and he did:


Then about 30 minutes later Clyde Wright walked into the stadium and I asked him if he could sign and he did:


Inside the stadium I got Blake Beaven (signed under Clyde Wright in the photo above), Robert Coello at the end of Angels BP and Jeremy Bonderman in the bullpen during Mariners BP:


During that game I was also ball hawking and managed to get a ball from Jaime Navarro the Mariners bullpen coach and Carl Willis the Mariners pitching coach. Both of those were during BP. After BP I got Carl Willis to throw me Felix Hernandez' Pre-Game warm-up ball and then I got Carter Capps to throw me his warm-up ball before he entered the game.


The last autograph I got in June was at an autograph signing. Kenley Jansen was scheduled to sign at a T-Mobile in LA and I decided to go since I didn't think there would be too many people. I was right and I was about 70th in line so I got him to sign on my Dodgers team ball:


And that is it for graphing and ball hawking in the month of June but stay tuned for upcoming posts.