First things first congratulations to The Diamond King who successfully & was the first to respond to the contest that I ran during my 1 year anniversary post. So I hope you can send me your information via email & I'll be glad to send you the 1994 SP Alex Rodriguez RC in the mail also tell me how you figured it so quickly & which clues gave ya a hard time figuring out. Now for the reason behind the title of this post. It's quite simple & hopefully I can get the time off to attend it the 43rd National Sports Card Convention is Rosemont,Illinois.
I generally go with my partner in crime as you know from the blogging world the author of THE COLLECTIVE MIND Blog from Maryland my friend Greg ever since we try to make it our annual trip to visit the other person. In years past since the 1st one we attended back in 2010 in his home state of Maryland the Baltimore show we try to make the Chicago trip every other year when we can. The Reasoning behind those 3 cards shown on top is 1 of the signers that if I was lucky to get on an official ball & then a card would be Al Oliver the card shown is from Greg's & mine case break when we opened a case of the 2024 Topps Heritage Low Numbers last June when I went to visit him unfortunately the Oliver card is Greg's so Ill have to get my own somehow I am also trying to convince him to get an official ball to go with it but he's not interested in doing that not his top priorities at the moment but each his own eh. The other signers that we might run into even though I have met Bill Madlock before shown in this picture with yours truly I never had the 4x Time Batting Champion sign an official ball for me so I would get him on that as well another card so I can put it in a display holder to add to my PC but time will tell if I am going to do that.
The other signer who might run into is former NBA Star center of the Hometown Chicago Bulls Bill Cartwright!!!! Would I go for getting a guy like Cartwright to sign Yes & No the reasoning behind that answer is well.....back when he was a Bulls dominating center for them I was a die-hard Detroit Pistons fan of the Bad Boys like Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn, Dennis Rodman, Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, John Salley. So I would be like going to the Dark side of the 2 rivals & would just maybe yell like our good friend Mr. Wong shown here Cartwright!!!! Cartwright!!!! see if he'd answer. But the collector in me would say get him at least to sign his `88/`89 Fleer Card,`89/`90 Hoops Card or `89/`90 Fleer Card or 1 of 3 years when the Bulls won the Championship cause ya know ya ain't ever going to get Michael Jordan to sign anything as well an official ball to go with my Magic Johnson autograph ball & my Chris Kamen autographed ball as well so I am not sure yet on if I will do it or not. The show starts in 1 month & 1 week from this post & I can't wait Ill try to do a daily blog report from the show during my 2.5 Night/day time if I am allowed to go so stay tuned for more news about my trip to the National again until then I am reminded by Rogers Hornsby who said " Any Ballplayer who doesn't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American, He's a Communist."
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