I bought a signed George Halas Autobiography off EBay. Mr. Halas is the 297th Football Hall of Famer in my collection. See the front and back covers and the inside page that was autographed by Mr. Halas and notes that this is a special autographed fan copy.
I picked up this Sage autograph # 8/10 of DeAndre Hopkins from EBay for less than $5. I needed his autograph as he is a current Raven and I haven't been able to get him in person and haven't seen him sign so this was a great pick up to add to the all time Ravens auto collection. See the card below.
I had sold my tickets to the game so only went for pregame autographing I was able to get 11 players for a total of 20 autographs. The following is who and what I got signed along with pictures of the items along with pics of Tavius Robinson and Michael Oher.
I saw a 1/1 of Dayton Wade who is currently on the IR list for the Ravens. I had recently picked up a cheap autograph of his since I needed one and in searches saw this one and bid and won it total was less than $8 so not bad. The card is a 2024 Leaf Vivid New In... Technicolor # T-DW1 #'d 1/1. Nice card showing him in his Ole Miss uniform.
I needed a Jaire Alexander autograph for the 2 games worth of poor play he gave the Ravens this season. They have since traded him to the Eagles and he has since taken a leave from them and may never play again. I got this 2018 Panini Playbook # 181 from EBay and total cost was about $10.60. He has a crappy autograph but it is what it is I can remove him now from my needed list
Dayton Wade is a current Raven he is on IR for the season so I needed an autograph and I haven't been able to get him in person as I hear he comes in late since on IR. I found this one for cheap on EBay under $3 so figured I'd pick it up. It's a 2024 Sage Red parallel #A-DW4.
I purchased off EBay another current Raven that I haven't been able to get in person so far. This one was a little more then $4. The Card is a 2017 Panini Certified autograph of Chidobe Awuzie #171 #'d 080/199. See the card below.
The Ravens made a trade deadline deal to bring DE Dre'Mont Jones in to help out the defense. I didn;t have his autograph and found one on EBay for about $4 so made the purchase see the card below with him in his College Ohio State uniform.
The Ravens traded for Alohi Gilman a few weeks ago and I didn't have his autograph so I purchased a cheap one from EBay for about $6 shipped. I haven't seen him sign at the couple home games since he's been on the team so figured why not. See a picture of the card below.
I needed a Ryan Cooper as he was with the Ravens for a short time, and I never got him in person. I figured I saw this one on EBay and it wasn't a lot of money so figured I'd buy it.
Someone I know on Facebook went to a Dick's House of Sport in store signing with former Yankee Star Bernie Williams on November 1st. He was able to get 2 handouts signed (Which was all he was signing) so he had one available and we came to a deal with mine arriving in today's mail.
I have needed an autograph of Jermaine Whitehead since he was briefly on the Ravens roster back in 2015. I found one on EBay but it was more than I wanted to spend, but the next day I was offered it at 50% so I bought it. The item is an 8x10 and has him in Auburn Uniform.
I missed these 2 3x5 autographs on my first post so figured I would do an additional post for them. I did get Ravens Jacob Hummel & Lukas Scott see picture below of there autographs.
Yesterday Everett & I went to the Ravens game and did autographs before the game. I was able to get 20 autographs from 11 players. After the game I did get John Harbaugh's Hat and Tylan Wallace's Game towel. The win was the most important thing that happened as gets Ravens to 2-5 and 2 games behind the Steelers who lost last night, we have 2 games with them so there is a path to the playoffs just have to go step by step week by week. Pictures of autos and items below with a listing of the autographs. JJ Watt did the game for CBS for the second time this season in Baltimore but didn't sign.
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| Harbaugh Hat Name inside |
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| Snoop to Derrick |
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| National Anthem |
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| JJ Watt in Booth |
Malaesala Aumavae-Laulu was a Ravens 6th round draft pick back in 2023 he dressed for just 2 games and he didn't sign when I saw him so with him long gone I needed an autograph for the Ravens all-time roster. These 2 8x10's where offered by the same seller and paid less than $6 each. So not to bad to get him off my need list as he is out of the NFL at this point.
A friend doesn't collect baseball and got this 2013 Bowman Jonathan Gray # BDPP26 so he sent it to me. He also makes Custom Ravens cards and I asked him for a basic Tony Siragusa card which he also sent to me. I then had a hat that I was going to throw out but it had a Tony autograph so I repurposed it in to a cut Hat Relic card. See both cards below.
Everett and I went to the 1 PM Rams at Ravens game at M&T Bank Stadium. The game wasn't great for the home team as they fell 17-3 and are now 1-5. We did autographs before the game and was able to get a total of 42 autos from 32 Players. This was twice as many as last week which was probably the worst week ever for me at a game. Tom Brady did the game for Fox and Ray Lewis was at the game so some fun interaction between the 2 pregame. see below for a list of what I got signed and pictures from the game. Post game was able to also get a Skull Cap from the Ravens Travis Jones.
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| Ray Lewis & Tom Brady messing around |
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| Derrick Henry arrives |
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| Matthew Stafford Dropping back. |
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| Pregame chat Ray Lewis, Tom Brady & Steve Bisciotti |
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| Tom Brady taking a selfie with kids. |
I went to Central Penn College for the show they have quarterly I believe it's about 40 minutes away so I don't always go. This show also has increased Pokémon card vendors which I have zero interest in. I went looking for some cards that I can try and get signed in the future. I was able to find some Rams for tomorrow, Ravens for this season and found a few for the Hershey Bears. Also purchased 4 autographs 2 baseball and 2 hockey. In total I got 49 cards for $18.
This autograph was from the Texans Ravens game was misplaced in my book and just found it today is of Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair.
Yesterday I went to the Texans 44-10 blow out of the Ravens! Horrible game by the Ravens enough said! As for autographs it was also a bad day for that as well with only getting a total of 19 autos from 13 players from both teams. The Texans had a guy at the player tunnel telling players not to stop there were 6-10 players that were going to sign and push into the tunnel and didn't sign. First time ever seeing that at M&T Bank Stadium. Also the National broadcast was CBS and JJ Watt had the game and was turned down 3 different time before & after the game outside Stadium and also at the press box. In addition to the game there was a halftime concert by Tyler Hubbard (Florida Georgia Line). I was able to get a Skull Cap from Kenyon Green after the game too. All in all great weather for an October Football game besides that it wasn't great lol.
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| Tyler Hubbard |
Last night Everett and I went to The Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA for the Geoff Tate concert. This concert included the playing of the entire Queensryche Operation Mindcrime album. There was 2 opening acts both were just ok first was Tomas McCarthy and then Indio Downey. As for the headliner portion Tate played about 2 hours first half of the show was the Mindcrime album with the second half being various career spanning queensryche songs for the complete set-list see the picture below as I was able to get one and a couple of picks from guitarists James Brown & Kieran Robertson.
Links to some videos from the show:
Spreading the Disease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv7SEMgSJsU
The Needle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEBFLQfMs68
I Don't Believe in Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24X_F3Kr3yg
Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhScC7wJWI
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| Geoff Tate |
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| Jack Ross |
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| Kieran Robertson |
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| James Brown & Dario Parente |
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| Clodagh McCarthy |
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| Robert Baker |
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| Set-List and Picks from Geoff Tate |
