A bunch of Fan Fest pics
Tedw9
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Hey All,
I was lucky enough to be at Fan Fest on Saturday and took a TON of pictures. I resized some and thought I would share. I will start with a few and if you all want more please just say so. I have about 30 or so I can post including what I picked up while I was there.
Lets start with what I walked into when I first went to the collectors area. This is a pic of the autograph line....I have read that some folks stood for 6.5 hours for autographs! I wanted to look around, so I waited until later.
This is the Topps booth to the left of the autograph line. They were selling sets and special patch cards. I passed on both, but regret passing on the patch cards.
Upper Deck booth selling figures for $70 and $100 each! They both had redemption areas, you purchase 5 UD packs or 3 Topps packs, open them in front of them and get free cards. I got a few Yankee cards from UD and a sweet Babe Ruth card from Topps.
This dealer had an insane amout of signed baseballs!
Rawlings had a booth also, and was dispalying a Mickey Mantle glove. I am from the sticks, so I have only seen items like this in auction catalogs.
A view from the left of the autograph platform. As I said, the line was insanely long!
A view of the autograph platform. I thought I had a player in the pic, but must have missed. The guy standing is an authenticator from MLB. Nice guy who chatted with me while I was up there. I was glad to see every autograph get authenticated by MLB.
One major auction house had these game used gloves, among other things, on display for their recent auction. This booth had some incredible stuff! I forgot what auction house it was.
Same booth, the first Babe Ruth autograph I had seen in person.
Downstairs in the interactive area. Sorry for the blurry pic, I was trying to stay out of peoples way.
I hope you all enjoy these, I have more if you would like to see them.
I was lucky enough to be at Fan Fest on Saturday and took a TON of pictures. I resized some and thought I would share. I will start with a few and if you all want more please just say so. I have about 30 or so I can post including what I picked up while I was there.
Lets start with what I walked into when I first went to the collectors area. This is a pic of the autograph line....I have read that some folks stood for 6.5 hours for autographs! I wanted to look around, so I waited until later.
This is the Topps booth to the left of the autograph line. They were selling sets and special patch cards. I passed on both, but regret passing on the patch cards.
Upper Deck booth selling figures for $70 and $100 each! They both had redemption areas, you purchase 5 UD packs or 3 Topps packs, open them in front of them and get free cards. I got a few Yankee cards from UD and a sweet Babe Ruth card from Topps.
This dealer had an insane amout of signed baseballs!
Rawlings had a booth also, and was dispalying a Mickey Mantle glove. I am from the sticks, so I have only seen items like this in auction catalogs.
A view from the left of the autograph platform. As I said, the line was insanely long!
A view of the autograph platform. I thought I had a player in the pic, but must have missed. The guy standing is an authenticator from MLB. Nice guy who chatted with me while I was up there. I was glad to see every autograph get authenticated by MLB.
One major auction house had these game used gloves, among other things, on display for their recent auction. This booth had some incredible stuff! I forgot what auction house it was.
Same booth, the first Babe Ruth autograph I had seen in person.
Downstairs in the interactive area. Sorry for the blurry pic, I was trying to stay out of peoples way.
I hope you all enjoy these, I have more if you would like to see them.
Looking for Carl Willey items.
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Glad to hear you had a good time and thanks for sharing.
<< <i>Who was signing autographs? >>
Here is the list for all days. For who was there when I took the pic, I believe it was Fred Lynn and Steve Garvey plus one other. But thats what I was told.
Friday, July 11th: Bob Watson, Dick Williams, Fred Lynn, Luis Aparicio, Mickey Rivers, Rollie Fingers, Roy White, Steve Sax, George Foster, Jack McDowell and Jeff Nelson
Saturday, July 12th: Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins, Fred Lynn, Gaylord Perry, Harmon Killebrew, Orlando Cepeda, Oscar Gamble, Robin Roberts, Rollie Fingers and Steve Sax
Sunday, July 13th: Billy Williams, Bob Feller, Dick Williams, Earl Weaver, Fergie Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Harmon Killebrew, Juan Marichal, Ben Vance, Luis Aparicio, Robin Roberts and Art Shamsky
Monday, July 14th: Andre Dawson, Bob Feller, Earl Weaver, Gary Carter, Goose Gossage, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda, Paul Molitor, Rollie Fingers and Tony Gwynn
Tuesday, July 15th: Andre Dawson, Graig Nettles, Mike Torres, Tommy John, Ron Blomberg, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool and Tim Leary
Just off the top of my head, I'm wondering why there isn't some sort of effort to include a bigger card show as part of the FanFest.