[jaykayzee]

I made the drive to the National for a day trip on Friday. What an experience!! Definitely plan to go again, and stay for a few days next time around, there's just so much going on!

Headed over to the Dave & Adams set-up, and they told me about these Historic Autographs redemption tins. They look like a mint or cough drop tin. You buy one ($125) and take it to the HA stand, where you open it and they redeem right at the show.

The Redemptions are for Auto'd balls, photos, jerseys and some other stuff.

I bought 2, and one ended up being a nice football hit :

I got REALLY EXCITED when I saw THIS:



Then they flipped it around:


Really great auto and inscription:





Now the Crazy (and maybe a little heartbreaking) story -

There was a woman who bought one of these right before me. She came over at the same time as I did, and pulled a redemption for a STAN MUSIAL AUTOGRAPHED BASEBALL!!! The ball was as sweet as it gets, sealed in a ballcube with PSA/DNA sticker certifying it!!
The guy at the stand congratulates her, turns around, pulls the ballcube out of the display case, BANG!! Hits his hand on the case door, AND DROPPED THE WHOLE THING BROKE THE CASE OPEN AND BALL ROLLS ON FLOOR!!!! He quickly grabbed it all up and said he would get it re-sealed and re-certified for her. I don't know what happened after that...

OUCH!!!

[demondukk]

Cool hit on the Barney!

Yea, sucks about that ball! Hopefully they did something else for the lady to make up for the snafu!

[gocardinals]

very nice jersey..those are pretty cool..

[uwash97]

I thought the heartbreaking part of that story was when they turned the jersey around and it didn't say "Sanders" across the back... :p Still, that's a nice jersey, and a really cool "instant redemption" idea. What did the other tin get you?

[jaykayzee]

I thought the heartbreaking part of that story was when they turned the jersey around and it didn't say "Sanders" across the back... :p Still, that's a nice jersey, and a really cool "instant redemption" idea. What did the other tin get you?

Yeah, I liked the idea too, they said they had alot of real positive feedback on it, so it might be a continuing idea. The other tin got me a auto'd Gaylord Perry "New York" jersey. Pics are in the baseball forum.

As for the SANDERS part, it almost got me too. I was opening the tin that had the Perry redemption while the they opened the other for me and all I heard was "You got another auto jersey from....." didn't hear the name. Then they went behind the wall for the jerseys and I just saw that "20" Lions blue jersey and took a big breath before they flipped it. STILL an awesome vintage player, and I'm a big fan of the inscription!

[ricky williams 34]

Great hit!! Bummer on the ball though. At least he didn't drop it in the dirt, water, or mud. Let's look at the bright side! LOL

[alstott9adams]

Poor Lady