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RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - mouschi3 - 05-28-2015

So, it looks like my story was picked up by Beckett! I hope to be in the hard copy magazine as well.

Since they posted a few pics of some customs I had signed, I guess I'll continue on with telling about them!

In typical unorthodox mouschi form, http://tanmanbaseballfan.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-turn-20-in-cards-into-priceless.html <-- destroyed $20 worth of Canseco rookies to make a booklet.

At long last, here it is ... autographed! If you don't read the above link, it probably won't make sense, but for cliff's notes, a few people were nice enough to send me some of their beat up Canseco rookies for free so I could hack them up, and make a booklet which included a piece of each major rookie card from Canseco.

Hmmmm, I seem to recall Topps cutting up some weird things too for their latest minor league release.

Anyway, here she is!

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Next up, is a card I took cuts from Canseco's 2 books. Here is what it looked like:

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When I was done, my wife said "that looks great, but you named it ATHLETES to authors ... where is the baseball stuff?"

DANG IT.

So I re-did it and came up with this.

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What I used is ALL legit Canseco stuff ... except for the ball. I got that ttp://tanmanbaseballfan.blogspot.com/2014/05/first-family-baseball-outing-lots-of.html <-- from the game my family and I went to for my birthday. The memories were great enough that I decided to forego using a game used ball I picked up from a game Canseco was in.

So, here it is signed!

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It is one of my wife's favorites. It is inscribed 6x All-Star and 2x Author. When he was done with that, he asked "Do you want me to write in Juiced and Vindicated also?"

HECK YES I DO!!!!

So he did Smile

Oh, and for those of you interested in checking out the beckett writeup, http://www.beckett.com/news/2015/05/custom-card-creators-hobby-leads-to-autograph-signing-at-jose-cansecos-house/ <-- here you go.

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - pjrussell529 - 05-28-2015

Again amazing story and experience for you Tanner. Possible once in a lifetime kind of thing. Your designs are awesome and your ideas are one of a kind. Panini and Topps should be knocking down your door. I've got to say I'm somewhat jealous that you got a chance to spend some quality time with your hero, I'd love a chance just to hang out with Eric Davis for just a few hours like that.

Congratulations and thank you for sharing your story.

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - paulkellyjr - 05-28-2015

Awesome!!

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - mouschi3 - 05-29-2015

Sooooo ... I just got an email from Chris Olds, the editor of Beckett. "Check out the front page."

BAM!!!!

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The stache doing the bash w/Jose smack dab, front and center of Beckett Online. #tryingtostaycoolaboutit #nochanceofthathappening

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - rentzington - 05-29-2015

just spent part of my lunch reading this thread and it was worth it! amazing story something you and you family will never forget, you just can't put a price on that.

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - natejeffries - 05-29-2015

would have liked to ask him about Madonna

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - muz0 - 05-29-2015

That's is just incredible. This Is beyond a once in a lifetime event. I don't even know. That's great and glad you got to hit your goal of goals. Awesome story and congrats. Enjoy it!

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - mouschi3 - 05-30-2015

I'm going to be posting this in its own thread later, but I wanted to keep it in this thread for documentation purposes.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
It has been a long time in the making, and is really hard for me not to build this up too much, only to have you be seriously let down in the end. Just understand that at the end of this, you will think to yourself "pfffbt...that was all?" (This is me trying to bring your expectations back down.)

Okay, I'll stop going around in circles and get to it. This might just be one of the most important pieces I have made ever. Technically speaking, there isn't necessarily a WOW factor. It doesn't have a player's tooth embedded in it, nor will it make you breakfast or sing to you.

The thing that makes this special, is that this card simply should not exist.

I know, you are thinking to yourself ... none of the cards I make should exist, but this one is different.

Here it is:

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What is so special about this?

If you have been a reader of my blog for a while, you know that this is actually a newer rendition of the http://tanmanbaseballfan.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-first-custom-booklet.html" first booklet I ever put together using a 25 cent A's hat from a garage sale, pizza cutter, exacto knife and elmer's glue stick. You do remember, don't you? Here is a refresher if you didn't click the link:

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This was before I had access to anything I use now, as well as any game used material. I was so proud of it. I started thinking how cool would it be to have this as a higher quality booklet ... but instead of game used pieces, have their autographs.

The problem?

Mark McGwire.

He will flat out not sign ANYTHING with Jose on it. But don't take it from me ...

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See folks? I wasn't kidding! He sounds serious, too. I mean, look at the look on his face and the gratuitous usage of exclamation marks in his word bubble!

This is the face of a man who will not be signing anything anytime soon next to Canseco.

Panini came close to fulfilling the dreams of bash brother fans by producing this card:

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But I think they missed the mark ... as in Mark McGwire ... being in a FREAKING CARDINALS UNIFORM! C'mon!!!! Bash brothers ... both need to be wearing the green and gold. If this is the closest we are going to get, I knew I had to take action.

You may remember a few months ago I showed off my McGwire refractor that was autographed thanks to a connection Bluejet66 had.

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While I was mega pumped with how this turned out, I confess I didn't tell you the whole story.

You see, while I did have him sign the above card I also had him sign another. A card that he almost did NOT sign, likely due to suspicion of some sort.

After Big Mac's hesitation, he went ahead and signed!

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One can only speculate why he hesitated to sign this, and what was going through his head as to why someone wanted him to sign a baseball card that was of his back.

With as excited as I was about the USA refractor getting autographed, I was MUCH more excited for this, because all I had to do was to get Jose to sign the other piece. Since I had all the pieces ready, I carefully (without too much sweat) assembled the only on-card dual auto booklet of the bash brothers known to man-kind ... or at least known to me-kind.

Here is what working on it until 3:00 AM last night got me.

I present to you: The Book of Bash -

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I still cannot believe it is done! Over the past several months, it looked like Mark wasn't going to sign. Then it looked like Jose might not sign. Here we are though! I have it proudly displayed on my desk in a one-touch booklet holder.

This is just another reason why I love creating custom cards so much - a card like this may never exist ... ever, and yet here it is shining on my desk in all of its on-card auto, bash brotherly goodness.

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - magneto2 - 05-30-2015

Very cool addition!!! You have a gift! Congrats on the meet and greet and everything else life gives from this day forward!!

RE: Chasing Canseco - Best Day Ever. - zeprock - 05-31-2015

OK. On my next road trip, I'm coming to see YOU.

Congrats again on the experience but also on the Beckett front page, forthcoming hard copy edition and other accolades that are sure to come your way.