When planning my birthday week, I realized that I hadn't seen Norfolk all season, and that they were going to be in Durham when I was coming back from Maryland. So, Chris and I planned to hit Durham on Saturday, September 14 (my birthday) to do some more graphing.
We left Hagerstown Friday night and drove about an hour and a half south til I was too tired to drive any further. We stayed overnight just past DC and got up the next morning to head to Durham. I wasn't planning on doing arrival there, but as we were walking toward the stadium, we saw our good friend, Billy, outside graphing with two other graphers we knew, John and Jacob. We got Daniel Johnson almost right away, so we stuck around and graphed with them, then went to get a drink to wait til the gates opened.
One of the highlights of this trip to Durham was knocking out several more Morgan Ensberg cards. I got my steps in as I was following him when he signed, but we did knock out 10 more of his cards. I also added one more card to my 2024 Durham team set in Michael Gomez.
Jacob Waguespack was easy to spot; he may as well have been wearing a name tag. His shirt had his name on it, advertising his family's business.
I finally finished this 2024 Topps Heritage Mini Jacob Lopez. I busted two boxes of Mini, and loved them. Once the word got out on them, the boxes got tough to find.
I chipped away at my 2023 Norfolk team set while in Durham, hitting three coaches and Nick Vespi.
I hit all of the Garrett Cooper cards that I could find in a pinch, since I had sent him out for a 50/50 a while back. I also had picked up a few of his cards while I was at a card shop.outside of Hagerstown the day before. I also got a bunch of Corbin Martin done. I found even more after I got home once I figured out where I had sat the hoard I piled up when I thought I'd see him with Buies Creek years ago (I was wrong, he was beyond BC by then).
Forrest Wall and Daniel Johnson cleaned us out, which was great. There are still some Johnsons in a box somewhere around here that I had pulled for 50/50s, but I have no idea where I sat them.
Finally, here are a couple Levi Stoudt cards that I got signed. He was a really nice guy and credit to the little kid who called him the wrong name, which Stoudt corrected and said "No, I'm Levi". Thanks for the help, kid!
In all, we got the following autographs: Morgan Ensberg x 10, Michael Gomez x 1, Jacob Lopez x 1, Jacob Waguespack x 1, Samuel Basallo x 2, Buck Britton x 1, Garrett Cooper x 5, Daniel Johnson x 5, Corbin Martin x 12, Chayce McDermott x 1, Justin Ramsey x 1, Ramon Sambo x 1, Levi Stoudt x 4, Nick Vespi x 1 and Forrest Wall x 5 (51 total autographs).
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