On Wednesday, the Winston-Salem Dash hosted the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in another exhibition game. I had two tickets, since Winston-Salem was doing a $0.52 promotion, but ended up being unable to fill the second spot. That ended up being ok, because the graphing scene (at least on the Kannapolis side) was a mess.
Players from both teams limes up on the field pregame for a signing event, but it was very disorganized. Rosters with uniform numbers hadn't been released prior to the game, so we had to ask everyone what their name was. That was pretty embarrassing, but I've had to do it before. Still, everyone was pretty cool and signed a good bit of what I had. Most limited, but that was ok. I can try to see Winston-Salem again soon.
The White Sox have quite a few guys with Bowman cards from the last several years. I knocked out a lot of players who had been in my Bowman box for years like the two 2022 Bowman Wilber Sanchez cards.
It turned out that the Kannapolis guys who lined up for the signing had no cards. They were cool about it though and chatted with us for a bit. We made our way to the Kannapolis dugout, which ended up being swamped. I was in the scrum, right in the middle of it, but still got a few guys that I needed. I wasn't too worried about the guys that I missed because I plan to catch them in either Fayetteville or Zebulon. Hopefully I can.
I ended up leaving early, around the 3rd inning, because I had a long ride home. I did get to see George Wolkow launch a bomb of a home run. He crushed that ball.
I had a good time, even though graphing is more fun with friends.
In all, I got the following autograohs: Sam Antonacci x 2, Lucas Gordon x 4, Wes Kath x 1, Seth Keener x 3, Jeral Perez x 3, Wilber Sanchez x 2, Samuel Zavala x 2, Ryan Burrowes x 4, Darius Day x 2, Nick McLain x 3, Brayden Montgomery x 1, Casey Saucke x 2, Jordan Sprinkle x 5 and George Wolkow x 5 (39 total autos).
