Tuesday, June 24, 2025

June 17-22, 2025, Graphing of the ValleyCats at Bird Dawgs

Another week has gone by and another Bird Dawgs series is in the books.  The Tri-City ValleyCats came to town this padt week.  There weren't many guys with cards on the team other than last year's ValleyCats team set.  I went ahead and bought a team set, and my buddy Gerard bought one as well.  I also bought the other cards of the few guys who had them.  One of the cards I found was the above Wake Forest card of Jake Reinisch.  I was glad to add this to the album. 
Oscar Campos was one of the other guys who had team set cards from other teams.  He stopped and signed for me and added the different uniform numbers he had each year.  He was really nice.
I got probably half of last year's team set signed.  I'm not sure what I'll be able to do with the other unsigned cards, but they're here in case those guys show up elsewhere.
John McHenry was the last of the ValleyCats guys with other team set cards.  I dod get a couple new cards of guys on the Bird Dawgs; a card of Brett Wellman, the Bird Dawgs manager, and a 2024 Rancho Cucamonga card of David Tiburcio.  I had bought two 2024 Rancho Cucamonga sets for my upcoming road trip since most of those guys are on Great Lakes now. It worked out that one of the extra guys was able to get signed. It was even better that it was a Bird Dawg.

In all, I got the following autographs: Austin Dill x 2, Demias Jimerson x 2, Jake Reinisch x 1, Greg Tagert x 2, Ian Walters x 2, Javeyan Williams x 2, David Tiburcio x 2, Oscar Campos x 5, John McHenry x 4, Kyle Novak x 2, Gino Sabatine x 2, Tom Thornton x 2, Arlo Marynczak x 2, Brett Wellman x 1 and Easton Klein x 2 (33 total autographs).

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