The last week of graphing at the Bird Dawgs for the season was last week. There were two three-game series; one against the New Jersey Jackals and one against the New York Boulders. I had been looking forward to the Jackals coming back because Jake DeLeo signed with them. I got every DeLeo card signed the first game of the series, which was great.
I had gathered all of my DeLeo cards for my trip to see the Washington Wild Things this summer. He had been released and I was stuck with my cards. I was glad to get them all signed.
I picked up some team set cards for New Jersey and got those done. The Michael Esposito cards got smudged when he signed prior to the first game. I wiped two of them and got them redone on Wednesday. Esposito commented how he had signed for me the day before, but I told him about them being smudged. He came over and signed the two of them, but one got smudged again. I gave up fixing that one. Oh well.
I had also picked up several team set cards of some of the new Bird Dawgs cards. They all got done during the Jackals series.
I got a couple more of the customs that my friend Josh made. He corrected the "error" of misspelling Stephen Ditomaso's name.
Jesse, Chris and I caught the last Bird Dawgs home game of the season on Sunday. Several of the players came up to us after the game and thanked us for our support the entire season. It meant a lot to us that they noticed that we were there the majority of the time.
During the week, we got the following autographs: Tyler Blaum x 1, Kalae Harrison x 7, Jackson Hicks x 3, Caden O'Brien x 3, Luke Trueman x 3, Jake DeLeo x 13, Michael Esposito x 6, Albert Gonzalez x 4, Joe Testa x 9, Jaylen Smith home run #6 signed ball and Stephen DiTomaso x 1 (51 autographs).
