Connecticut (Tigers) Vs. Tri-City (Astros) 6/24/13

Last night I once again went down to Norwich, because Tri-City, the Houston Astros NYPL affiliate, were in town. To the casual baseball fan, this league may look like there are no names you have heard of before, but in reality, it is a gold mine of baseball talent, who might in 3 or 4 seasons turn into solid MLB players.

Before the game I was able to get all of the photos I brought done.

For Connecticut I had 2013 1st rounder, Jonathan Crawford:

I also got to meet Ben Verlander, the brother of Tigers superstar Justin Verlander:

Pat Leyland, the son of Jim Leyland also plays for Connecticut:

I also did a team sheet for Connecticut:

From Top to Bottom I got:

Hunter Scantling

Austin Schotts

Javier Azcona

Brett Harrison

Curt Powell

Duncan McAlpine

For Tri-City, I had photos for a bunch of players as well.

Andrew Thurman who was a 2nd rounder in this year's draft LOVED the photo of him at the Astros game, and hadn't seen it so I gave him one. He was a very nice kid:

I also had photos of Conrad Gregor:

Anthony Kemp is also a new Houston prospect. He plays second base, and is an even smaller guy than Dustin Pedroia. He is a good ball player though:

After the game I did a team sheet for Tri-City, and was able to get 23 players on it. I had gotten Chia-Jen Lo on the concourse before the game, but other than him everyone was post game. The photo is labeled with numbers which correspond to the player's name in the list:

1
2 Zach Morton
3 Chia-Jen Lo
4 (This autograph was labeled twice on accident)
5 Anthony Kemp
6 Albert Minnis
7 Russ Steinhorn
8 Kyle Westwood
9 Richard Rodriguez
10 Charles Basford
11 Dan Gulbransen
12 Ed Romero
13 Thomas Lindauer
14 Ronnie Mitchell
15 Andrew Walter
16 Michael Martinez
17 Adrian Houser
18
19 Ryan Dineen
20 Evan Grills
21 Luis Alvarez
22
23 Andrew Thurman


I do realize the logo is 90 degrees to the right, but players started to sign it sideways, and it went from there:

One of the highlights of my night was meeting former Red Sox, Ed Romero. He was very strange, and made me like run with him to the bus. He wasn't as nice as I had hoped, but I was able to add the 103rd Red Sox I have met to my list.

I also took a picture with 2012 2nd round pick, Adrian Houser.

Total Autographs at this game: 55

Total Autographs for 2013: 486