7/24/13 Part 2: CT Tigers Vs. Staten Island (Yankees)

After I left New Britain yesterday, I went home to pick up my dad, and immediately went down to Norwich to catch my second game of the day. We got there when the gates were opening, and I saw that the team sets were out so I picked up one of those.

Joe Flattery was signing in the team store, so I got him on a team sheet since he was not included in the set. He was very nice, and seemed shy. That isn't very uncommon in this league, since a lot of the kids are experiencing their first weeks in professional baseball. Going on with this note, it was such a huge difference even in my experience yesterday, although it has already become a very obvious thing, that the player interactions differ greatly from Short-season A ball to AA, and AAA.

The main target for the day was the Yankees' first round pick, Eric Jagielo. He was a really nice kid, and was drafted in June out of Notre Dame.

I got a few random Yankees on a team sheet, but other than Jagielo, I didn't have a ton of interest in that side.

Andury Acevedo

Giovanny Gallegos

Kale Sumner

Yeicok Calderon

As always, I added a few Jonathon Crawford autos to the collection. If you are new to the blog, Crawford was the Tigers' 2013 1st round pick.

He was charting, which made things easy:

Before the game, I was able to put a dent in the team set. I probably would have gotten more, but Miss USA who apparently is from Connecticut was there, and the players were all hanging out with her.

Jonathon Crawford

Brett Harrison

Javier Azcona

Scott Sitz

Raph Rhymes

Ben Verlander

Tyler Gibson

Hunter Scantling

Patrick Leyland

Mark Johnson

Mike Rabelo

Tanner Bailey

I had a bunch of Mike Rabelo cards left over from last season, so I had him finish those up. Mike had a big league career with a number of teams, and is now the hitting coach for the Tigers:

Total Autographs at this game: 30

Total Autographs on 7/24: 82

Total Autographs for 2013: 684