Friday, June 3: Toronto Blue Jays

I had NO plans or intentions to go this morning. I had nothing for the Blue Jays except a Roy Halladay card and some blanks. At 11:30 PM last night I decided to go to the hotel to try to get a Roy Halladay autograph.

I woke up at 7:00 AM and arrived at the hotel at 8:00 AM. When I arrived their was only 2 other collectors, Vincent and one other man who's name I do not recall. Here was the setup for the hotel, my view.

Right after that I was told by the man (who's name I do not know) that the 2003 American League Cy Young Award winner was in Starbucks. The man sold me a photofile of Halladay for $5. The three of us go over to Starbucks to try to confirm he is their. We see him and he sees us as well. Just when I thought he was going to go out from he went straight and we knew he would come out of the main entrance! We ran over, beat him their and we asked him to sign. He said yes and as his was going to sign a security gaurd started yelling at us and he got in the cab. But then he pointed to the street. Meanwhile the man ran over a few blocks to try to get him. Apparently he had no luck. The only ones their now was Vincent and I. We noticed that Roy's cab was in traffic and we ran into the street during the red light. He had already pulled down his window and he signed 1 of 1 for both me and Vincent! Vincent asked him to incsribe 2003 A.L CY but he was denied. I got very nervous because as he was signing for me the light turned green and I thought I was going to get screwed over. I was so happy, my day was complete and he gave a pretty nice autograph. Here are the pictures:

Here is the close up of the autograph:

In the next 30 minutes about 20 more people looking for autographs showed up.

In the next 5 minutes Brett Cecil walked out. He signed a blank for me.

Here was the scan.

Believe or not that was it. I would get a total of two autographs that day. One by the best pitcher in the American League and another by one of the top 100 prospects in baseball, the number 3 Toronto Blue Jays prospect. I was very happy, because most people got shut out.

As for all the other players they all said no, most of them took the bus and the only one who signed off the bus was Alan Ashby who did it for 4 people (thanks for pushing me out Shelden!).

That was it!

thanks for reading,

Danilo