Entries from August 2009

August 18, 2009

Jair Jurrjens – Publix Atlanta

The Braves have recently been doing a promotional/community event called “Shopping With the Braves” with one of their corporate sponsors – Publix.  About once a month, they send a couple of players out to one of the Atlanta area Publix and have them bag groceries and sign autographs.  Being that the opportunity to get Braves [...]

August 18, 2009

Yunel Escobar – Collectors Show

One of the reasons I decided to head on down to the ATL for the “Shopping with the Braves” event was because Yunel Escobar was also going to be doing a paid, public signing at a small memorabilia show nearby.  If you have read through GraphLife before, you have probably noticed that I have gotten [...]

August 6, 2009

GraphLife Retro – Andruw Jones

When I started Graphlife in January of 2008, my desire was to simply begin with that year’s successes, thinking that it would be pretty tough to go back and chronicle some of the autographs that had come my way in prior years.  As I have moved forward with my collecting  I have often wanted to [...]