What a great week!!!

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Where do I start? I guess we should go back to last week when I won this from the Topps Vault on eBay:

Troy Tulowitzki 2010 National ChicleCard w/ ORIGINAL Artwork and Cert:

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It just came in the mail yesterday...

THEN, with the Cardinals in town, I got some more Holliday items signed for the collection - a Rockies Rawlings Mini-Mitt and a 2010 ASG Ball (no pics right now). I missed Pujols signing - apparently he signed the 1st night when they arrived and the next morning.

At the Tuesday night game, my buddy was sitting in the 'Coors Clubhouse' seats right behind Home Plate and got my McGwire 1998 ASG Jersey signed (pics coming). Outside we got Schumacher, Carpenter, Eckstein, Rasmus, etc...

On Thursday, I caught up to Big Mac out back and got my beautiful (and HEAVY) Bronze Plaque signed (#005/500):

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AND I got LaRussa to sign his 1964 Topps RC (no pic currently) over the dugout.

During the weekend series versus San Diego, we got tons of SD autos, but Sunday morning was very special:

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YES! Tony Gwynn was with the team and signed for us!

And on Sunday (after auto chasing) I went to my local card shop - Jerry's Sports Cards in Thornton, CO (136th and I-25) and I won the Grand Prize drawing - a bunch of card packs and a Ubaldo Jimenez AUTO ball (inscribed No-Hitter) both Mounted Memories and MLB certified!!!

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(I almost forgot the weeks prior weren't bad either - Tommy LaSorda there on Father's Day, lots of Giants autos - including The Freak - and Jeff Francis gave me one of his Father's Day writbands!)

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On TOP of all of that, I had won tickets to the Lilith Fair show from a local radio station... the wife had decided she wasn't sure she wanted to go and we almost sold the tickets - but we didn't! We both left work early today and I had heard that Sarah McLachlan was doing a live radio interview so we drove by the stationa nd MET her and got our tickets signed before the show!!!
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And FINALLY, while at the show tonight a guy comes by and says he and his wife have to leave and gives us his tickets -4th row from the stage!!!

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And to top it all off, we got to watch Baldo pith in the ASG before the show and the NL WON!!!

Thanks for taking the time to read it all...

- Chris

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WOW XPRESS-You have done more in one week than i have done all summer.I wish i was your friend and lived by you as that would be so much fun to go autograph hunting like that.Me and my brother used to do all of that.But then he got married and i lost my autograph partner for the most part.And besides i am getting too old for that.But congratulations on all of that.I especially love the mcgwire thing.Did you ask it to be personalized or did he just do that? My nephew loves "the freak" and also pitches for his high school team.I want to get his autograph for my nephew so i just mailed a birthday card to tim.I sure hope he signed by mail.I wonder why he did not pitch tonight.And as far as the lilith fair.Thats great that you and your wife went there.They are coming here and i wanted to go but kelly clarkson dropped out of it.Also they moved from a outdoor concert to a indoor one.I bet it was cause of poor ticket sales.Sore is tough here for concerts to draw.We just had american idol and the jonus brothers cancel thier concerts here.Well anyway my friend.Thanks for sharing.