my ABSOLUTE best in person success ever......MANNY RAMIREZ!!!!

[chrisborene]

i have been looking forward to getting this one since i bought tickets lastt week, so i traveled to lake elsinore,ca today, to watch manny ramirez's rehab stint with the inland empire 66ers vs the l.e. storm. i got there early enough to watch ramirez arrive, when he did he didn't sign anything going in at 1st, saying he would sign inside. well he was a man of his word after he took batting practice , changed into his game uniform, jogged a few laps, i finally after 6 months got my manny ramirez authentic jersey autographed, he was a good signer, signing for about 10 minutes for apprx 60+ people. it was a mad house trying to get his auto,(got a good cut on my leg) but well worth it, i think the only downfall of him signing besides the chaos with all the people was that he signed with just one black sharpie the whole time, looks good on my jersey , but i feel bad for the people who had baseballs.

i also have tickets for tuesday's game in san bernadino, and since it's a early one i think i may have some more success. my mother left the game right after his 3rd ab, and said he was signing on the way out of the game as well. so i may have 2 chances to get him tuesday before the game and after his last ab, since i know where players exit, ill go there after his last ab. good thing i got plenty of other items to possibly sign.

i will remember this day for a while, my greatest in person success which i didn't have to pay for an auto, yes!!!

---chrisborene

[wmhc28413]

that is a sweet pick up!!!!! was he only signing one item per person????

congrats!!!!!!

[NyFanCam01]

congrats!!!

[Carnage38]

thats cool but how bad of a graph did you get? i got him back when he was on the indians and his sig was TERRIBLE then. all i got was MRZ all mixed in 1.

[tboculosis]

Congrats! It's awesome that you got Manny's auto IP!

[tikitomoka]

nice! i wondered if you got him since i heard on espn this morning that he took time to talk to fans

[Oxxon]

Great story, congrats.

[derk2428]

could you post some photos?

[chrisborene]

hopefully i can answer everybody's ?'s that have been posted in response. it appears that he was signing 1 per person so everybody could try to get something . on the quality of his signature it looks pretty much what like ive seen on ebay like you described the "mrz" all bunched together. when he first started signing he appeared to be talking to the first few people a tad. i have to buy a cord to hook my camera to my laptop, i should have got this piece A long time ago, my wife said the cord ahould be cheap so if i can get time ill try to get one this week and post the picture

---chrisborene

[sigman101]

Congrats on getting Manny!!!