As many of you may or may not know, the Dodgers celebrate 50 years in LA this year. As such, they have quite a few meet n' greets planned for the year. Luckily I was able to attend one of them in the LA Collectors Expo '08 this last weekend, and the highlight was the chance to meet one of my childhood heroes, Steve Garvey.

The Garv was the honest to god nicest of all the guys I met this weekend. I told him that i grew up actually watching him as a
Padre (as we had season seats when i was a kid along 1b about 3 rows back). When i told him that he had a huge grin -- He then wrote on my Jersey a whole mess of inscriptions, and some of them are from his Padre years! (NLCS MVP 1984, etc). You were supposed to pay extra to get 1 inscription, but he really signed all over the jersey -- for free nonetheless! What a great guy.

The Loot.
I ended up getting my Garvey jersey signed, a 8x10 of Don Newcomb signed, a signed 8x10 of Saito, a signed Billingsly, Kent, Martin, Loney, and Furcal ball as well as Orel Hershiser, Kirk gibson, and Rick Dempsey autographs on my Dodger Stadium Seatback. I had to remove the "Record Setting Infield" Plaque (it was just a sticker) but I think It’s worth it to make that seatback just full of signatures.

Yes, i'm ready for baseball season.