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What a day. <3 Biggio's ceremony was wonderful and his son brought me to tears with his wonderful words on his father. I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see Bagwell again and to watch the #7 be unveiled along side the other retired numbers. And to top it off we won the game!
Even more exciting, I got some autographs! I didn't actually expect anyone to come up to the fence because of the ceremony but I gave it a shot anyways.
Here Sampson autographed his sketch from the game against the Reds on 07/30/08. He seemed confused when I pointed to the (admittedly) small sketch and said "That's you!" but obliged me in signing it anyways. :)
Here's Sampson shortly after having signed.
Valverde was also nice enough to come by and I had him sign a blank page. I don't really have any sketches of him as he's a closer so I a) can't be sure he'll be in a game and b) don't get much time or many chances to draw him. He did play this game however I had decided not to sketch today's game over his autograph. I'm thinking his page will be saved for more autographs that have no sketches to accompany them. It'd be nice to have a collection of the team in addition to individual sketches where I can get them.
