Winter Warm Up 2011–Day 1 (Morning)

My dad took me to the Cardinals Winter Warm Up again this year. It is the fourth year in a row that I have gone. I got lots of cool autographs of new and old players. I even got three Rookies of The Year autographs. I got five pay autographs and the rest were free players. I got 33 players altogether.
We paid for Mike Matheny, Kyle Loshe, and The Secret Weapon. The rest of the players were free. Mike Matheny was very nice. We talked about how we both knew the same person – a teacher at the school where my mom teaches.

Topps Million Traded: 2004 Mike Matheny

Wow. I posted our first trade offer and BOOM, an hour later someone accepted. Its nice to have Matheny back in the Cardinals fold as a special instructor... hopefully his role will expand as his kids get older and we'll see more of him at Busch in the future.