The Rest of 2008 Tristar Projections

#83 Darren Ford
#90 Josh Horton
#198 Mitch Einertson
#256 Josh Vitters
#320 Salvador Sanchez
#399 Desomd Jennings

Darren Ford- Unlike the last card of Darren that I got signed at a Sacramento River Cats game, this one was pulled out of a pack. I actually bought the pack at the Kauffman Stadium gift shop for eight bucks just because it also came with an Eric Hosmer card. It worked out well as I eventually got the Hosmer card signed and I got an auto in the pack.

Josh Horton- I love the way this card looks. Josh's loopy blue signature just looks like it was made for this card. It is perfect. It definitely came out a lot better than the last card of him I posted when I had him sign in black. This card was signed at a Tulsa Drillers game in 2010 while he was playing for Midland.

Mitch Einertson- Mitch played for the Wingnuts for parts of two seasons and I was able to get this card signed at one of their games in 2012.

Josh Vitters- I got this card signed in Hoover, Alabama in 2010 while Josh was playing for the visiting Tennessee Smokies.

Salvador Sanchez- Sal signed this card for me the day after I got Vitters to sign. This time, though, it was in Birmingham at historic Rickwood Field for the 100th anniversary of the ballpark.

Desmond Jennings- I got Desmond to sign at the 2009 Futures Game in St. Louis.

1992 Skybox AAA, Ever Magallanes

#285 Ever Magallanes

I got this card signed last summer at a Rancho Cucamonga Quakes game. Ever was the Quakes manager. I wasn't able to spot him before the game, but I happened to run into his roommate and he pointed him out to me. He no longer had the mustache and had a shaved head, too. I waited around a little bit after the game and got this card signed while he was headed to the clubhouse. He would have signed more than this card if I would have had any since he started to sign the card of his hitting coach before I got him to stop. He chuckled about it, said something in Spanish to his hitting coach and then took off. I waited about ten more minutes to get Francisco Matos (the hitting coach) to sign. He was busy filling out charts, so I left with a defaced minor league card. Several months later, I found another card of Ever that I had in the 1991 Bowman set.

Ever only got a brief cup of coffee in the bigs. He got into three games in 1991 for the Indians and went 0-2 with a walk. He was drafted in 1987, but by 1989, he was in AAA. He played in AAA almost exclusively until 1994. Then he was out of baseball until 2004, when he played in 16 games with the AAA Tuscon Sidewinders at the age of 38.

Today, the Vancouver Canadians are a class A short season team. This is the last minor league card that I will have on here for at least a month or two. At least the posed shot on here is better than yesterday's card.