September 11, 2008- The Braves were 65-82 and about to wrap up another rough season; however on this day, the Braves had just wrapped up a sweep vs. the Colorado Rockies 8-4. I hadn't taken my dad to a game in 2-3 years and we were sitting down the first base line about 2 sections over from the dugout; me and him were about to head toward the exit but during the last out I told him I was going to run over by the dugout to see if I could catch a ball or something, might as well try. As the players were shaking hands and headed back toward to clubhouse-- I saw Chipper reach in his back pocket.... I leaned over the dugout (trying to fight off everyone else) as much as I possibly could... one glove flew and 4 rows deep and the other was floating right towards my hand... I reached out and caught it... ripping away a couple other folks hands in the process. Most people wouldn't think it was too big of a deal- but after trying a million times I had finally caught one... I felt like I was in a dream or something... the one game used item I had always wanted, almost paid for many times... I had obtained myself. My feet didn't hit the ground for at least a week, the next season I got really lucky again and caught another one, same glove style-opposite hand. I was thinking how great is it that I caught the opposite hand and not the same one again? fate I suppose. This was the type of thing I wanted to display, not just keep out sitting on a dresser somewhere. As most of you know, Chipper is very difficult to obtain a signature from these days considering he's an old timer that's signed probably a million items. This was the type of thing I didn't really want him to sign at all unless it was neat and clean- not something he scribbled in a rush trying to sign as many items as he could during the rare chance he did sign...
