Welcome
Welcome to Alex's Autographs!
Thank you for visiting. This site is based on the great hobby of autograph collecting. I personally enjoy collecting autographed rookie cards of players current and retired. On this site, you will find my updates, some hints and tips, pictures of my autographs, awesome links and so much more. My goal for this site is to help those in the autograph collecting community.
New Today
7/3/08:
Hong-Chih Kuo-signed 1/1 in 108 days c/o the Dodgers.
Monthly News: Updated as of June 15
-NEW! I have a new contest up, a new poll up and a new Autograph of the Month up. According to last month's poll:
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30% of you said the most amount of failures you've received in a day is 1.
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28% said two failures is the most.
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18% said zero.
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10% said three.
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8% said five.
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5% said four.
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3% said 10 or more.
According to last month's Autograph of the Month poll:
- 67% of you said Pat Hentgen was the right choice.
- 22% said it should have been Jason Johnson.
- 11% said it should have been Nick Theodorou.
Monthly Contest
Octavio Dotel
Just answer these questions correctly to have the chance to win:
1) Octavio Dotel made his major league debut with what team?
2) What is Octavio Dotel's career postseason won-loss record and ERA?
3) Octavio Dotel has a brother who played in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. What is his name?
Submit your answers and address to alexsautographs@yahoo.com.
Autograph of the Month
Month: June
Jesse Crain
It was the battle of the young pitchers this time around - the three candidates for Autograph of the Month were Jesse Litsch, Shaun Marcum and Jesse Crain. Not only did I receive all three of these successes on the same day, but they are all viable candidates for Autograph of the Month - that is, they all have good arguments.
Through July 5, Litsch is 8-4 with a 3.69 ERA so far this season. Marcum is 5-4 with a 2.65 ERA, and Crain has a 2.80 ERA in 34 relief appearances. It's a tough choice, but I'm going to go with Jesse Crain for this month's Autograph of the Month.
Not only is Crain doing very well this year, he has done well in years past as well - in 22 relief appearances for Minnesota in 2004, he had a 2.00 ERA. He went 12-5 with a 2.71 ERA in 75 relief appearances in 2005. He had a 3.52 ERA in 68 relief appearances in 2006, and although he hit a bump in the road in 2007 (his ERA was 5.51) he seems to have gotten himself back on track this year.
So far in his career, Crain has a 3.10 ERA in 217 career appearances. Unlike Litsch and Marcum, Crain has shown he can do very well in the major leagues before, not just in one year (Litsch, for example, went 7-9 with a 3.81 ERA last year and prior to this year Marcum had a career 4.29 ERA). Because of this, Crain is June's Autograph of the Month.
