Awesome Sauce: Biggest Tigers Collection

Start your day on a positive note with Awesome Sauce at 6:10a M-F on The B-93 Morning Show with Mike and Aly

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Awesome WOA B ninety three Awesome Sauce, Start your day
on a positive note. Awesome Sauce six to ten weekday
mornings with the v ninety three Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Today, Awesome Sauce goes to.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Steve Nagingast and his wife Mary from Grand Rapids. They
are donating their twelve hundred autographed Tiger's baseballs to the
Grand Rapids Public Museum to showcase what is being called
the world's largest collection of Detroit Tiger's autographed baseballs beginning

(00:34):
April fourth, twenty twenty five. Wow Steve, whoa yes, Wow,
Wow Wow. The collection spans from nineteen oh one to
twenty twenty include signatures from baseball legends Ty Cobb, Alkline
Miguel Cabrera. Also features autographs from team owners, managers, and
other players from more than a century of Tiger's history.

(00:56):
Can you imagine the time that went in to sore saying, collecting,
getting these autographs, being present at these auctions, and in
real time doing some of this stuff. It also explores
the collection and sits in with authentic Tiger Stadium seats
used from seventy eight to two thousand and eight. Participate

(01:17):
in an interactive game where you can create your own team,
and nagin Gas became a Tigers fan at age ten
when he moved to Detroit in nineteen sixty one. He
didn't collect his first autographs until the nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
And since then he has been busy acquiring them at
a Woodland Mall signing event and while attending Detroit Tiger's
fantasy camps in Lakeland, Florida. Okay, so he's been all
over to get these, really, Kay, a little vacation here
and there, he stops at the spring training It's a
smart move.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah. He expanded his collection through national auctions, personal meetings
with players, networking with memorabilia dealers, and mailing baseballs to
former Major League Baseball players. I mean, this would be
such an incredible collection just when like you have someone over, like, hey,
check this out. Yeah, it would be such a casual
thing too. Here's the kitchen, here's the here's the bad

(02:08):
Oh have you seen my twelve.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hundred autograph baseball the largest collection in Detroit Tiger's history.
Through that room and the naj and guests are nice
enough to credit their four grandkids, Harrison and Eleanor h
Connor and Quinnlan with encouraging their donation, and now they
are putting it in the Grand Rapids Public Museum for
the rest of us to.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Enjoy n see. I love that so much.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think that's pretty cool, awesome Sauce six to ten
weekday mornings with the V ninety three Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Start your day on a positive note. On B ninety three,