Stuff about Me

 

Name: Simon McCain Thompson

Home: Portland, Maine

Age: 13

Grade: 7th

Occupation: Employee of Don’s Baseball Card Center, the largest sportscard shop in Maine

School: King Middle School in Portland, Maine

Amount of baseball cards: 26,000; give or take about 1,000

Amount of autographs total (including duplicates): Around 1,600

Age I started collecting baseball cards: 8

Age I started collecting autographs: Summer of 2000

Age I started collecting autographs through-the-mail/first success: November of 2002/Carl Erskine

 

Contact information

Email address: smt121591@hotmail.com

Website: http://www.thompsonworks.com/simonsautos/

AIM Screen name: pissedattheo (note: this is supposed to read: Pissed at Theo. I made this screen name after Theo Epstein, the Boston Red Sox general manager, traded my then favorite player Nomar Garciaparra to the Cubs. I’m not pissed at him anymore.)

Star Archive member name: RedSoxFan91

 

Times on television

February of 2003: WCSH Newscenter 6 Sports Center came to my house and interviewed me about my collection

November of 2003: WGME News 13 interviewed me at my orthodontist’s when I participated in a candy buy-back event

 

Times in print

  • Casco Bay Weekly, May 2003: I was interviewed after I caught a foul ball at a Portland Sea Dogs game, and segments of the interview along with a photo of me were printed in this edition
  • Tuff Stuff, February 2004: I have my website listed on page #119
  • Baseball Digest, April 2004: I have a letter printed in this edition on page #14
  • Beckett Baseball, November 2004: I am mentioned on page #47
  • Sports Illustrated for Kids, January 2005: I have a letter printed on page #4
  • Sports Illustrated for Kids, April 2005: I have a “comic card” on page #22
  • Baseball Digest, May 2005: I have a letter printed on page #6

 

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