Who's your favorite Nats player's favorite autograph?

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Every day at Spring Training, the Nationals stop to sign autographs for fans who are watching pregame workouts and hoping to have a signature penned by their favorite players.

Watching this happen gave me flashbacks to several autograph memories, from a napkin penned by Hall of Famer Dave Cowens at a pizza shop to a University of North Carolina hat inked by Rick Fox and the late Eric Montross, to a notebook filled with signatures gathered at Braves Spring Training.

This got me wondering: If seeing these daily autograph signings at CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches sparked so many of my own memories, what do the Nationals consider their favorite autographs they have received?

RHP Jake Irvin: “I got an Adrian Peterson autograph when I was a little kid and he was with the Vikings. I went to a Vikings training camp and it was a big kids day. It’s a little more special now having gone to OU. … In Oklahoma, he was ‘All Day,’ so everybody at OU knows him as ‘AD’ or ‘All Day,’ and everyone in Minnesota just called him ‘Adrian’ or ‘AP’ -- nobody knew the ‘All Day’ thing. I was just a huge Vikings fan, so I knew that’s what they called him. From the back of a pack of little kids, I was like, ‘All Day!’ He pulled me out from the back of the crowd, he goes, ‘That little guy.’ He brought me up there and signed a football.”

C Riley Adams: “I got Blink-182’s autograph, so that’s as good as it gets. … Trevor [Williams] knew the manager of the opening band. We had an off-day the day before Blink-182 performed in D.C. The whole band came out to Nats Park and did BP on the field. Basically, it was a little trade. He was nice enough to get the jersey. … It’s a one of one. We got a Nats jersey made that said ‘Blink’ for the name and ‘182’ for the number, so it was about as custom as you could get.”

2B Luis García Jr.: “Robinson Canó. I met him in the Dominican Republic. He was my favorite player. He gave me three bats with his signature and a beautiful message.”

RHP Josiah Gray: “I just started a jersey collection, so I have Marcus Stroman, David Price, Josh Bell. Baseballs, I tried to get guys that are close to retirement or announced their retirement. I got a Zim [Ryan Zimmerman] baseball, I got Nelson Cruz, Alex Avila -- he caught my first win … I also have a cool Dwyane Wade-signed jersey in there as well.”

RHP Cole Henry: “I really don’t have any, but my family has some at our house. The coolest one that we have, I think, would be [a picture of] Elvis Presley. My grandmother was the biggest Elvis fan ever. He played in Auburn, Ala., and she went, and basically, I guess, just forced her way to get his autograph.”

RHP Zach Brzykcy: “In Little League, you go up and play in Cooperstown. There was a Hall of Fame ceremony, and it [included] Bob Gibson and Yogi Berra. … There was a little table at an event going on, and you just go up and say hi and introduce yourself. … I got a ball, I got a pin, a commemorative thing for them. It was so cool. My dad got a picture of them waving at us, and we have it framed up in our basement area. Meeting them was awesome.”

LHP Patrick Corbin: “Probably Andy Pettitte -- I grew up a Yankees fan, and with him being left-handed -- and then Mariano Rivera. … David Wright is another one that’s kind of cool. It was at the [2013] All-Star Game in New York. I got a bunch of jerseys and sent them in and they signed them for me. That was the only time I kind of really did that, and it was kind of cool.”

OF James Wood: “Tyler Wade, that’s really the only one [I have]. I can’t remember how old I was, but my dad took me down to Florida for Spring Training. It was when he was with the Yankees, I think even before he got called up. We just watched BP, all that. I think it was after the game, I got a signed ball.”