Every year the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) votes on admission to the Hall of Fame. If a player is named on 75% of the ballots, he’s in. On my imaginary Hall of Fame Ballot, Barry Larkin, long time shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds, comes up a winner. We’ll
What’s Wrong With This Card Solved – Hanley Ramirez
Several readers submitted partially correct answers in connection with this card, identifying the incorrect number 22 on Hanley Remirez’ jersey. Of course his correct jersey number is 2. However, the question posed in the post five weeks ago asked “can you identify what’s wrong with the card and explain the
Remembering Harmon Killebrew
Harmon Killebrew, the Hall of Famer who was a feared slugger on the field and a gracious, kind-hearted gentleman off it, died this year on May 17th. He was 74 years old. A Personal Favorite. I was always a Harmon Killebrew fan. He was one of my heroes. My family members
Remembering Duke Snider
Duke Snider, the Hall of Famer, powerful slugger and smooth center fielder for the great Brooklyn Dodger teams of the 1950’s, died this year on February 27th. He was 84 years old. Outstanding From The Start. Snider was signed to a baseball contact in 1944, shortly after graduating from Compton
Remembering Paul Splittorff
Paul Splittorff, the tall, durable and crafty left hander who was a pitching mainstay for several Kansas City Royals championship teams from the mid 1970’s to the early 1980’s, died this year on May 25th. He was 64 years old. A Royal All The Way. Splittorff joined the team’s starting
Remembering Jim Northrup
Jim Northrup, one of the heroes of the 1968 World Series Champion Detroit Tigers and a versatile team mainstay for eleven seasons, died this year on June 8th. He was 71 years old. On The Way Up. A Michigan native, Jim Northrup was proficient in several sports. In addition to
Remembering Bob Forsch
Bob Forsch, a tall right-handed pitcher who spent sixteen years in the major leagues, mostly with the St. Louis Cardinals, died suddenly this year on November 3rd at the age of 61. St. Louis Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. summed up the feelings for the entire Cardinals community at the time when
Finding A Magical Postcard
I’ve been a baseball fan and a postcard collector for most of my life, and it’s fun when these two interests come together as they did a few months ago at a postcard show I attended at San Francisco’s Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. I was leafing through a group
Enjoying The Off Season
The Hot Stove League is an expression that has its origins in the period of time when Baseball was THE undisputed King of sports in America. During the off-season, fans would escape winter’s chill by gathering around a hot stove, staying warm and talking about their team, its off-season moves
What’s Wrong With This Card – Hanley Ramirez
The good people at Topps have been issuing cards with errors in them for a very long time. Below is an example of their new spin on these conversation starters. Rather than make the mistakes themselves, they simply catch others doing so and present them to a curious public. Here
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