An intersection of two of my passions: baseball cards and the Baltimore Orioles. Updated daily? Let's hope. Each day I'll post a scan of one of my Orioles cards and allow my thoughts on said card to pour out. It might be childhood memories, an anecdote from the player's career, or musings on the aesthetics of the card. (Larry Sheets' mustache is fair game.) Ideally, this blog will be a companion piece to my Orioles Uniform Number site, NumerOlogy.
Oh, Sidney Ponson. Your 17th season in professional baseball promises to be the most pointless and perversely entertaining of them all. With spring training in full swing, you've finally latched on to another club. So which franchise was ensnared by...
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I went and found an O'Malley for you. Tom O'Malley was a star in the minor leagues, struggled in his various trials in the majors, and was an absolute masher in Japan. To my knowledge, he never played in Ireland.
I hope...
There are a lot of things that I would do if I were independently wealthy and had all of the free time in the world. For one, I would play a lot more Strat-O-Matic baseball.
If you’re reading this blog, there’s a fair chance that you know what...
Look out, action-style Jimmy Haynes! The Big Giant Head of Pointillist Jimmy Haynes has placed your left forearm in his mouth and is getting ready to devour it mercilessly! Aiiiiyyyeeeeeee!
If I could go back in time, I would give Pinnacle two pieces...
If they did Senior Superlatives at Eastern Michigan University, I have a good hunch that Glenn Gulliver would have been a shoo-in for "Most Likely to Be a Character in a Charles Dickens Novel". Pip pip!