Wallet Card In Depth: Untradeable 1982 Topps Traded Cal Ripken
Baseball cards of the sport’s least controversial figure can sure generate a lot of arguments. Maybe that’s why you can never find someone willing to trade away this card.
Yankee Stadium: D Train or Cab?
I had nothing to write about Senators’ pitcher Don Johnson. Then I listened to a recorded interview he gave, and now I can’t decide if I am writing about a pawned World Series ring, sleeping in a teepee, Sugar Ray Robinson’s pink Cadillac, Fidel Castro, or surviving taking a bullet.
Leaf Nicknames: Tiburon Terror
Happy Halloween! What a perfect time to explore a guy whose nickname makes him sound like a serial killer laying in wait on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Tired Man With A Wallet Card
I carry a wallet card and am dead tired. Saul Rogovin was also exhaustedly carrying a wallet card when he wasn’t pitching for the Chicago White Sox.
A Passing Resemblance
Barney McCoskey looks a lot like Ray Kroc on the front of his 1952 Topps baseball card. Reading the stats on the back, I can’t help but think he bears a closer resemblance to a certain current ballplayer.
.805 and a Car in Every Driveway
What do you need hand over to convince a catcher batting .805 to join your team?
Dead Men DO Tell Tales
I drove seven hours into West Virginia for the express purpose of killing a man who had famously escaped death. Somehow, it ends up perfectly matching up with my ’52 Topps Gene Bearden baseball card.
You Lost WHAT?
It’s not an adventure unless something goes wrong. With all due respect to whoever said that, they didn’t have a Babe Ruth card at stake.