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Oddballs! : Deadball Era Nickname Quiz Part I
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The weird, strange, and odd in baseball history. Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Deadball Era Nickname Quiz Part I. I covered the 1901 Tigers and some of the wacky nicknames on the team in previous post,. But their were plenty of others across the major leagues at the time. Each team had a Doc or a Kid or Deacon or Chief but I love the unique monikers that some players had. See if you can match the half dozen players below with their well known nickname. 1) Bones A) Tully Hartsel. 2) Cupid B) William Ely.
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1988 Topps: 635th Place - James Steels
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Ranking and counting down all 792 baseball cards, from worst to best, in a mostly objective manner. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. 635th Place - James Steels. James Steels" sounds like the perfect secret identity for a comic book hero. A last name of "Steals" would have been even better since he twice swiped 35 bases in a season in the minor leagues. Is a good indicator of why. I couldn't find much on Steels on the interwebs.hmm, maybe he is a super hero! Player of the year in 1984. I found a couple.
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Oddballs! : Tommy Lasorda's 1954 Topps Rookie Card
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The weird, strange, and odd in baseball history. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Tommy Lasorda's 1954 Topps Rookie Card. Here is a look at longtime Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda's one and only Topps card as a player. While researching Lasorda for my 1983 Topps blog. Post I ran across this card. I didn't know much about Lasorda's playing career. Nothing like being called a "little guy" on the back of your baseball card. Topps lists him here at 5'10" but he's listed on his manager cards at 5'9". Subscribe to: ...
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Oddballs! : Shaved What?!?!
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The weird, strange, and odd in baseball history. Saturday, February 23, 2013. Slang changes through the years and baseball is no different as words and phrases work their way in and out of fashion. I recently was browsing through an issue of The Sporting News from 4/4/1946 when an article about a bulletin issued to Yankee ballplayers heading north with the team. TSN writer Dan Daniel summed up the message that came from GM Larry McPhail and manager Joe McCarthy as such:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Oddballs! : Baseball Cards in Song Lyrics
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The weird, strange, and odd in baseball history. Thursday, March 21, 2013. Baseball Cards in Song Lyrics. The title says it all. Can you think of any songs with baseball cards in the lyrics? Ageless rock band Chicago. References the cardboard collectibles in their 1975 single "Old Days". According to the Wikipedia page. The song was written by James Pankow. For the band and sung by Peter Cetera. Quite interestingly, Cetera despised singing it because of the reference to the Howdy Doody show which he hated.
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1988 Topps: August 2014
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Ranking and counting down all 792 baseball cards, from worst to best, in a mostly objective manner. Sunday, August 24, 2014. 665th Place - Calvin Schiraldi. My apologies to any Sox fans who just threw something at their computer screen. Rightly or wrongly, Schiraldi is a dirty word for many in New England. He was a key culprit in the 1986 World Series collapse. Despite flashes of brilliance. Early in his career, Schiraldi would retire by the age of 29. Saturday, August 23, 2014. 666th Place - Greg Booker.
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1988 Topps: 636th Place - Robbie Wine
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Ranking and counting down all 792 baseball cards, from worst to best, in a mostly objective manner. Monday, August 3, 2015. 636th Place - Robbie Wine. I replied that I was here, and she asked if I went by Robert or a nickname of that. I don't know why, but I said, "Rob." I guess now that I was in a new city and a big-time third grader, I figured it was time to go with a more mature iteration. Grandma Bonnie was kind of crazy. Robbie Wine is the son of former big leaguer Bobby Wine. I'll throw a "gratuito...
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Oddballs! : Crowning the King of the Pinch Runners
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The weird, strange, and odd in baseball history. Friday, February 8, 2013. Crowning the King of the Pinch Runners. Pinch runners can come in several forms: young speed burners, warm bodies taking the spot of a creaky kneed veteran or weak hitting defensive subs who are faster than the starter at their position. At Baseball Prospectus. Among other cool stuff, his data showed the lumbering Willie McCovey was pinch run for 332 times. A year later Steve Treder wrote in The Hardball Times. Was the first pinch...
