Sports & Baseball (intersection of tags)
313 Sports posts • 172 Baseball posts • 170 in common
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- What is this mysterious yellow disc?Giant yellow tennis ball is attacking Wrigley Field! What would that yellow sphere be? Ideas are explored on my baseball blog, Supernova at Wrigley Field captured in 1958 Topps baseball card. It’s a fun interdisciplinary blog post covering baseball, world…
- The truth behind the Wrigley Field ads on the Jumbotron(See the mockups at unlikelymoose.com) The Chicago Cubs and the Rickets released a photo mockup of how Wrigley Field will look like with the Jumbotron and additional ads. However, they didn’t put real ads in their mockup. They put cute…
- Two major mistakes AJ Pierzynski made in his Chicago Tribune ad for White Sox fans8-year former White Sox player A.J. Pierzynski is a class act to run a full-page ad for local fans in the Chicago Tribune at the end of 2012. I tip my hat to him. But I also give AJ two…
- Backs of famous baseball cardsCan you guess what famous baseball card this is? [Answer]. It would be fun to take the 45 most iconic baseball cards of all time and show just the backs of the cards. You’ll enjoy more posts about baseball cards:…
- Critique of Dick Perez’s Grover Alexander paintingDick Perez. The official Baseball Hall of Fame artist of the 80s and 90s. I grew up collecting the Donruss cards featuring his “Diamond King” paintings with crazy backgrounds. I did my fair share of baseball portraits in grade school…
- The crazy backgrounds of Donruss Diamond KingsWarning! Crazy backgrounds! All these paintings were done in the 80s and early 90s by the official Baseball Hall of Fame artist, Dick Perez. One has to wonder what was going through Dick’s mind when he created these backgrounds. He…
- 1960 Topps folded in halfWhy would I be so excited to see a baseball card folded in half? Find out on my baseball blog: “Fold a baseball card to create excitement.”
- $500 for one pack of baseball cardsTopps is selling packs of eight cards for $500. That’s right. $500 for one pack of baseball cards. Here is my email to Topps: Dear Topps, your Five Star cards will scare many people away from collecting any cards. This…
- How much Topps paid Shawon Dunston every year1985 $250 1986 $250 1987 $575 1988 $500 1989 $500 1990 $500 (+ $75 bonus) 1991 $500 (+ $75 bonus) 1992 $500 (+ $75 bonus) 1993 $500 (+ $75 bonus) 1994 $500 (+ $75 bonus) Why did he get paid…
- Questions for Topps and Beckett MediaDo you think the #1 trading card manufacturer (topps) and the official trading card pricing experts (Beckett Media) would respond to you if you had questions for them? I tweeted a different question every day for nine days to these…
- Baseball teams that finished in second place in the most consecutive seasons Imagine your favorite MLB team finishing in second place. Not too bad. You might even get a wild card chance. Now imagine if your team finishes in second place the next year. Kinda frustrating that you get so close, but…
- White Sox fans are quiet in the upper deckGoing to a White Sox night game with one week left in the season, and the Sox 1.5 games from first place is an interesting experience. The fans were attentive to the game, but quiet. When they introduced a US…
- How baseball card magazines of my youth inspired my design careerSimplicity. Something covers of magazines today often lack. Multiple headlines cry for your attention alongside a primary photo. Editors hope one of the headlines will grab your attention while standing in line. You don’t have to pick up the magazine…
- Baseball cards that are well-worn should sell for more than mint cardsWell-worn baseball cards are a beauty to behold. Just like old furniture, you want the worn-look to be kept. The agedness is a value. There’s a certain art to getting a baseball card to be aged nicely. Why aren’t worn…
- Professional sports salaries influence our hurt economyMaybe part of America’s economic problems is related to the rising salaries of professional sports players. Their salaries are completely wacked. Thus high-level execs of companies feel like they should be making lots of money too. Thus the average worker…
- Least Valuable Player for every yearI want to make a baseball card collection of every season’s Least Valuable Player. This list comes from High Heat Stats Lowest Non-Pitcher WAR (Baseball-Reference Version) By Season: 2011 Adam Dunn -3.0 2010 Nate McLouth -2.8 2009 Yuniesky Betancourt -2.4…
- The best nine cards for this player I’d like to see a blog where every post features the ten best baseball cards of a single player. Or maybe nine, so the blog can show them as a grid of 3×3. Baseball card pages also show nine cards…
- Every baseball card should have its own QR codeImagine displaying your entire physical baseball card collection online. But how? Manually searching and typing each baseball card? Too much work. Scanning in each baseball card? That’s even more work! Googling each card to find an image? There needs to…
- Players picked for just one All-Star Game in his career1,637 players have appeared in the MLB All-Star Game. 680 players were picked for just one game. Here’s some highlights: Kiki Cuyler: 1934 Randy Hundley: 1969 Lou Piniella: 1972 Manny Mota: 1973 Gary Matthews: 1979 Don Baylor: 1979 Steve Stone:…
- Autographed Rifleman 1991 Score cardsFor a few months i’ve had an RSS feed for ebay auctions of rifleman autograph and rifleman signature, and i’ve had no results come from it. (the 1990 score rifleman cards)
- 2012 Homerun Derby Picks My predictions for the 2012 Homerun Derby: FIRST ROUND (8 players) 5 Carlos Gonzalez 5 Carlos Beltran 5 Prince Fielder 4 Robinson Cano 3 Joey Bautista 3 Mark Trumbo 3 Matt Kemp 2 Andrew McCutchen SECOND ROUND (4 players) 12…
- Fantasy league for retired baseball playersWith Kerry Wood retiring in the middle of the season, he won’t have any more stats for fantasy baseball leagues. But what if there was some sort of retirement league? Stats could be kept on: — Appearances at the ballpark…
- Why do Wrigleyville residents complain about living near Wrigley Field?It bothers me so immensely when Wrigleyville residents complain about “how hard” it is to get home on game days. Um. Wrigley Field was here WAYYY long before any of its residents. 100% of the people who live in Wrigleyville…
- Luis Salazar played against the Cubs in the 1984 playoffsDid you know the great third baseman Luis Salazar of the 1989-1992 Chicago Cubs also played for the 1984 Padres? The despised 1984 Padres that beat the beloved Cubs in the 1984 playoffs. Luis Salazar even played three games in…
- Best baseball card shop onlineIf you want to buy a bunch of baseball cards from one seller online, where do you go? Checkoutmycards.com has lots of great sellers of cards. But you probably don’t want to pay shipping from multiple sellers. You want one…
- All perfect reviews for Rickey Henderson’s autobiography Base stealers in baseball are the best. Sports highlights should show ballplayers stealing bases instead of hitting home runs. The greatest base-stealer of all time, Rickey Henderson has his own autobiography from 1993, “Off Base: Confessions of a Thief.” Given…
- Why newspaper photos are better than baseball cardsThis is a cool photo of Henry Blanco. It’s too bad the design of the card is covering up an essential part of the photo, home plate. It makes you wonder what the photographer thinks of this card. 2011 Topps…
- Autograph AestheticsWalking around the museum trying to find artworks to match the autographs, the art on the walls felt like they belonged in a cardboard box in my apartment.
- Andre Dawson, National Gummi Worm Appreciation DayCan you yell at a Hall of Famer from the upper deck and have him wave back at you? How much info can you fit onto a scorecard? Do worms celebrate National Gummi Worm Appreciation Day? What does the world’s…
- MLB baseball stadiums with wifi internet accessHere’s a comprehensive a list of ballparks that have wifi. If you have any updates, please let me know in the comments below. MLB baseball stadiums with wifi: Atlanta Braves (Turner Field) — Free Arizona Diamondbacks (Chase Field) — Free…
- Talk about “Beat the Streak” 2011General link for: Beat the Streak on MLB Sign-up link to join: the Amazing League 2011 Let this blog post be the place where people talk about their 2011 streaks in MLB Beat the Streak. You know what? Since 2004,…
