Tag: Sports

Warning! 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…

Why 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.”

When at a sporting event, do you spend more time watching the video on the scoreboard or the field? It’s tempting to watch the big screen, because it’s able to zoom in on the action better. But then, what’s the…

Topps 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…

1985 $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…

Do 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…

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…

Going 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…

Simplicity. 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…

Well-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…

Maybe 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…

I 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…

Imagine your country celebrating their Independence day while the Olympics are happening. And then what if a country won a gold medal on their Independence day and had their flag raised with their national anthem playing? Here’s how the countries…

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…

(photo from bikesoup) Let’s say a country had a tradition during the Olympics where all their citizens wore gold medals to support their Olympic athletes. People wear baseball caps and tshirts of their favorite teams. Everyone should wear a gold…

I’m going to miss the Olympics when they are over. There should be a two-week competition in something happening all the time. And there should be a channel dedicated to it all the time. Ideas: Two weeks of art competition Two…

Imagine 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…

1,637 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:…

For 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)

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…

With 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…

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…

Did 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…

If 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…

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…

If I was famous I would sign my name with crazy shapes. Squares. Triangles. I’d draw borders around the card. In fact, at stores I’m gonna start doing crazy things with my signature. I was doing a circle around my…

Ten years ago on 02/02/02 I started a new comic strip, Groundhog Croquet. It lasted a whole two strips. Check ’em out at spudart.org/groundhog

I bought my niece all the plush mascots keychains from the 2010 Winter Olympics. To make mailing stuffing to keep them from jostling around, I made 11×17 xerox enlargements of each figure. A couple extra copies were made to hang…

This 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…

Walking 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.

View the entire photo on Erik’s blog My twin brother posted about Chad Ochocinco’s aquarium bed and I had so many questions for him, I’m going to make my questions into a blog post. Please please, read my brother’s post.…