Donruss done Bobby Grich wrong in 1986! You can’t convince us that their layout and design department didn’t notice this unfortunate placement of the California Angels logo on the 6-time All-Star and 4-time Gold Glove winner’s card. What they had against one of the finest all around second basement of the 1970s and 80s we will never know. But it brings up […]
Were there ever players you knew about as a kid that you sort of assumed were big stars and were shocked to find out they weren’t? For us, Ozzie Virgil Sr. fit that bill. We’d seen him on the 1985 Topps father/son card with Ozzie Jr., who at the time wasn’t a half bad power hitting catcher for the Philadelphia […]
The guy known as The Most Cordial Man in Baseball turns 79 today – none other than Reggie Jackson. And while you may disagree with our character assessment, it’s impossible to deny that Jackson was a force during his playing days. With huge home runs, a pedestrian lifetime .262 batting average and tons of RBIs and […]
The winningest pitcher of the 1980s is none other than Detroit Tigers ace Jack Morris. Between 1980 and 1989, Morris (who celebrates his 70th birthday today) went 162-119 with 1,629 strikeouts and a 3.66 ERA. Morris was no doubt a fine pitcher, but numbers like these can be a bit deceptive. Just because Morris won the most games […]
If you grew up in Cleveland or Northeast Ohio in the 1980s and 90s, the story of Len Barker‘s perfect game thrown on May 15, 1981, is the stuff of myth and legend. Honestly, we didn’t have much to cheer about sports-wise until the mid-1990s, so it’s no wonder the Barker game captivated us more than it should […]
On May 13, 1993, George Brett achieved the exceedingly rare mark of 3,000 hits and 300 HRs when he went long against Cleveland, joining Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Mays and Al Kaline as the only players who had reached that mark at the time. To this day, only Brett, Aaron, Musial, Mays and Miguel […]
Here’s a controversial discussion topic. Bo Jackson is still loved and revered not for what he did on the field as a pro but BECAUSE he’s Bo Jackson. No doubt he was a superb athlete with incredible talent for everything he did. But Jackson’s Major League and NFL careers were so short that we never got to […]
We fondly remember Tony Gwynn, who would have turned 65 today. Regardless of what anyone says, we believe Gwynn was the greatest pure hitter of his generation – more so than Boggs, Mattingly, Puckett or Brett. In a 20 year career, Gwynn never batted below .309 in any full season, even as he was plagued by […]
Let’s talk about what we call “decoy cards.” These are baseball cards that you’d come across in a wax pack or while sorting and think you’ve got a big star, only to glance at the name and realize it’s kind of a dud that RESEMBLES a star. The 1979 Topps Don Money card is a […]
Some records are made to never be broken. Rickey Henderson picked up his 1000th stolen base on May 1, 1992, exactly a year to the day after he broke Lou Brock’s record of 938 swipes.
