Montreal Expos – Cardboard Gods

For a while now, I’ve been having trouble writing. It’s as if something has attached itself to my face, my ears, my eyes, my mouth. Can’t see so well, or hear, or speak. I fantasize about s...

https://cardboardgods.net/2018/11/13/randy-johnson/

Every once in a while Nelson Santovenia shows up somewhere unusual. A few years ago, he appeared inside my guitar. And here he is now in my garbage. Why, you may ask, is there a baseball card in...

https://cardboardgods.net/2018/01/14/nelson-santovenia/

Immortality 3. We’re all dreaming. Some dream with numbers, others with stories, others still with the belief in some kind of unassailable purity that never existed. I dream with whatever joys ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/01/12/tim-raines/

For most of my life, when baseball cards came to me, I sorted them into teams. The majority of my baseball cards from my childhood are sorted by teams right now, each team wrapped in a rubber ban...

https://cardboardgods.net/2013/03/05/the-tao-of-expo/

How Strange the Design One The few 1974 cards I own have aged more gently than my cards from later years. I wonder why. Is this difference a result of a change in the materials and processes b...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/01/31/mike-torrez-2/

The Cardboard Gods Ass Backwards ABCs of Parenting U Is for Unser 1. One Christmas when I was a kid, my grandmother got me a book called Juggling for the Complete Klutz. I was not then or now pro...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/12/06/del-unser/

When I was younger I assumed that human history was like a ladder, leading upward. But the whole span of it from cave paintings to internet porn is an illusion, at least when you consider the tem...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/07/22/scott-sanderson/

According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview Washington Nationals By the time Woodie Fryman joined the Expos for the first time, he’d been around a while and was no longer a young man. Ha...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/03/03/woodie-fryman-2/

Here is a slugger miraculously, awe-inspiringly oblivious. He is at the end of the road, clad in the uniform of a team he just joined and will within a matter of days be released from. His surrou...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/01/04/jose-canseco/

In 1970, at the age of seventeen, Don DeMola won the Carl Yastrzemski award, given to the best high school baseball player in Suffolk County, Long Island. The Yankees drafted him and shipped him ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2010/08/03/don-demola/