Kingdom Come Two “Will the earth last forever?” My older son asked this a few days ago. He’s seven, the same age I was when I first held this 1975 card. “Yes,” I said. It was near bedti...
The Human Rain Delay was first captured in cardboard in this 1975 Topps offering. He’s not mentioned as such anywhere on the card. I’m guessing this nickname wasn’t yet in existence but rat...
ALCS Preview This one is pretty simple. The two cards here, representing the American League teams poised to vie for a spot in the World Series, both feature players who got one chance to play at...
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ALDS preview, part one So the playoffs begin today for the Blue Jays and Rangers. Beginnings are often romanticized as capacious fountains of possibility, but in actuality beginnings are messy, f...
https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/08/jim-mason-and-len-barker/
Immortality 5. The greatest sages from ancient times Have not shown us life immortal. What is born must die . . . -Han Shan The Chinese poet Han Shan lived over a thousand years ago. No one knows...
All right, I’m up, showered, fed; the kid is asleep, the dishes are all clean, and I’ve got a half hour to write before I have to climb on my bicycle and pedal to the bus stop and ride to wor...
Just under a month ago, Steve Foucault peered in for a sign. Now he is coming set. He’s in a different uniform—the away ensemble—and it seems as if his hair may be longer. He’s still work...
I studied poetry in college. That was my primary focus. I also played a lot of pickup basketball, wrote fiction fragments and long-winded essays, got a combined “anthropology/sociology” minor...
According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview Texas Rangers The Texas Rangers won the American League pennant last year, and a rational prediction of their chances this year would have to ta...
After a bit of a return to my normal life as a couch-bound shut-in, I’ll soon be leaving my house again to try to use my corporeal presence and astonishing ability to sign my own name to polite...