What’s It Good For? Two I used this Doug Dascenzo card to heed my sons’ request to crush a spider a few weeks ago. I kept him on my desk for a while because it seemed like something I might b...
Kingdom Come Four Tonight instead of watching the State of the Union address I looked for my father and for Jerry Morales’s basket catch. First I skimmed some of the emails my father sent me, e...
What can last? Even stars blink out. Everybody knows this. But what about future stars? How do they come to be? I was wondering about this today, and so I learned that stars form in nebulas. I le...
California Sun III. I didn’t mean to mislead anyone who’s read this far. Just to be clear: My life didn’t change, or at least not in the way I’d believed it might as the golden rays strea...
NLCS preview Predictions are asinine. This probably holds true for everything, but it’s particularly applicable to baseball, in which even the best teams lose forty percent of the time. The nat...
https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/17/rick-reuschel-and-ron-hodges/
NLDS Preview, part one Style is a mode of conflict. It doesn’t seem that way to most individuals, I don’t think, but whenever style choices are made—clothing, hairstyle, behavior—they are...
https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/09/rick-reuschel-and-al-hrabosky/
Here is my preview of the 2015 National League Wild Card game: There is no ball. No ball thrown, no ball struck. If these two randomly chosen cardboard still lifes are any guide, that’s what at...
https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/07/rick-reuschel-and-bob-robertson/
Immortality 4. What do you do when life reveals itself as the opposite of immortality? The dream of living forever falls away and you’re left in the mortal position shown here. A former number ...
According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview Chicago Cubs I’ve lived in Chicago for seven years now, and it feels like nothing, like I just got here. Conversely, the roughly equvalent sp...
What could possibly be better than to be a starting centerfielder for a major league team? And yet, Jerry Martin, who held just such a position for the Chicago Cubs at the time of this 1980 card,...