Atlanta Braves – Cardboard Gods

Darrel Chaney keeps coming back to me, even now, in a fractured world. And I keep coming back to Darrel Chaney. I first encountered him when I was eight years old. That’s when the world started...

https://cardboardgods.net/2023/08/23/darrel-chaney-3/

What’s It Good For? part four of four I don’t know why that man I met in the alley was carrying a plastic lion, or how long he’d been carrying it, or where he found it, or why the brief exc...

https://cardboardgods.net/2020/07/22/sid-bream/

My father’s books fall apart as I read them. The one I’m reading now, The World of Our Fathers, by Irving Howe, crumbled into two pieces at the page 92–93 spread, in which Howe talks about ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2019/11/05/john-smoltz/

According to the Gods: a 2011 Team-By-Team Preview Atlanta Braves Pete Smith was a lifetime .118 hitter with a .174 on-base percentage and a .147 slugging percentage. He didn’t hit a single hom...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/03/12/pete-smith/

What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 25 of 25) (continued from Clarence Gaston) Years ago the Braves came together in an empty stadium and feigned a smiling togetherness. After...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/02/18/atlanta-braves-1978/

What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 24 of 25) (continued from Rob Belloir) Most of life is made up of forgettable moments. Clarence Gaston, better known by his childhood nicknam...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/02/10/clarence-gaston/

What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 23 of 25) (continued from Joe Nolan) This Rob Belloir card has been sitting face-up on my desk for days. I have turned it over a couple of t...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/02/04/rob-belloir/

What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 22 of 25) (continued from Eddie Solomon) Joe Nolan’s many years of middling minor league numbers fill up the majority of the back of this c...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/02/01/joe-nolan/

What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 21 of 25) (continued from Buzz Capra) Eddie Solomon was a journeyman, a major league drifter, sometimes able and other times unable to comman...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/01/28/eddie-solomon/

What Is the Meaning of the 1978 Atlanta Braves? (card 20 of 25) (continued from Vic Correll) The 1978 Atlanta Braves are a matter of inconsequential record now, all their games played, all their...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/01/25/buzz-capra-2/