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I recently picked up Larry Dierker for my online Strat-O-Matic 1977 team, freeing up a little salary by virtue of his being cheaper than my previous cheapest pitcher, Steve Mingori. I designated ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2022/05/28/larry-dierker/

When I was a kid I associated Joe Ferguson with my Uncle Conrad and a recurring character on Star Trek named Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd. The three men didn’t look that much alike, but all...

https://cardboardgods.net/2017/11/01/joe-ferguson/

Ken Boswell was for some reason sent out to his photo shoot for the 1976 Topps set in a generic orange helmet. I don’t recall ever seeing this on any other baseball card that came to me back in...

https://cardboardgods.net/2017/02/16/ken-boswell/

“I think it’s one of the real gifts that art has for us as human beings . . . it gives us a channel to connect with each other that regular life doesn’t give us.” – Wayne Kramer All I d...

https://cardboardgods.net/2017/02/10/doug-konieczny/

This is important. It is my all-alliterative M team, featuring both Milt May and his father, who went by the name Pinky while with the Phillies from 1939 through 1945 but whose given name was Mer...

https://cardboardgods.net/2017/02/03/milt-may/

ALDS preview, part two (see part one here) First of all, before we get to any predictions, can we take a moment to imagine the World Series that never was? I’m talking about 1980, when the two ...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/08/tommy-helms-and-vada-pinson/

Here is my preview of the first game of the 2015 playoffs, based on two randomly chosen baseball cards from my childhood collection and their relation to the basic existential question of life. W...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/10/06/tommy-helms-and-dick-tidrow/

Immortality 2. What if, shortly after this photograph was taken, a baserunner careened into Craig Biggio in the manner in which Pete Rose, in an All-Star Game, separated Ray Fosse’s shoulder an...

https://cardboardgods.net/2015/01/05/craig-biggio/

How Strange the Design Conclusion There used to be a big bookstore on 57th Street and Broadway, Coliseum Books. It lasted from 1974 until 2002 in that location. Sometime in late 1999 or early 200...

https://cardboardgods.net/2012/02/12/craig-reynolds/

Cliff Johnson started his career in the 1970s as a catcher in the Astrodome. He was about as suited for that position in that time and place as a grizzly bear at a chess tournament. He appeared b...

https://cardboardgods.net/2011/07/06/cliff-johnson/