14 hours ago by Tom Sheepandgoats

Football season's over. And though it was just whimsy at first, the more I turn the idea over in my head, the more I'd love to see it for next year: atheist football players with Matt 6:5 on their eyeblack....

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1 day ago by Ernest Reyes

With it almost a week into the 2012 Topps Baseball madness, I am sure many of you have already seen this card, or others like it. It is a limited insert card found in packs that feature 15 different Golden Greats along with a golden colored coin embedded with it. This is the Sandy Koufax coin insert ...

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2 days ago by William Miller

Every once in a while, as I’m doing some research for this blog, I’ll come across a baseball statistic that catches me off guard. I’m not suggesting that no one else has ever noticed any of these odd items before, but if they are new to me, they might just be new to you, too. To begin with, which pa ...

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6 days ago by toddric

(This article appeared in the Anderson Valley Advertiser February 2012) “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” Sylvia Plath Marcia and I were walking on Big River Beach yesterday, the wet sand firm underfoot—Big River swollen and muddy from the recent deluge, a light rain falling. As we reve ...

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7 days ago by William Miller

If the decade of the 1970′s is known primarily as the decade of uninhibited excess, that also applies to Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame during that decade. An astonishing 36 former Major League ball players were inducted during the ’70′s, 22 of them by the Veteran’s Committee alone. As we have ...

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12 days ago by Ernest Reyes

The Negro League Baseball Museum Legacy Awards Banquet is this coming Saturday, and as I reported several months ago, both Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw are getting awards. Kemp took home the Oscar Charleston (MVP) and Josh Gibson (Home Run Leader) Awards and Kershaw took the Bullet Rogan "Pitcher o ...

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12 days ago by chrisolds

By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor With five days remaining until the arrival of the hobby’s most collected baseball card set, Topps has pulled back the curtain on a set of rather lustrous cards that will be found in packs of 2012 Topps as redemptions. They are the Solid Golden Greats, 1/1 card ...

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15 days ago by Ron Kaplan

Sandy at the bat: based on a post from Jewish Baseball News, I composed this little big of doggerel with apologies to Ernest L. Thayer.

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15 days ago by Jesse

I don't buy that many hobby packs, but for those that like to go crazy, here's your chance to get some nice Gold. If you send in 50 hobby wrappers of 2012 Topps Baseball Series 1 to Topps before the February 29th deadline, you will receive a 5-card pack of exclusive Gold Rush cards. They have includ ...

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15 days ago by chrisolds

By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor Ok, all you cardboard 49ers … the 2012 Topps Gold Rush rules have been declared. Eight days before the arrival of its flagship baseball card set for 2012, Topps has unveiled the details of its Gold Rush wrapper redemption program, and it’s one that won’t last ...

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