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Harry/Mark Part I: Pitchers on Parade
Check this out...1988 Score Mark Eichhorn TOR #198Do you ever look at a card that you've seen before... many times... over the course of several years, or even several decades, and feel like you're...
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Harry/Mark Part II: Vintage Dodgers
Yesterday we looked at the parade of pitchers that marched through my Card Night last Friday, courtesy of (blogless, therefore sane) Red Sox fan and vintage card trader Mark "Harry" Hoyle. That...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Jim Brewer
The best story about Jim Brewer stems from an incident that took place when he was a young Chicago Cub in 1960. The lefty had the nerve to brush back Billy Martin, then of the Reds, who responded by...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Nick Willhite
Nick Willhite is a baseball success story, though not so much for what he accomplished on the diamond. Pitching entirely during baseball's second deadball era in the '60s, the southpaw managed no...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Wes Covington
Wes Covington made a name for himself with the Milwaukee Braves. Used sparingly as a second-year player in the first half of the 1957 season, he would come on strong in the second half, finishing the...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Jack Billingham
Signed as an amateaur free agent by Los Angeles in 1961, Jack Billingham was groomed by the Dodgers to be a reliever. He would spend just one season at the big-league level with the franchise,...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Dick Allen
Dick Allen spent perhaps the quietest season of a very, very loud career with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1971. I'm not going to go into the details of Allen's colorful career, as the stories are well...
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Playing With My 2013 Card of the Year!
I was going to post about this card on the final day of 2013, but being there for my Grandma was more important. Now we're all immersed in 2014 Topps and this is old news. But, better late than...
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A Trade of Two Boroughs...
...not to mention a city in the Southern California desert, and an Asian island nation (by way of the Great Lakes region).It was the best of trades... it was the worst of trades...?I'm not sure which...
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The Hall of Ethan: Inaugural Class
The National Baseball Hall of Fame is an exclusive club. But not that exclusive. After all, you can find just about every Tom (Seaver), Dick (Williams) and Harry (Heilmann) within the Hall's halls. If...
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Early Bird's Night Owl Haul: Pack #16
What's this? Find outĀ here.When my Grandmother passed away at around the beginning of the year, I kinda hit the reset button as a blogger and collector. Obviously I got back into the ballgame quickly...
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Once Again, Here's Johnny...
John, of Johnny's Trading Spot, strikes me as many things: a passionate Braves fan, a dedicated blogger, a collector with an eye for the unusual (have you seen some of his interpretations of shadows on...
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Check Out My Impulse Buys
There were a few cards on COMC that I wanted to pick up recently for various projects and posts. But there weren't enough on that list to make the $3 shipping fee worthwhile. A collector has two...
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Cards From the Happiest Place on Earth
Sure, growing up in Southern California I loved the Matterhorn and Space Mountain at Disneyland. But my Happiest Place on Earth was among the hills of Chavez Ravine. A lot of life has happened over the...
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Mini-Collecting Under the eBay Radar
I recently read on someone's blog (sorry, I forget whose it was) that they'd had pretty good success with placing very low early bids on a bunch of cards and reaping the rewards when a few of them slip...
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Extras? Extras? Read All About It
You know, I need to stop underestimating what you people out there are likely to drop in the mail. When Matt over at Red Cardboard recently asked readers of his blog to take some unwanted cards off his...
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Correction: Mr. Hoyle
A short while ago, I received a truly awesome trade package from Mark "Harry" Hoyle, a non-blogger who is rapidly building a legend as the "Vintage Virtuoso" in the card blogging community. In my posts...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Don LeJohn
Three months spent in Los Angeles in 1965 represents the totality of Don LeJohn's big-league career. Yet the man was a Dodger almost exclusively for thirty-three years.That career began inĀ 1954 with...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Bob Lee
Bob Lee's career with the Dodgers consisted of four games early in the 1967 season.First three appearances: 3.2 IP, 0 Runs, 2 Hits, 2 K, 0 BBFinal appearance: 3.0 IP, 8 Runs (4 Earned), 4 Hits, 0 K, 3...
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Playing With My Dodgers: Jim Campanis
Just how far does nepotism go?Jim Campanis was "scouted" by Dodger scouting director Al Campanis (who happened to be his father), leading Los Angeles to sign the catcher as an ametuer free agent in...
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