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What I Found At The Bottom Of My Father's Huge Collection Of Baseball Stuff

“Did he still have The Brooks Room?” one of my dad’s old friends asked me at his wake last July. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard the question that day. The Brooks Room was what his friends called the small basement room in Queens where he kept his collection of baseball cards, programs, figures, ...

Let's Remember Some Guys, Early '80s Fleer Mustache Dudes Edition

The Rememberer’s art is, for the most part, a lonely one. That is kind of portentous and serious-sounding, but it also seemed like a better way to begin this post than the thought it was intended to convey, which is “if you are someone who remembers a lot of rando middle reliever dudes from your you...

Let's Remember Some Guys, Random Baseball Card Treasure Trove Volume II

In this week’s thrilling installment of Let’s Remember Some Guys, Lauren and I return to the treasure trove/antique printer box of unsolicited baseball cards mailed to our office by an unnamed benefactor in search of ... I should probably have figured out the conclusion to this sentence before I sta...

Somebody found seven 100-year-old Ty Cobb cards in a crumpled paper bag in their deceased great-grandfather’s falling apart house. Cool! [AP]...

Sy Berger, who worked for Topps for 50 years and designed the first "modern" baseball card in 1952, died over the weekend. The New York Times has a nice obituary of him, which also serves as an interesting look at the history of baseball cards. [New York Times]...

New Baseball Cards Visualize Advanced Stats

The image above comes from a new line of sabermetric-inspired baseball cards. According to SportTechie, the cards are a partnership between Bloomberg Sports and Topps. The cards feature home run spray charts for hitters and strikeout pitch location for pitchers. ...

Spoonerized Baseball Cards Are A Delight

Over at The Classical, SYH has photoshopped some spoonerized baseball cards for your viewing pleasure. Check them all out here, and make sure to take a look at his first batch from September....

Baseball Cards Made Into Stop Motion Animation Are The Coolest Thing

Here's your new favorite dumb baseball bookmark. It's a site called REPLAY that's taking a bunch of old baseball cards of players doing the same thing—swinging a bat, throwing a pitch, bunting—and turning them into one continuous motion. It's mesmerizing. ...

Can I Flip It?

Allen Barra once gave me a set of Major League Writers trading cards. ...

Sam Eifling goes long on the rise and fall of Upper Deck baseball cards. [TBL]...

Baseball Card Vandals

Here's some cheap laffs and good fun for ya: Baseball Card Vandals. ...

Keith Olbermann has found the best eBay seller ever: Every signed Eddie Mathews card comes with a thousand-word stream-of-consciousness rant on...well, we have no idea. [Baseball Nerd]...