On September 22, 2002, a couple of also-rans suited up in Cincinnati to play out the string on a three-game series that meant nothing to the season dying right there before them. That Sunday afternoon, the Philadelphia Phillies...
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You know what changed forever in the spring of 1981? Carlton Fisk baseball cards, that’s...
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Winter is one long old son of a gun, and I’m pretty convinced it gets longer and harder...
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With due apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edgar Martinez, I know who the real ancient mariner is — it’s legendary Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski.
By the time I started collecting baseball cards in earnest in 1983, Yaz was in his final season with the Sawx, which was totally amazing considering that he was 71 years old at the time. So it wasn’t surprising that he was all over the place that summer, from This Week in 1960 Topps Carl YastrzemskiBaseball to Baseball Cards Magazine to an intriguing 1983 Topps Super Veteran card.
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WHIP stands for Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched. It’s a simple measure of a...
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