ESPN -- LOS ANGELES -- Jay Johnstone, who won World Series championships as a versatile outfielder with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers while being baseball's merry prankster, has died. He was 74.
He died Saturday of complications from COVID-19 and had suffered from dementia in...
Wow, I wish I kept business cards of all of the card shops I went to. That’s cool. I can’t even remember a lot of the names of the shops I liked back then.
I grew up in a North Dallas suburb as a kid/teenager in the golden era of baseball card shops in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. There were three...
I love base cards. If you’re a baseball fan, how can you not love looking at the pictures and reading the backs?
I’m a set collector too, so all cards have the same fun value to me, regardless of what they’re worth.
It’s weird to me that people buy boxes and cast aside the base cards without...
Another terrible contract for a team with too much money. 13 years is insane. He'll be 40 when it's over.
He's an elite fielder and runner, but those skills will diminish significantly 5+ years before the contract ends.
Betts is a great player, but inconsistent. One year he hits .346, the...
Slim chance since I doubt a team will sign him at age 40+.
But his stats are tainted anyway, since he was suspended 50 games for using steroids several years ago, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s back on the juice or HGH to post these stats at his age.
If longtime stars like Jim Edmonds, Carlos Delgado and Kenny Lofton can’t even get 5% of the HOF vote to stay on the ballot past the first year, there’s no way Fielder with his shortened career makes it past the first ballot.
It’s a shame because he had 8 great years and was definitely on track...
Holy crap, that's one of my favorite sets of all time.
Those pictures make me drool.
I have the base set and several of them autographed that I sent to players through the mail back in the day. Mostly Yankees.