Mail Day: Special Delivery from BaseballCard.Art
April 12, 2021Great addition to my personal collection thanks to Matthew Lee Rosen of baseballcard.art.
In Response to Dan Schlossberg’s Editorial on Politics in Baseball
One of the many benefits of being a member of the IBWAA is a regular email blast with articles written by other members. Today’s email included a piece by Dan Schlossberg, a well regarded baseball & travel writer. His piece…
Stop Supporting Celebrity Bum Fights
My YouTube recommendations have been flooded with Ben “Funky” Askren vs Jake Paul promo videos. Ben Askren I was very familiar with because I was heavily invested in MMA when he broke into the sport in Bellator FC. He eventually…
OOTP: Pitch For More Cohesive National Teams
One of the things I enjoy most about Out of the Park Baseball is the game’s depth & width. The baseball universe you can create in the game is limited literally only by your computer’s processing power. When I create…
What I’ve Been Up To
It’s been quiet in the blog, but I’ve been doing a lot of baseball card stuff lately. A week or two ago I jumped on a Skype call with Armand Rosamillia of the IBWAA Podcast to talk about the website,…
Not the MLB: Naranjeros de Hermosillo
Let’s get back to looking at cool teams that aren’t in Major League Baseball. The “Not the MLB” series is a sequel to my “Not the NFL” series where I built a football league based exclusively on cool uniforms and…
2018 Topps Flagship Set Building Needs
Still sorting through all my more recent cards, including a couple boxes of 2018 flagship. After collation, I have almost 75% of the core set (I’m not particularly worried about the short prints & variants). Here are my core set…
Set Buildings: 2018 Stadium Club
I had a bunch of 2018 Stadium Club cards from some Target packs I got in 2018. Had enough that I figured I would build the set. I’m still getting my collection together and organized, so for the time being,…
Video Update: Let’s Collect Topps Bunt #1 with a Huge Iconic Hit
Not the MLB: Tokyo Yakult Swallows
Continuing our exploration of the best looking baseball teams not in Major League Baseball, we focus on Japan’s NPB. Joining the NC Dinos in our Asian/Pacific Division are the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Team: Tokyo Yakult Swallows (東京ヤクルトスワローズ) Hometown: Shinjuku, Tokyo,…
Not the MLB: Changwon NC Dinos
In October 2019 I did a series at my original site called “Not the NFL”, where I put together a football league based solely on the coolest football logos in professional football history (of teams that are not in the…
Baseball cards and nonsense.
