Stadium Visit (Wayback Machine Edition): McKeon Park, Hyannis Harbor Hawks (CCBL)
Amanda the Librarian, our dog Ollie and I visited McKeon Park in June 2019. I don’t know why I didn’t do a stadium visit post on the old Ashburn & Yawkey. But I didn’t. And with our new New England…
Stadium Visit: Frawley Stadium (Wilmington Blue Rocks)
Finally, The Rock has returned to Wilmington. It’s been a long, awful 15 months since our last stadium visit and 21 since our last baseball game (an August 2019 tilt at the now retired McCoy Stadium for the now moved…
Zen and the Art of Organizing Cards
I am perpetually disorganized when it comes to my card collection. I have the best of intentions with collecting, organizing and maintaining a neat and orderly baseball card collection. But it seems to be impossible for me. Today, for instance,…
Full Pull Set: 1992 Sky Box Double-A Minor League Box
The same trip that netted a 94% complete ’86 Donruss book found a 1992 Sky Box “Pre-Rookie” Double-A minor league box that was still in it’s shrink wrap. This box was $10 and features an awesome, clean and bright white…
Stop Looting Target
Twitter is infuriating. Also, the sky is blue. Water is wet. Winter is coming. Twitter is infuriating. I saw a strip of posts in my timeline about people bragging on their massive Wal-Mart or Target hauls. People who are hardcore…
Not the MLB: Cangrejeros de Santurce
One of the things I hope to achieve with this “Not the MLB” series is to expose baseball fans to the wider world of baseball. Baseball is an international game, it’s played at a highly competitive level in Europe, Asia,…
A-Z Music Challenge
Chris, The Collector, issued a scene-wide challenge for bloggers to share their all time favorite music groups (or at least one favorite band with each letter of the alphabet). Matt (our friend at Diamond Jesters) posted his list, and it…
Mail Day: Darren Daulton PC Jump Start & Jai Alai Cards? (Jai Alai Cards.)
I’ve been fascinated by jai alai since I saw the scene in the opening montage of Miami Vice. Compared to the other sports that I had grown up watching, it was kind of exotic. And in the 80’s and 90’s…
1986 Donruss Binder – Flea Market Find
Last week my fiancé and I were out and we ended up dropping into an, I don’t know, not quite an antique shop, not quite a second hand toy store. But there’s a shop down in Fall River that has…
Mail Day: 2018 Topps Flagship Trade
A quick update to thank Matt, who blogs at Diamond Jesters, for sending some 2018 Topps flagship needs my way. The George Springer was one of a few cards Matt sent that filled finished off some pages. So here is…
Baseball cards and nonsense.
