Next year’s stamps, all together
Don’t these look beautiful? They’ll be great to have — one sheet to keep, others to use — next summer*. *Assuming the Post Office still exists.
Don’t these look beautiful? They’ll be great to have — one sheet to keep, others to use — next summer*. *Assuming the Post Office still exists.
Every week I seem to come across another connection between New Jersey and baseball’s past, sometimes a significant part of it or something that should be more well known than it is. The most recent find goes back to a…
July 4 is a big day for Yankee baseball. It was George Steinbrenner’s birthday and that top hat logo was just made for the holiday. (I do love the way the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees incorporated it into their uniforms. If you…
Did a little Jackie Robinson research this morning, prompted by the 1956 Topps card shown above. I was curious as to when the slide into home may have occurred, presuming the scene depicted was based on a photograph of an…
In honor of Princeton starting its baseball season tonight in Baton Rouge, here’s a photo of legendary Tigers coach Bill Clarke that I picked up in an auction earlier this year. Clarke worked with the team on and off from…
While flipping through Google Reader last night, I came across a post mentioning a rummage sale of sorts at the Yogi Berra Museum at Montclair State. My first thought was, Cool! Glad I checked this post. The second thought was…
There has been a lot of talk lately about the highest-paid players in the game, from the Albert Pujols talks to the history of the game’s most-compensated stars through the years. And then Devon Young over at Seamheads compared those…
In researching another post, I came across this article in the June 3, 1959, edition of the Daily Capital News out of Jefferson City, Mo. If only Joba Chamberlain could have remained as composed.
The Angels announced on Friday that they’ll feature “Flashback Fridays” as part of their 50th anniversary this season. To kick it off, they’ll wear reproductions of their 1989-92 uniform (with the 50th anniversary patch added) on April 8, April 22…