Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by Nerdicus Finch
From the back of the card: “When they want somebody to come through with a hit in the pinch they call on Dave Harris.”
The back of the card states that most of Harris’s work came as a pinch hitter, but his career stats suggest that he was more of a part-time player/pinch hitter, and a pretty good one at that. Over seven seasons with the Boston Braves, Washington Senators, and Chicago White Sox, Harris posted a career .812 OPS (111 OPS+) with a respectable .368 OBP, primarily as an outfielder. In 1932 (.938 OPS), he placed 19th in the MVP voting, which seems completely insane, considering he only appeared in 81 games, with only 177 plate appearances.
Harris’s nickname was “The Sheriff.” According to the back of the card, Harris was “a sheriff in his home town of Greensboro, N.C.”
Tags: 1933, 1933 Goudey, Back in the day when players had jobs in the offseason, Boston Braves, Dave Harris, MVP award, OPS, pinch hitter, Sheriff, Washington Senators, white sox
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 by Nerdicus Finch
From the back of the card: “Fast ball pitcher.”
Last week, I posted that I was beginning a collection of 1933 Goudey baseball cards, with the intention of completing the entire 239 card set within half a decade or so. Here’s the first card.
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Tags: 1933, 1933 Goudey, Al Simmons, babe ruth, Connie Mack, ERA+, Jimmie Foxx, Lee Roy Mahaffey, Lefty Grove, Leroy Mahaffey, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Cochrane, Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Browns, St. Louis Cardinals, Waite Hoyt
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Monday, September 21st, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1977, brian downing, catcher, glasses, hair, hat placement, one big batting glove or ace bandage or something, prince valiant, topps, turtleneck, white sox
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by Nerdicus Finch
Thanks to a recent amazing gift from Mrs. Nerdicus Finch, I’ve had my interest in collecting baseball cards rekindled. Specifically, old-timey baseball cards. While the players weren’t very nerdy back then, collecting baseball cards is always nerdy, especially when you are as far away from childhood as I am. So I think this is a sufficiently nerdy topic for this web site.
There are so many awesome old baseball cards out there, so, to focus, I have decided to channel my interest in old-timey cards in a specific direction: I am going to try to assemble an entire set of 1933 Goudey cards. Goudey was an old chewing gum company and was a real innovator in the development of the kind of baseball cards that would later be popularized by Bowman and Topps in the 1950s. The 1933 set, a 240 card set, was Goudey’s first and is generally considered one of the three greatest baseball card sets of all time, along with the 1909-1911 T-206 set (which has the famous Honus Wagner card) and the 1952 Topps set (which has the famous Mickey Mantle card).
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Tags: 1933, 1933 Goudey, babe ruth, Bowman, Burleigh Grimes, Eppa Rixey, Heinie Manush, Honus Wagner, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Nerdicus Finch is really nerdy, Phil Collins, T-206, topps
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1981, 1b, danny goodwin, DH, donruss, facial hair, hair, mlb draft, twins
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Brian Downing in the 1980′s
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For my money, this is easily the best facial hair I’ve seen on a baseball card. Mr. Goodwin holds the distinction of being the only player to be selected first overall in MLB’s draft twice. He was selected first overall out of high school, opted for college, and four years later, was drafted first overall again.