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Possibly the biggest disparity between a too loose jersey and too tight pants in nerd history. Also, the first ambidextrous nerd. Mr. Dayley has since founded The Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing.
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When I was growing up and living with my parents, I stored all of my baseball cards in a closet in the TV room. Recently, my parents began renovating this room and had to empty out the closets. Upon doing so, my Mom made it clear to me that I had to store my baseball cards in my own house. This has resulted in tens of thousands of (mostly worthless) baseball cards sitting in boxes in my sunroom.
I was flipping through some of the cards the other day and found Mr. Barber, one of many 1992 Topps Draft Pick cards that features really awkward photos straight out of school picture day. Barber was selected in the first round (22nd overall) in the 1991 draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. From 1995-99, he got into 26 games for the Cardinals and Royals, going 5-8 with a 6.77 ERA.
From the back of the card: “Is elongated young man, towering 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches and weighing 170 pounds.”
Brother of Slick Coffman, who had a short career in the late 1930s as a pitcher, Dick Coffman played for 15 seasons for the Washington Senators (twice), the St. Louis Browns (twice), the New York Giants, the Boston Bees, and the Philadelphia Phillies. He was thoroughly mediocre, posting a career 72-95 record with a 96 ERA+ over 1460 innings. He pitched for the 1936 and 1937 New York Giants teams that lost to the New York Yankees in consecutive World Series. Coffman didn’t help his team much in those efforts, posting a 12.00 ERA in 6 World Series innings.
Incredibly, he was traded twice for the same player – within six months! On June 9, 1932, Coffman was traded by the Browns to the Senators for pitcher Carl Fischer. On December 13, 1932, the Senators traded him back to the Browns for Carl Fischer.
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Pascual Perez is most likely the biggest show boater of the Nerd Baseball group to date. He would use an imaginary finger gun to shoot opponents, pound the baseball into the dirt on the mound and sprint to the bench after completing an inning with an excess of gold chains and Jheri-curls bouncing around.
He earned the nickname “I-285″ after missing a start on August 19, 1982 while circling Atlanta’s Interstate 285 looking for Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
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According to Wikipedia, Mr. Quirk held the career home run record (43) for players whose last names started with “Q” until Mark Quinn passed him in 2002. Carlos Quentin passed that mark in 2008, and is the current record holder.
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