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Mr. Brown seems to be in competition with Scott Garrelts and Tom Hume for the title of “largest glasses in baseball history.”
Mr. Brown appears to have played part time for 5 seasons (never more than 358 AB’s in a season). Considering he put up average to above-average OPS+ numbers in part time work, I don’t know why he didn’t have a longer career as a 4th outfielder.
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Never has a player’s appearance on a baseball card so literally represented the team for which they played. Two interesting facts from Wikipedia:
1) Mr. Romo served as the set-up man for Kent Tekulve on the 1979 World Champion Pirates.
2) In 1983, Mr. Romo failed to report to spring training. The Pirates attempted to locate him, but failed, and he was released. His whereabouts remained unknown until a few years ago, when he appeared publicly with his brother in Mexico (at his induction into the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame).
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Mr. Ladd had a short career as a relief pitcher with the Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, and Milwaukee Brewers. He had one memorable season – 1983, when he posted a 2.55 ERA (148 ERA+), 0.932 WHIP, and 25 saves in 44 appearances, taking over the closer role for the injured Rollie Fingers.
I like how the Mariners logo on the card is positioned directly over where the logo is on Mr. Ladd’s jersey.
Deadspin and a lot of other outlets beat me to it, but I thought this warranted a post. There was some hullabaloo in sports today over a cellphone camera video of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, apparently drunk in a bar, ripping Bill Parcells and Tim Tebow. I couldn’t possibly care any less about this story because I don’t care about football. I am interested, however, in the pious handwringing of out-of-touch old people in the media who took issue with the Jones video being reported on by major news outlets.
Dale Hunter, who is apparently a prominent sportscaster in Dallas, objected to his channel’s decision to air the Jones video. He had this to say:
“Our business now, too many times, is a fat kid in a T-shirt in his mother’s basement, eating Cheetos and writing his blogs — and we make it news.”
When I watched the clip on Deadspin, I wasn’t shocked to find that Hunter is an old white guy. It’s incredible how much alternative forms of media scare the hell out of old media dinosaurs like Hunter. With newspapers closing across the country, does this guy really want to be on the wrong side of the sea change?
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Sticking with 1984 Donruss, here’s Jerry Hairston (Sr.), father of current major leaguers Jerry Hairston, Jr. and Scott Hairston, both of the San Diego Padres. Hairston’s brother, John Hairston, played in 3 games for the Chicago Cubs in 1969, and Hairston’s father, Sam Hairston, got into four games as a 31 year old rookie for the Chicago White Sox in 1951. Sam Hairston’s career batting line (7 plate appearances): .400/.571./.600 (220 OPS+).
Do the Hairstons hold the title for most family members to play in the major leagues? The Alou family was much more accomplished, but there were only 4 of them. Ditto for the Boone family.
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I like this card for two reasons:
Also, my apologies for the lapse in posting; expect new nerd cards twice weekly in the coming months. I hope everyone is enjoying the first week of the baseball season.