Posts Tagged ‘1989’
Monday, May 17th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1989, bob kipper, elf nerd, fleer, hat placement, pirates, pitcher
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Monday, January 4th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

Considering the man in this picture is just wearing a Yankees t-shit, I thought that maybe someone bumped into the photographer, resulting in a casual fan appearing in Mr. Mohorcic’s place. This, however, is not the case. Two amazing stories about Mr. Mohorcic from Wikipedia (though neither explain the t-shirt wearing):
1) In a 1987 game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Mohorcic was accused of doctoring the baseball. Umpires found no evidence of wrongdoing at the time, but after the game Mohorcic complained of a sore throat, and was admitted to a hospital where it was discovered that he was suffering internal bleeding as a result of having Crohn’s disease and taking the pain reliever naproxen. It was erroneously reported by Peter Gammons that Mohorcic’s bleeding was caused by swallowing sandpaper.
2) Mohorcic played the part of Angels starting pitcher Dave Spiewak in the 1988 movie The Naked Gun.
Tags: 1989, dale mohorcic, fleer, hat placement, pitcher, t-shirt, yankees
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1989, distorted faces, fleer, hat placement, hipolito pena, nerd, yankees
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1989, facial hair, felix fermin, flat brim, fleer, fu manchu, hat placement, Mariano Rivera, mariono rivera, pirates, ss, trade
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1989, catcher, facial hair, fleer, glasses, nerd, tony pena
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Monday, May 18th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
Tags: 1989, fleer, glasses, hat placement, phillies, pitcher
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City
While not a nerd, per se, I just had to share what might be the most inexplicable baseball card in the nerd archives.
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(12 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5)
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Seriously. What is going on here?
1) According to wikipedia and baseball-reference, Fleer misspelled Mr. Riles first name (Ernest, not Earnest).
2) He was obviously posing in his batting stance. Whose decision was it to let his head overlap the border, but let the bat get cut off so it looks like he’s in some strange yoga pose?
3) Really? You can’t show his whole body? Is there a precedent for this type of photo cropping?
4) Did someone take a landscape shot of the outfield grass, and then photoshop Mr. Riles into it, except they didn’t know how to resize the second image?
I demand answers. And despite having a career OPS+ of 89, Mr. Riles deserves better.
Tags: 1989, 3B, bad photoshopping, fleer, giants, inexplicable, not really a nerd, ss
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