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I was extremely disturbed to see that Mr. Manrique has been knocked out of the #1 all-time spot by Kent Tekulve 2.0. So I thought I should remind everyone of Mr. Manrique’s greatness. Vote anything less than 5 stars at your own risk.
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.
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Mr. Walter tied the AL record for most balks in a game, with 4, on July 18, 1988. The 1988 season proved to be Mr. Walter’s last in the majors, depite his card coming from the 1989 Topps set.
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Mr. Fermin is a throwback to the days of NerdBaseball on MySpace. In 1996, Mr. Fermin was nearly traded to the Yankees for Mariano Rivera. After that same season, he ended his career with a total of four home runs in 2,767 at bats.
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Mr. Pena was a four time Gold Glove winner, and a five time All-Star. He managed the Kansas City Royals from 2002-2006, and has been a base/bench coach for the New York Yankees since then.
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Interesting Don Carman facts from Wikipedia:
1) All-Stars Craig Biggio, Ken Griffey Jr., Jeffrey Leonard, Pete Rose, Larry Walker, and Matt Williams went a collective 1-for-40 against Mr. Carman in their careers.
2) Following a game in 1990, Mr. Carman grew tired of the repetitive post-game questions he was forced to answer. After creating a handwritten list of 37 standard responses to these questions, he posted them on his locker, and invited reporters to choose which response they wanted. The list included cliches like “I’d rather be lucky than good” and “We’re going to take the season one game at a time.
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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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.
We here at Nerd Baseball were torn about whether or not to add any Chirs Sabo cards to the Nerd Archive. On the one hand, he single handedly brought Rec-Specs into the public consciousness. On the other hand, those things never really took off, and he ended up being one of the only guys to wear them. On the one hand, among casual baseball fans, he ranks extraordinarily high on the name-recognition scale (for a nerd). On the other hand, finding Chris Sabo nerd cards is almost too easy. There’s no sense of wonder, or discovery, when you find one.
In the end, we found a couple that we decided were keepers.
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Happy Opening Week everybody. Regular nerd schedule resumes on Monday.
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Mr. Kittle now gives motivational speeches, and sells some pretty sweet benches from his website.
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