You’ve got to hand it to the Studio sets.  They had a vision, and that vision was realized.

Mr. Thompson was in the National League’s top 7 in WAR twice in his career.  According to Wikipedia, he used the same glove for almost his entire career, and was offended when the San Francisco Chronicle published a story titled “Thompson’s Ugly, Pathetic Glove is a Gem.”

A member of the 1969 World Series winning Mets, as well as a coach for the 1986 World Series winning Mets.

Did anyone else read “Highlights” magazine when they were a little kid? One of monthly features was a “hidden pictures” page, or a “spot the differences” page, where they would show you two pictures that were almost exactly the same…but with several slight differences. These usually included someone’s eyes looking in the opposite direction, or having a button missing from their shirt.

Anyway, all these years later, fate intervened and put these two cards one on top of the other in the Nerd Archive.

Mr. McKnight, throughout two different stints with the Mets, wore more uniform numbers than any other player in history*. He wore numbers 5, 7, 15, 17, and 18. While with the Orioles, he wore number 38.

*100% conjecture

I love these prop-nerd-cards.

Nothing says baseball like string hammocks, garden statues, and guitars.

Upping the ante is Mr. Flannery:

Did he just happen to have his board at the park that day, or did he plan on having it there for picture day?

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Major League Baseball player, or a young Babu Bhatt from Seinfeld?

1) He was the 2nd ever Asian American to play Major League Baseball.

2) He was part of one of the coolest sounding games ever — On August 24, 1983 the Orioles rallied to tie their game against the Blue Jays in the bottom of the ninth inning. While doing so, they were forced to replace their starting catcher, AND his backup, so Mr. Sakata was put behind the plate to start the 10th inning. Three consecutive Blue Jays reached first base in the top of the tenth, and each of them (thinking it would be easy to steal second with Sakata catching) were picked off by O’s pitcher Tippy Martinez. Sakata then hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the tenth.

3) While mostly a utility player, Mr. Sakata followed the nerd M.O. of playing professional baseball without being able to hit. Over the course of his ten year career, he was employed by the Brewers, Orioles, and Yankees. He appeared in over 550 games, with a career OPS+ of 71, and a career OBP of .286. His 1984 season ranks as a particularly low-point for nerds, where he played in 108 games with 168 plate appearances and an OPS+ of 33!!! On the bright side, you’ve got to love the hair.

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