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From Wikipedia:
During the 1980s, a variation of the Chicago-style hot dog called the Vance Law Dog was sold at Wrigley Field. It featured a traditional Chicago-style hot dog topped with cole slaw and ketchup. Some fans incorrectly referred to the dog as ‘The Vance Slaw Dog’ because of the inclusion of cole slaw. The dog was a personal favorite of the late broadcasting legend Harry Caray.
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After Monday’s post questioned Mr. Sabo’s place in baseball eye-wear history, I wanted to remind everyone of why most people associate him with Rec-Specs in the first place. Whether or not he pioneered their use in MLB, he wore them well, and wove the Rec-Specs name into the consciousness of 7-13 year old baseball card collectors. And he was featured in this amazing “Diamond Kings” card.
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Typically, I like to have a baseball card physically in the Nerd Archive before posting it on this site. However, while doing some research for a post on Vance Law, I ran across this card through a Google image search. Needless to say, I couldn’t pass it up:
Mr. Law played all 25 innings of the longest game in American League hisory (May 8/9, 1984 vs. Milwaukee). He is also the son of the 1960 Cy Young Award winner Vern Law (who is credited with the saying “a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.”) Stay tuned in future posts for more Vance Law nerd cards.
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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