Posts Tagged ‘pitcher’

Teddy Higuera

Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Nerdini Alfredo

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Teddy Higuera

Ron Davis

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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Wayne Garland, Bob Grich

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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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.

garland, wayne_1grich, bob_1

Dale Mohorcic

Monday, January 4th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York City

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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.

Chris Knapp

Monday, December 28th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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chris knapp

This is one of the more unsettling nerd cards I’ve come across.  I’m not sure why, and I’m sure Mr. Knapp is a very nice man, but something about this picture is frightening.

Gene Walter

Monday, December 21st, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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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.

Fred Breining

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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fred breining

Mr. Breining appeared to be in the middle of a decent career as a relief pitcher, when, according to Wikipedia, he blew out his shoulder throwing the ball to first base on a bunt attempt.  The Expos lost an arm out of the bullpen, but future generations lost a career that promised to be chock-full-of-nerd cards.

Mike Armstrong

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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nerd01 001Mr. Armstrong was the winning pitcher in the Yankees vs. Royals “pine tar game.”

Ken Dayley

Monday, October 12th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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keyley-ken

Possibly the biggest disparity between a too loose jersey and too tight pants in nerd history.  Also, the first ambidextrous nerd.  Mr. Dayley has since founded The Fauxcademy of Decorative Finishing.

Wally Ritchie

Thursday, September 17th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York City

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ritchie-wally

Behold my nomination for “largest baseball glove ever.” Totally sweet Phillies jersey, though.