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(5 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)
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There are so many things I love about this card. I love that it’s taken during batting practice. I love the expression on Mr. Veryzer’s face. I love that it looks like he belongs in the cast of “Wet Hot American Summer.”
Mr. Veryzer had a twelve year career with the Tigers, Indians, Mets, and Cubs.
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(15 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)
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Despite being listed at 5’9″ and 160 lbs., Mr. Tolleson bypassed a career in the NFL by signing with the Texas Rangers after the 1978 draft. That same year, his senior year at Western Carolina University, he was an All-American wide receive, and led the nation in receptions. With this athleticism, you would think he would have posted better than his career .307 OBP, and .293 slugging in over 2300 AB’s.
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If you check out a player’s baseball-reference.com page, you can usually find something interesting to talk about. Some weird statistical trend, an unexpected performance, a top-ten stats category you didnt know existed…unfortunately, here’s the best I’ve got for Mr. Quinones: In 1989, Mr. Quinones was 3rd in the National League in sacrifice flies (with 8).
While many baseball nerds have the “hat placement” tag bestowed upon them, Mr. Quinones is the first to receive the coveted “helmet placement” tag.
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Has there ever been a “throw back” uniform that has been as swept under the rug as this Cleveland Indians uniform? I have NEVER seen these red uniforms, and Halloween-looking-caps before this set of 1977 Topps cards. Not in baseball books, not in pictures, and not in old highlight reels. A brief internet search revealed that the Indians wore some version of these uniforms from 1975-77. Sometimes they wore the red shirt with white pants. Sometimes a white shirt with red pants. Sometimes a blue shirt with white pants. And sometimes a blue shirt with red pants. Yikes.
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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.
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.
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