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A member of the 1969 World Series winning Mets, as well as a coach for the 1986 World Series winning Mets.
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Bud Harrelson
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 by I Love Nerd York CityGary Weiss
Monday, February 1st, 2010 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (13 votes, average: 4.62 out of 5)
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Mr. Weiss played only 22 games in his MLB career, all with the Dodgers.
Wayne Tolleson
Monday, October 19th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (13 votes, average: 3.62 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.
Rey Quinones
Monday, September 7th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (14 votes, average: 3.93 out of 5)
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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.
Frank Duffy
Monday, August 24th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (14 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
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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.
Felix Fermin
Monday, August 3rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityClick the stars to vote: (13 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)
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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.
Ernest Riles
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityWhile 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.
Rafael Landestoy
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityDonruss Employee A: I think we need to use a different picture. His face is covered in shadow, and the picture is way blurry. Oh yeah, and the grass kind of looks orange.
Donruss Employee B: Fuck it.
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Major League Baseball player, or a young Babu Bhatt from Seinfeld?
Mario Mendoza
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityAnother example of Fleer just not giving a shit.
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Mendoza as in "The Mendoza Line" fame...You see that look on his face? Either he just got look at his own batting stats (a career .245 OBP and .262 slugging pct), or someone just farted.
The only way the quality of the 1982 Fleer set makes sense is if they somehow got in a time machine and commissioned my high school basic photography class to take their photos. Even then, I’m pretty sure Mr. Carter gave us the f-stop and framing lessons within the first week. Take away the red border and this shabby baseball card becomes a post-modern work of art…The white of Mr. Mendoza’s jersey fading seamlessly into the bright white of the sky illustrating the fine line between existence and nothingness…OK, no more drinking on weeknights…
Rick Auerbach
Monday, April 6th, 2009 by I Love Nerd York CityReal MLB games are FINALLY HERE!!! To celebrate, we’ll be posting a new nerd card every day this week. That’s right, five new nerds in five days!!! Can you handle the glasses? Can you handle the facial hair? Can hat brims possibly get any flatter? Lets find out…Also, this is our first “by request” nerd.
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