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Apparently, Mr. Clary now works with the Global Youth Baseball Federation, a non-profit Christian baseball organization. In 2002, he and other former players traveled to Cuba to play baseball and “share the gospel.”
This weekend, while leaving Target, I saw packs of 2009 Upper Deck baseball cards hanging by the check-out line. Since I hadn’t purchased new baseball cards in over a decade, I figured I’d indulge the impulse buy. If you gave me one thousand guesses, I doubt I would’ve been able to guess who I would find in that pack:
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This card is from the regrettable 1991 Leaf Studio set, which is a good example of baseball cards in the early 1990s. Following the launch of Upper Deck in 1989, all of the baseball card companies starting putting out “premium” sets, which got more ridiculous looking each year. The Leaf Studio set exclusively featured black and white portraits that looked like yearbook photos.
Instead of stats, the back of the card lists hobbies and interests. For Mr. Gomez, his hobbies include going to church and listening to contemporary Christian music.
Anyone who grew up collecting baseball cards in the late 1980s and early 1990s is intimately familiar with Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. I was a subscriber for several years and eagerly awaited the arrival of each issue, so that I could check out which player was featured on the front and back covers, as well as the soaring value of my stack of 1989 Upper Deck Jerome Walton rookie cards. My other favorite thing about Beckett was the “Funny Cards” section, in which readers would send in baseball cards that they had altered for humorous effect.
Inspired by the creativity of other Beckett readers, I produced my own “funny” cards, which my ten-year-old sense of humor thought were pretty damned clever. They weren’t. In fact, looking at my efforts nearly two decades later is pretty embarrassing. Nevertheless, I will periodically feature some of my “funny” cards on Nerd Baseball. The first masterwork, Steve Trout, is displayed below. I apologize in advance for the douche chills.
I probably would have made a Steve Sax "funny" card as well, but I didn't know how to draw a saxophone.
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