Toward the very end of the year, I found a nice deal on a ’49 Bowman Carl Furillo rookie card. It presents pretty well, and I paid for it near-entirely withCOMC sales. Definitely one of the highlights of my Brooklyn Dodgers collection now. ...
A yearly cardboard experience for MLB collectors, 2020 Topps Chrome Baseball supplies fans with a chromium take on the flagship design. Just like in2019, formats include Hobby boxes with two autographs and HTA Jumbo boxes with five autographs. 2020 Topps Chrome Baseball Base / Parallels Highlight...
New Era, the official on-field brand of MLB caps, will have its logo featured on the left side of each player's cap. The new caps will debut in the wild card games, continue throughout the playoffs, and become a permanent part of uniforms in the 2017 season. The replicas — which c...
One thing I do find time for is a card shop visit every couple of weeks. I’m lucky to have two so close to me, Hoody’s and The Sports Room. They balance each other nicely. The Sports Room is the closest, oldest and the one I’ve gone to the most, but their selection is a...
Baseball has continued to be the main drawing card. The growth of the CWS prompted the stadium’s renovation and expansion, which began in earnest in the early ’90s and is ongoing today. A new look Rosenblatt is at once a throwback to a bygone era – with its steel-girded grandstand an...
if a player is on a hot streak, his card will change to make it more likely (for example) that he will hit a home run and less likely that he will strike out. Similarly, if the team’s ace has been getting shelled, his card will be changed to increase the odds that he’ll be...
The data originated from Retrosheet (www.retrosheet.org), Project Scoresheet (now defunct), The Baseball Workshop (now part of Total Sports), and Total Sports. Here are the totals:Fielding Totals, Grass/Turf, 1980-97 Pos S Innings PO A E DP PB FPct PO/9 A/9 DP/9 PB/9 --- - ...
So many clubs qualifying for Wild Card berths diminish the significance of divisional play, possibly an unwise decision by MLB, which had faced economic pressures to model itself on other U.S. pro sports in their loooong seasons: the NFL, NBA, and especially the NHL—in fall, winter, spring...
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If you've done a good job of raising your son they way I think you have the fact he's seen that C on the report card is more punishment than anything you could do to him. He's probably been beating himself up over this since he found out about it. You can let your son play,...