Another Unlicensed Product

You can see why Upper Deck said "no go" without an MLB license.


Further proof...

My thanks to Kevin, the Core Contrarian, for providing the Garret Anderson card and for providing the artwork for his card. He just doesn't know it. Yet.

More Boys (and a Girl) of Summer

Last summer I posted about Bisbee's Boys of Summer baseball cards. For Christmas this last year I received another installation of them. This is the second set of three sets total. The 3" x 4" cards can be purchased at the Friends of Warren Ballpark's online store.

I don't know that I've every had a proxy signature before. Bob Henry pitched in the Minor Leagues from 1946 to 1951, never making it to the Major Leagues. He went 39-59 with a 5.63 ERA. Bob was born in either 1923 (ball card info) or 1925 (baseball-reference.com info). He passed away in 1991.

As far as I know, Anne is still with us.

Jim "Boom-Boom" Bynon never made it out of the minors. He played for eight seasons, bouncing back and forth between class B and C clubs. He ended up with a .295 Batting Average and punched out 188 Home Runs. He passed away in 1991 at the age of 69.

Clarence Maddern was the only native of Bisbee, Arizona to make it to the Majors. He played for the Cubs and the Indians a few times. In 1948 he played 80 games with the Cubs. His baseball career ran from 1940 until 1957, with a few years off during the war. He served in Europe. He passed away in 1986 at the age of 64.

"Tuck" Stainback had a successful career in the Majors from 1934 to 1946, occasionally dropping back into the minors. He was with Bisbee in 1931 as an outfielder. He hit .315 and 7 Home Runs with the Bees that season. He passed away in 1992 at the age of 81.

When They Were Young - Ryan Zimmerman

My inspiration...

Inspiration image lifted from the Night Owl Cards blog.

Contest Winnings - bigD Custom Card

bigD hosted a contest some time back. For some reason or another I was chosen. Karma, fate, payola, whatever. I had seen his work on other sites and was jealous. I wanted one.

Now I've got one. I asked for an Orel Hershiser. If I had won all four slots (it was possible, but improbable) I asked for four OH's, one for each of the Major League teams that he played for.

I'm not sure when this photo was taken. It was a standard shot of one of the dominant pitchers of the late 1980s. Big stretch and zing. Good placement. Try to score off of that one. Hah.

I am a Winner!

In eighth grade art class, Mr. Moran told us that we shouldn't mix fonts. Forget him. This works. Wonderfully.

Thanks a lot, bigD. This will fit in nicely with my collection.

Milestone Contest Winners announced

So, after eight entries and a weekend full of fun, I've decided to select the winner and toss the others into the randomizer to see who wins.

The rules were rather simple. Comment on one of my posts that made you smile. I would choose which one I liked the best.

Let's review...

• Night Owl liked four of my posts. Suck up. Beethoven, Debus, Dynamite, and Knoxville card show dealers.
• FanOfReds liked my post where I declared him the Gint-A-Cuffs winner.
• Core Contrarian liked my post where I climbed up on a soapbox.
• thesewingmachineguy liked the post where I talked about Jethro Tull.
• Baseball Dad liked the posts where I linked back to old card info. He didn't give a specific entry, but I'll point toward this one. Probably not the one he was thinking of, but too bad.
• BA Benny liked the post about Buck O'Neill and the happiest moment of his life.
• Play at the Plate liked two posts. One about Pimping Myself and the other was about Luke Sommer.
• McCann Can Triple liked my post about The Portraits of Derek Sanderson.

After reviewing the choices submitted, I decided to toss out Greg's entry. You don't get to be honored and have a chance to win. Besides, I've already got a small stack of cards waiting to go out to him.

That leaves seven entries. Out of these seven, I'll have to go with the Core Contrarian for picking the post that I liked the best. The Soapbox post, to me, stands up even though it was a year ago that I posted it. I like that one a lot.

When I made the rules, I said that the winner would get a Strat-O-Matic computer game for Windows. I have no clue what type of computer Mr. Contrarian uses. If he'd like a board game version of that, I can accommodate him. Being the winner, if he'd like to opt for the books or the cards, I will also allow that.

Now, on to the remaining six entries...

1. FanOfReds
2. thesewingmachineguy
3. Baseball Dad
4. BA Benny
5. Play at the Plate
6. McCann Can Triple

I'll pop the numbers into the Randomizer.org's Research Randomizer and tell it to shuffle them three times. The second and third place winners will be the first two numbers in the third set (p13 and p14).

And our consolation winners are:

McCann Can Triple and FanOfReds. I'll be emailing the winners to verify their addresses and prize selection.

Thanks all for playing. Next up will be my five favorite blog entries.

No, I don't think that I get to win anything.

Dale Alexander - As a Buff

A few months ago I wrote about some players that attended Milligan College. One of them was Dale Alexander. I purchased a 1933 Goudey Dale Alexander card on ebay, then had some doubts about the authenticity of the card.

Thanks to the help that I got I have decided that the card that I purchased is authentic.

I finally got around to making a card for Dale from his playing days at Milligan. Milligan College's mascot is the Buffalo. They are affectionately called "The Buffs."

Credits:

Dale Alexander Photo: Milligan College Buffalo, 1924. Archives and Special Collections, P. H. Welshimer Memorial Library, Milligan College. (Thanks to Meredith Sommers - Information Resources Librarian/College Archivist for the scanned images.)

Border: FromOldBooks.org

Buffalo Clipart: fotosearch.com

Contest Ends Today

Yep, the contest ends today. Don't forget to enter.