Mark Armour

Yesterday I went to first my sports card show since 1993.

A young woman took out her phone and said “Siri, when was Roberto Clemente alive?” This worked, kept her from buying her boyfriend 1990 wax packs.

Totally not judging by the way, and I hope she found a vintage Clemente at another table.

Can’t believe that I didn’t award myself the SABR Peace Prize before I left the presidency. Embarrassing own goal.

I was thinking of building houses for the poor but lol that’s way too much work. Painting shitty pictures it is!

Don’t rub it in, Bates.

Can’t believe that I didn’t award myself the SABR Peace Prize before I left the presidency. Embarrassing own goal.

Yeah, same.

For those of you who are young and still considering whether to have children, don’t sleep on “who’s going up on the roof when you are old?”

Any interest in “stocking stuffer” of 100 Topps cards (all diff.) from 1978-80? Many available. Some stars. I just need $7 to cover box and postage. I pick cards (too much work otherwise, sorry) though I will listen to “my son loves the Yankees”. (Someone sent me huge box 20 years ago.) DM me.

Eight of the best baseball cards ever made, of @chadfinn.bsky.social ‘s good friend. #1978ToppsForever

You’re not going to bring up this whole “what is a card?” convo are you?

Thank you! So my “sister’s grandson example” is true.

Watching the Chargers game, and their running back Kimani Vidal. He is referred to as Hank Aaron’s grand nephew. Does anyone know specifically how they are related. Like “Hank’s sister’s grandson” or something? Thanks.

I have run into people in Washington state who said they saw mini only, and did not know for years that there was a regular sized option.

Guessing that in baseball Topps had a very successful product they were tweaking to wring more $$ out (it’s a business) while in football/basketball they were still trying to get there. Guessing though.

Because Topps wanted to see if they could save on printing cost and convince collectors there was no loss in the value of the product? Narrator: “This did not work.”

The next time Google Docs auto-changes “its” to “it’s” and then flags it as an error I swear to God.

I spent much of my youth waiting for 1980 Dave Stapleton to re-emerge up the dugout steps. Instead, I got an arithmetically deteriorating asset.

To each his own. As for me, I’ll keep focused on 1970 Billy Grabarkewitz.

I suppose I need to post this one too. Not sorry.

Saw Dick Enberg. I assume Scully is there. I wasn’t surgical I just saw what I passed.

Took this one for you.

Might have found some @sabrlandmarks.bsky.social today on Hollywood Boulevard? @phitter72.bsky.social @heavyjstudios.bsky.social

I did not propose a hypothesis! Fwiw, I suspect (but can’t prove) that Topps thought Americanization was a compliment, as many did (and still do). Sy Berger later said it was what all the writers called him which is (surprise!) not true.

Definitely remember this on a Red Sox message board when Lohan was approaching 18 (now approaching 40) and wondering how long the countdown might have been going on.

Can you graph the annual % so that his increased fame doesn’t swarm the data ? For 1960-64 I still get 48 to 632.

They spelled out Masanori Murakami even though he was commonly known as Masa.

Sure, that could have been the reason (though Yaz and Killebrew also had 15 letters). They called him Roberto in 1955 and 1956, then switched. Other companies figured it out.

Searching the Sporting News archive from 1965 through 1969, the name "Bob Clemente" shows up 2 times, "Bobby Clemente" 0 times, and "Roberto Clemente" 794 times. Whatever their reasons, Topps went against the grain when they used "Bob" every year from 1957 to 1969.

My set has not seen the light of day in years. Too much work to even view one, let alone 24.

19 of 20 votes.