Drew Davis

Pulled these from packs 15+ years ago and thought “who the fook are these guys?”

Excited to see them matchup tonight. Keeping my son up to watch

Dick Allen slashed .292/.378/.534 for his career

If you lowered each by 30 points, the ONLY men to achieve .262/.348/.504 during Dick's era are all first-ballot Hall of Famers (Clemente was a special election).

It's crazy that he wasn't in already.

In 2016 Phillies public address announcer - the legendary Dan Baker - invited me to join him at the PSWA dinner. We sat with Gene Garber, Bill Giles, Larry Christenson, and Richard Allen jr.

Dan introduced me to "Froggy" - the man who has spearheaded the campaign for years.

OPS+ leaders for every 10 year span in history - published in Dick Allen, The Life and Times of a Baseball Immortal: An Illustrated Biography in 2017.

This is a great story & I love kids getting involved, but this was the centerpiece to the campaign for 10 years before their teacher came up with it

35 minutes into a 45-minute drive to my daughter’s swim meet, my wife—riding shotgun and awake the entire time—turns to me and asks:

“Which way did the directions take you?”

We’ve been on the same journey, but apparently not the same trip.

The star power of the ESPYS has fallen off

9 years ago today, our then 2 month old met his namesake - Ryan Howard.

Through some luck and good fortune, he’s gone on to have some moments with other Phillies MVPs - including last night’s AS MVP Kyle Schwarber

Pretty cool how the WNBA's biggest star participates in the signature event of their all-star weekend.

My daughter's summer swim regular season wrapped up today. Went 13-1 in her individual events. In the lone loss she broke a team record.

1st
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2nd, broke team record
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She's 11yo and returns to the same age group next year. Helluva season.

How about “A Capella” from the 2009 Camden Riversharks?

Just missing a hyphen, but Mr Alt-rock needs in

Carl Yastrzemski got a hit off 59 year old Satchel Paige in a MLB game.

Mike Yastrzemski pitched in a game started by 43yo Justin Verlander.

That’s Old Yaz vs. MLB’s oldest ever and Young Yaz with MLB’s oldest now.

Baseball is generational, weird, and perfect

And here we are on Larry Doby Day. Seventy-eight years ago today, Doby joined the Cleveland Indians in Chicago. As I wrote in "Our Team," it was a momentous day in the American League but a devastating one for Doby.

Holy shit! That’s incredible. I never put that together - that is absolutely something right up my alley. Awesome.

This may be my favorite trivia item ever - only "may be" since I didn't come up with it first :)

Awesome stuff

Buddy Lewis was a 22-year old 3B for the Senators that day. He'd finish the season with a career total of 753 hits (only Cobb has more before age 23 with 765)

3 years serving in WWII changed the trajectory of his career.

He lived long enough to respond to me about Lou Gehrig day in early 2000s.

My 9th grade science teacher had a boa constrictor named Larry after him

Dan Baker has called 86 different MVPs to the plate in his career.

In every season since 1965(!!!) at least one MVP had Dan call them during their career

51 men have won the award at least once since 1990. Dan has called 50 of them (Juan Gonzalez the only missing)

Harry Kalas and Jesse Cole - two of the most popular men in baseball history - have similar origins to their love of the game

I saw a podcast with Cole and immediately thought of Harry / Mickey Vernon.

Both stories are awesome. Take a couple minutes and watch.

77 years ago today - Babe Ruth bids farewell to Yankee Stadium.

He uses Bob Feller’s bat to lean on in his weakened state. Feller inscribed the photo and wrote a letter to me about the day.

She hasn’t stopped hitting since this… has fielded and pitched well all year.

Just heard from the coach - She’s been chosen for the all-star team.

0-first 6 games to all star in 3 weeks. Huge glow up. So freaking proud.

For a warm Rolling Rock and an Autozone Sandwhich

I see these things and immediately think of @treblaw.bsky.social

New favorite

Messing around with my favorite 80s rookie cards to use their Fleer and / or Donruss photo on the Topps design...

Game also featured a first-inning HR by Phillies starting pitcher, Randy Lerch

There have been 1st inning HRs by pitchers since. But not one by a pitcher hitting 9th in the order in the top of the first.

Yesterday was the anniversary of one of my favorite baseball moments.

That 23-22 Phillies game featured a relief pitcher (Donnie Moore) hitting a 1st inning triple.

A lot has to happen to get a relief pitcher to the plate in the 1st. Love it.

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