🐓 Happy birthday to the man, the myth, the legend, #PeteLaCock, a player who gave new meaning to the old saying "talk softly and carry a big stick." He was just about as good as you get at AAA in 1974, hitting a hard .327/23/91 with the #WichitaAeros. But his bat was pretty

🏄‍♂️⚾🌴 Across 14 Major Leage seasons with the Red Sox, Orioles, and Indians, #BradyAnderson racked up 210 home runs, 761 RBI, and a .256 career average, spending most of his career as a fan favorite in Baltimore’s outfield. But if you were there in the 1990s, you may recall

What do former (sometimes outstanding) pitchers #FrankTanana and #RickReuschel have in common? Well, it's true they both have more than 200 wins and 2,000 strikeouts, which is no small accomplishment for anyone. But interestingly, Reuschel and Tanana also are the only pitchers

🫧 #KurtBevacqua turns 79 today. And of course, he's perhaps best-known for his Bazooka-blowing prowess thanks to this legendary 1976 #Topps baseball card. For a guy without much of a bat, Bevacqua managed an impressive 15-season big league career despite never logging 300

🍖 Little did we know until this morning that former big league pitcher and 1983 National League All Star #AtleeHammaker is the father-in-law of fellow one-time All-Star catcher Yan Gomes. We're not sure if this means they toss a few innings at family Thanksgiving gatherings, but

💰💸 Is it crazy to think that #PhilPlantier could be a $10–15 million‑a‑year slugger if he played in today’s game? His baseball cards were on fire for a while in 1991, and Boston once believed he was the next big thing. For a guy who wasn’t especially big, Plantier packed

🦏⏳ 44 years later and it still stings for #Phillies fans. On January 27, 1982, Philadelphia shipped off young prospect #RyneSandberg along with #LarryBowa in exchange for #IvanDeJesus - a move that remains one of the most painful “what‑ifs” in franchise history. Bowa was 36

🎷⚾ Who is #DaveSax? Of course, some of you may remember he's the older brother of lauded #Dodgers second baseman #SteveSax who barely got a cup of coffee in the Majors with Los Angeles and Boston. But if you ask Steve, legendary hitting coach #WaltHriniak, his former high

It's June 11, 1962 and the Indians are playing the Red Sox in Boston. #TitoFrancona (the elder) is on first and the bases are loaded, the game is 0-0 and Earl Wilson is on the mound for the Sox. As the pitcher goes into his windup, Francona yells "Hold it, Earl!" and Wilson

🧦⚾ Sometimes, as the old saying goes, "the check is NOT in the mail," and that's a good thing if you're #CarltonFisk. Because you know, by 1980, all Fisk had done for the #BostonRedSox was win Rookie of the Year honors, go to the All-Star game 7 times and pretty much establish

For every team there are dark times for fans, when the hometown ballclub just can't seem to post a winning record for years on end. In Cleveland, that period from was pretty much the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, plus the early part of the 90s. Even during a 30-year stretch of

💘🕺⚾ Alas, #BobbyValentine's Day comes but once a year. Let us recognize this occasion in the manner in which Bobby would have wanted - with baseball cards, bubble gum and ballroom dancing (Bobby was apparently a very skilled ballroom dancer back in the day). Most of us

🐶 February 16, 1989 - #OrelHershiser becomes baseball's first $3 Million Dollar Man. Coming off a storybook season that saw him set a still-standing Major League record of 59 consecutive scoreless innings pitched (it's actually 67, but record keepers don't count the 8 shutout

🤏⚾ We still feel #MannyMota is the greatest pinch hitter in the history of the game. While he no longer holds the all-time mark for pinch hits, having since been surpassed by Lenny Harris (212) and Mark Sweeney (175), Mota's 149 pinch hits and lifetime .304 average stand as

💨⚾ It took #DaveStewart a LONG time to find his groove. He came up in 1978 and it wasn't until 1987 that he emerged as one of the top 5 starting pitchers in the American League, anchoring Oakland's rotation during their late-80s, early 90s glory years. A lesser man would have

🎂 We had this 1981 #Topps #BillGullickson when we were kids and were convinced he must be destined to be a huge star. If you set the rookie record with 18 strikeouts in a game, you might be the second coming of Nolan Ryan, right? So, we kept this card and every other Bill

🐦⚾ On February 25, 1972, the St. Louis Cardinals made one of the biggest trade blunders in franchise history, although it didn't seem nearly so bad at the time. A 27-year-old #SteveCarlton had just come off the first 20-win season of his career and had asked for a $10,000

🏈🕺 It's time to dance and do the #IckeyShuffle in honor of former #CincinnatiBengals star running back #IckeyWoods' 60th birthday! If you're old enough to remember the Bengals' #SuperBowl season in 1988 remembers Ickey as one of the biggest and flashiest young stars in the

1986 was probably the finest season of a very fine career for #Dave Righetti. He set a then-Major League record for saves with 46 for the #Yankees that season with a 2.45 ERA and earning his first of two consecutive All-Star appearances. But even the best have bad days, and

March 20, 1973 - #RobertoClemente, who died in a plane crash just months earlier, is elected to the Baseball #HallofFame by the Baseball Writers Association, receiving 393 of 424 possible votes. Our question is, who are these writers who voted AGAINST Clemente, probably one of