Cardboard Gods

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Cardboard Gods Has Moved!

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The earth-shakingly urgent matter of assigning textual matter to my childhood baseball cards will continue on at Baseball Toaster. Today...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Pete Broberg

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I. "This is not a photograph - no (This is not a photograph) And these are not the Elysian Fields (This is not a photograph)” –Mission ...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Bob Gibson

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This card marks Bob Gibson’s first and last appearance in the world of my Cardboard Gods. Like a lot of other 1975 cards, this one is a litt...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Ron Reed

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Yesterday I watched basketball and wrote some more about The Basketball Kid. I don’t know if I really got anywhere with the writing, but at ...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Basketball Kid, Part 2

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So who is The Basketball Kid? Well, on one level he is the persona invented for me by my friend Ramblin’ Pete just a couple days ago, on the...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

The Basketball Kid, Part 1

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Here is a photograph of me holding with sarcastic ferocity the two league runner-up trophies my brother won while serving as a benchwarmer o...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Grant Jackson

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In my current job as a proofreader of educational testing materials, I am often called upon to check the spelling and grammar of math proble...
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

The Cardboard God All-Stars

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Is there a word for the feeling you get when you realize the syndicated sitcom rerun you’ve been hoping to burrow into for a little while, a...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

Dale Murray

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For my first few years at the liquor store, I worked mostly evening shifts, usually with a guy named Dave who’d been at the store since his ...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Willie Stargell

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If one’s employment experiences could be transposed into baseball card statistics, the back of my own card could serve as a polar opposite t...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

Jeff Burroughs

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I don’t know where the Jeff Burroughs Louisville Slugger we had at the liquor store came from. I also don’t know where it went when the stor...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007

Dave Kingman

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The Dave Kingman Report: At-Bat #1 I would like to introduce a feature that I plan to revisit periodically here on Cardboard Gods. But first...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Tom Hutton

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In Donald Honig’s Baseball Between the Lines , 1940s Yankees standout Tommy Henrich is asked about Al Simmons, a fearsome hitter from the la...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Ron Santo

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Here’s Ron Santo’s last card, the only Ron Santo card I own. It will probably look a little jarring to Ron Santo fans, who are accustomed to...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

Tommy John

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Mes·mer (mĕz'mer), Franz or Friedrich Anton 1734–1815. Austrian physician who sought to treat disease through animal magnetism, an ea...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Harmon Killebrew

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I don't know much about baseball card collecting, but I am familiar with the term mint , which is used to describe cards that have been ...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Dennis Johnson

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No cards today. Below is a link to a clip of one of the two or three happiest moments of my sports-watching life, and it would have been a n...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Doc Medich

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On December 11, 1975, Doc Medich was traded for Dock Ellis. Though I’ve come to understand that these two individuals differed considerably,...
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