Cardboard Gods

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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