The 12 Worst Baseball Cards of All Time

I'm really just "phoning in" this blog update; shame on me. I'm just giving you a link . . . but it's a dandy!

With no further ado:

The 12 Worst Baseball Cards of All Time

Favorite Sports Cards

76 Reasons to Love Collecting Sports Cards

Gonna turn you on to a cool link here in a sec. The link is to a page called 76 Reasons to Love Collecting Sports Cards. But first I would like to add two other reasons to his 76 reasons.

Reason 77: Finding cards you have never seen before that belong to a set you collected as a child.

Reason 78: Learning the grim reality that you are lucky to get 20% of what Beckett guides say your cards are worth; but looking on the bright side, maybe that knowledge somehow gives you some kind of an edge in some of your card dealings.

Now here's the cool link promised:

76 Reasons to Love Collecting Sports Cards

Favorite Sports Cards

Save? Closure? Quick kick?

"Closers" are to baseball what Hungarian-born, soccer-style field goal kickers were to football. In other words, not much.

Just let one of today's bullpen guys try to explain to Old Hoss Radbourn (above) about their one-inning "heroics" and closures. Hoss would turn over in his grave and probably have a nice puke while he was at it.

And there's no need for the one-inning guy to show off his gold chain to Old Hoss, either, because Hoss would likely just pulverize it into a lipful of snuff. And don't even get me and Hoss started on these starting "pitchers" who can't even get through nine innings, due to a chipped nail or a run in their hose . . .

As for field goal kickers, why not just go ahead and punt the damn thing? Better yet, why not quick kick as old Bud Wilkinson would have ordered way down yonder at OU? Points for a field goal? Are you kidding Old Hoss? No more points for field goals. No more field goals period.

Now go and explore Old Hoss Radbourn's career figures for complete games.

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