Almost all the content on 57hits.com was deleted. Many of the blog posts had just a few sentences trimmed at the end of the blog post, so I didn’t notice it for 11 months. But my most favorite series of posts, the Chicago Cubs World Series scorecards, got hit the hardest. Ten posts detailing all …
The sweater that Steve Stone wore while announcing Kerry Wood’s 20-strikeout game on May 6, 1998. I want that sweater. Maybe. Just maybe if I do a reverse Google image search, it might come up. Initially, these are the results. Ok, that’s kinda cool. But these are not sweaters. Google automatically added the search term …
Finding Steve Stone’s sweater for the Kerry Wood 20-strikeout game Read More »
Take a baseball card, write a postal address on it and slap on a stamp. Will it mail? Inspiration struck me today to try mailing a baseball card like a postcard. A bunch of loose opened baseball packs are stuffed in my desk drawer at home. Shuffling through the cards, I tried to find one …
What would you do if were a minor league prospect, and Topps produced only one card of you? It would be fun to go around trying to autograph every one of those cards in existence. Drafted in the 3rd round of the 2016 draft, White Sox prospect Alex Call currently has one baseball card—2016 Bowman …
The Cubs postseason rally was held in Chicago today. The Cub’s radio station, The Score 670, hosted the rally with a live broadcast through the day. (I live-blogged the event with a dozen photos). One part of the event in particular stood out—when Ryne Sandberg looked at my World Series scorecards an autographed one for …
Ryne Sandberg enjoyed looking at my World Series scorecards Read More »
670 AM Score’s offices are in my building at the Prudential Plaza. Today they doing a Cubs postseason rally in the lobby from 5am to 6pm. Today I’ll live-blog this show throughout the day. And I’ll tweet the updates on Twitter. 8:45am I walked in this morning and Ron Coomer was doing a show, sitting …
Cubs postseason rally in Prudential lobby from 5am to 6pm Read More »
The Chicago Cubs official podcast was great. The official Cubs beat reporter, Carrie Muskat, would give great insight into the team. They aren’t super long—just 7 to 15 minutes. The perfect length. Most other Cubs podcasts are too long. The hosts end up chatting and bla bla BLA BLA. Carrie got to the point. But …
14 MLB teams stopped updating their official team podcast since March. Read More »
The Chicago Dogs released their uniform designs today. Folks, we have a wiener—as in WINNER. Thankfully, their home hat features just the hot dog logo. No baseball, no words. Back in August, I blogged about they should put just the hot dog on the hat. Does the entire logo belong on a baseball hat? I’m …
Tonight will be the third game with Kris Bryant being out of the lineup. Since getting hit in the head by a pitch, Bryant has been day to day. It’s a bit scary not knowing how long Bryant will be out. Not just for his bat, but just him as a person. For his personal …
What if every Cubs player on the roster started one game at third base? Read More »
Beckett reports on the popularity of this card: This is the story of the 2011 Topps Update Mike Trout Rookie Card, a trading card that isn’t yet eight-years old, but is rising in price and stature right before our very eyes. This is the story of a trading card with no ink autograph, no memorabilia …
A regular issue Mike Trout card selling for $250 Read More »
The Chicago Cubs have named Chris Denorfia as Special Assistant to the President/General Manager and Matt Murton as Baseball Operations Assistant. Chris Denorfia played for Cincinnati, Oakland, San Diego, Seattle, and the Cubs from 2005 to 2015. He was also a minor league regular from 2002 to 2017. Matt Murton played outfield on and off …
How does a MLB player transition to an office worker? Read More »
What MLB player looks most like you? Pick any player from the history of baseball at any age. Drawing a blank? Here’s how you can find your baseball player twin! 1. Your photo Find an photo of yourself wearing your favorite team’s clothing. Preferably this photo will be taken at the ballpark. For this example, …
Kerry Wood is on the 2018 Hall of Fame Ballot for the first time. Kerry had such great potential with his amazing rookie year, notching 20 strikeouts in his fifth start. A future Hall of Famer? Then the injuries struck. He missed his entire sophomore year with Tommie John surgery. During his career Wood was …
Will these two career stats get Kerry Wood into the Hall of Fame? Read More »
I’ve been so tempted to keep score in a vintage scorecard. It would be so cool to fill score a famous game in the actual scorecard of that time. But many of the old-time scorecards featured a ton of ads surrounding the score boxes. I love drawing pictures and adding text to the margins of …
Idea: using the ads on vintage scorecards to call out highlights of the game Read More »
The Cleveland Indians have gone 69 years without a championship. The Dodgers last championship was in 1988, 29 years ago. When the Astros won this year, it broke a 55-year draught. All these teams with such long championship draughts. Is this normal? I’d say so. There are 30 teams in Major League Baseball, and only …
The average MLB team has to wait 25 years for a World Series championship Read More »
