Hall of Fame jersey —for toddlers
Who designed this Hall of Fame jersey? The chunky script font looks like a toddler’s uniform.
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6’3″ 220 pounds: two Hall of Famers
Today’s random featured card is John Smoltz. (pulled from a 2021 Topps Archive pack) I can’t bear to look at Smoltz staring at me all day, so I’m displaying the back of his card. Today is the first day that Astrotrain is volunteering as a cardholder. A player the same size as John Smoltz—baseball’s home
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Cubs Hall of Fame analysis by decade
According to the Cubs HOF, the greatest Cub since 1998 is Greg Maddux (even though in his three years of 2004-2006, he was 38-37 with 4.27 ERA).
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Will these two career stats get Kerry Wood into the Hall of Fame?
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
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How many scorecards are in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
The National Baseball Hall of Fame is like the U.S. National Archive with millions of items. The Hall of Fame states: The Museum’s collections contain more than 45,000 three-dimensional artifacts and 130,000 baseball cards. The Library catalogs and preserves nearly three million documents including 500,000 historic photographs and 15,000 hours of original audio and video recordings.
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Fun idea: Getting the attention of Hall of Fame players from the upper deck
I’m going to start a collection of videos of Hall of Fame players’ reactions to me yelling at them from the upper deck. We already have one in the collection, Andre Dawson.
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Google Translate’s response to: Ichiro is a Hall of Famer
Go ahead to translate.google.com and type in: Ichiro is a Hall of Famer and translate it to Japanese. You will get: イチローは殿堂入りです Now take that Japanese and translate it back into English. Look how it translates: Those Japanese feel strongly about Ichiro! You are spellbound. I know.
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