Video's up from our @sabrbbcards.bsky.social session with Jeff Katz! Great articulation of Jeff's thought process, followed by detailed Q&A with a record number of attendees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXYn... #CardSky

Pleasing arrivals today, one hit for my signed Grand Slam set and speedy TTM return from Franklin TN's own William Van Landingham! #CardSky

For #cardsky, a small post of all fall TTMs because I've sorta stopped sending out requests. njwv.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/f...

SABR Baseball Cards virtual event this Thursday with @splitseason1981.bsky.social and @number5typecard.bsky.social. Members should check email for registration link. Non-members can message @number5typecard.bsky.social or @heavyjstudios.bsky.social before Thursday 6 PM ET.

I planned for relentless Escape from New York references but

If there was a Dave Niehaus version of this

Vintage Mariners fans learned this word far younger than most

Happy 90th birthday to Dodgers great Sandy Koufax! Check out stories, essays, and memorable game recaps on Koufax's life and career from SABR: sabr.org/e-books/sand...

I was summoned for jury duty, sat as a candidate, and sent home after that day's one available case was filled and didn't need me. I posted a photo of water bottles set aside for jurors & mentioned that I drank one while there. Someone criticized me for taking water intended _for jurors_.

March 30, 1903: My great-grandfather Ralph Glidden appears in newspaper coverage of a new Bankers Baseball Team, who sought Boston area opponents for play that season. #baseball #history

Longtime Seattle weatherman Steve King offered me to help me kick a gumball machine until it gave my quarter back

Time machines exist #NewportRI

New on the blog! Andrew Sharp talks autographs and authentication. sabrbaseballcards.blog/2025/12/28/g...

We turned Immaculate Grid into a league. Play grids, meet new people, and have some fun competition. Season 3 sign-ups are OPEN: forms.gle/89Y2dXHfuKYC...

The stockings were stuffed with Cooperstown stars, plus solid guys like Dewey and Granny, known both here and afar(s) #CardSky

a Christmas card for anyone who needs it #CardSky

The best Cozy Dolan (1895-1906) fits today’s whole top row!

Xmas eve has progressed to meme time

Now decking our halls with Billy Idol www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSG... #NowPlaying

Treated myself to 1993 packs at a Nashville store. Fitting how I got two Jim Gilliam, as their ballpark is on his eponymous street! #CardSky

Checking something off the ol’ bucket list, “world’s largest cedar bucket” #Tennessee #BucketList #Puns

Fricking “neighbors” who park across multiple street spots, you ain’t no real neighbor of ours

Born December 23rd, 1955, today is Keith Comstock's 70th birthday! He made this outstanding card at AAA Las Vegas and played 6 MLB seasons and according to Keith he was released in 5 different countries. We talked about Keith back in 2022: 1988toppspodcast.blogspot.com/2022/01/keit...

There are two lions inside you. One is named Murfreesboro and the other is Tennessee.

Had a good show. Also felt like I was being phased out as a collector. #cardsky nightowlcards.blogspot.com/2025/12/we-v...

Here’s a new series. The first installment focuses on two all-time great 1980s sets. #CardSky

Hitting whiffles to the raccoons with my brother in Nashville, pretty much a perfect afternoon

Into the boxing ring? It must've been almost impossible to keep Babe Ruth focused on baseball back in the late teens.

N. G. Moser's camera covered many subjects and won an American Photography contest in April 1916 with this candid, "Which is the counterfeit?"

Remarkable 1912 US naval baseball image by longtime military photographer N. G. (Norbert George) Moser from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Looks like a hot grounder headed toward center field.

For our SABR Black Sox newsletter, Leman Saunders has a terrific profile of two young batboys for the 1919 White Sox — one of whom, Bill Downes, went on to be an NFL referee for 25 years and Chicago's aviation commissioner under Mayor Daley. sabr.org/research/bla...

Cambridge connections to @brattletheatre.bsky.social screening of The Natural (1984) for Robert Redford's retrospective. I knew local boy Eddie Waitkus helped inspire its story, but it was news that he also appeared in Pride of the Yankees (1942)! www.number5typecollection.com/2025/12/the-...

Olive Thomas died of accidental poisoning in Sept 1920, helping date several "penny paper" strip sets, plus others with similar designs. Her last movie was "Everybody's Sweetheart," which does look charming. #CardSky

i think it's important to know that, in my family, "looking out for number one," is code for "i got us seats on the aisle so that we can easily use the restroom."

20th anniversary of our friends' annual cheesecake party last night. How far would YOU drive to eat some spicy chai cheesecake?

Time for Topps to lean in to all the Yastrzemski misspellings! #CardSky

"I'm just about out of timut pepper...ok to use powdered bieber instead?"

In case you missed it, this fantastic SABR session is now online! #CardSky youtu.be/TnHfC72Z1v8

SABR Virtual: Hall of Fame Baseball Card Collections w/ Jason Schwartz, Susan Lulgjaraj, Nathan Cook #cardsky | #collect | #THEhobby

Because I’m bored: Professional Athletes as Public Transit Vehicles

Updated post on 1912 baseball sets featuring players from Fenway Park's inaugural season! That year also marked their crosstown rival's change from "Rustlers" to "Braves" and noted the final MLB games pitched by Cy Young. www.number5typecollection.com/2012/03/fenw... #CardSky

New CDC guidance just dropped

Recalling those childhood days in Snoqualmie when canoes replaced cars on local streets 😬

Unused Pepsi Jr. Mariners game ticket that was canceled due to 1981 baseball work stoppage. It ended up inside a book of my dad’s for decades before rediscovery during COVID, an altogether different “work stoppage.”

Discovered a favorite one-album band did three more songs for a soundtrack back in 2000 & it’s Christmas come early for me music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH9I...

As our friends at Boston Duck Tours like to say... QUACK QUACK FLEET WIN. 🗣️

What's your favorite season? 1. the cold one 2. the one with plants 3. the sweaty one 4. the one with decay and monsters

Late night research into Goudey's 1933 holiday season advertising via America's copyright office. Here's hoping all of these scenes were respectful! #CardSky

Fun discovery from prewar #CardSky: Goudey's Gum Car with penny gum samples hit Philly in Oct 1929, replete with their "brownies" (pointy-capped elves). Also mentioned, future National Chicle founder Alvin Livingston, then a Goudey sales manager in Chicago.