Good morning, Mariners fans. MLB has uploaded the entirety of the bottom of the eighth and top of the ninth of last night's playoff-clincher on YouTube.

Flashing back (way back) to the first meaningful M's game I attended. They set a franchise record for margin of victory on July 11, 1979, and made life easy on baseball card highlight writers! #CardSky #goms

Remember when you’re hating on #goms this is who you hating on #goms

In which I indulge in some Mariners giddiness, rescue a starting pitcher from Pitching Wins purgatory, gush about Cal Raleigh, and share a local connection to a national news story. Come for the Magic Number magic, stay to learn all the ways George Argyros was a Mighty Schmuck!

I know Dick best from his Seattle tenure & fans of that era sure did hope he'd bring some managerial magic to the Kingdome. It proved his last MLB job in the hot seat. #ImmaculateGrid #goms

Ottoline is steering the kitchen into hyperspace, again.

My posting here evolved quickly into similar pattern as the bad place: 1% personal account, 99% hobby account. If I was forced to pick one account, I suppose it would be all hobby posting here & then scream the rest into a paper bag.

Swung trade for more Spike, including 1980s print variations that only a mother could love #CardSky

Missed my first @immaculategrid.com guess in this spot today, so went wild in extra innings clicking on every guy named Jerry and finally got a match; he also grids for NYY (1941-42) & MIN ( 1943-47 Senators).

Feeling personally attacked as someone with an S.O. named "Sunny" 🫠🤪 #itsabusyweek #butstillnoneofyourbeeswax

Another @immaculategrid.com day for my man, Memo Luna. While 0.2% is a low score, today's usage might honestly be his highest possible spot.

The broader impact for work like this is hard to overstate. My peripatetic brother found real stability (career, family, etc.) outside SLC because of all the business created by Sundance. Who's to say where he'd be today without it.

RIP, Robert Redford

Video from last Thursday's SABR Boston presentation, including my search for "The Most Boston Babe Ruth card." youtu.be/CxXzSpfv400 #CardSky

Wow, I was writing about this T206 card near midnight and thought, should I allude to the New York Knights? Little did I know! :-( #RIP

15000 days ago (August 18, 1984), Braves CF Dale Murphy has five hits, including three doubles in an 8-3 win over the Cardinals. I mention this mostly so I can post a jam by the Baseball Project. Apparently Murphy has met the band and knows of the song, which is neat.

I would like to test this theory

Borderlands 4 is out and it opens with an Oscar Gamble quote. Now the circle is complete.

Number 5 watch : Harry Ford debuts with the game-winning sac fly in SEA #goms

The father from preward card business Tik n Tik passed this week, so health must be why they missed the 2025 National. Tik n Tik sold me my very first 19th century card back in 2009, opening horizons to an era that felt remote before. #CardSky www.number5typecollection.com/2009/08/1886...

am I the only one to never know the major league baseball team name "1902 Cleveland Bronchos" until today

This one can go for well over $10K these days #CardSky #TruthInAdvertising

This T206 Krause got an upside-down chunk of Jack White, probably because they fed this print sheet the wrong way for its red ink pass. It's practically Warhol!

Following Hoyt Wilhelm's Feb 1957 trade, Topps created this ersatz STL cap & lightened that Giants collar to neutral grey, starting from a photo similar to his knuckleball portrait. #CardSky

Fortunate to get these 1933 siblings of the Iron Horse before prices went nuts

1977 Kellogg’s arrival this week, with perhaps the only use of dash in D-H that I’ve seen #CardSky

Today the internet lost Maru, cat of legend, so I'm putting out an empty cardboard box for him.

Picked up this 1983 Bowie program from his Foxboro MA stop on the Serious Moonlight tour, def worth the $3

Decades later, Cal still got that pillow soft glove

The trees have appetites

A favorite wall tile from the CCC

Perhaps the best $2 and $1 ever spent, respectively

Eddie Waitkus first played ball at this Cambridge (MA) field & grew up in this corner house opposite a local fire station. His 1949 shooting by an obsessed fan inspired part of Bernard's Malamud's book _The Natural_ (1952).

“I coulda booted that grounder for waaaay less money!”

1973 Topps White Sox Eddie Fisher, later foil-stamped for pack-in. Love how Eddie's proactively amused by the stamp that arrived decades later.

In case you missed it, the recording is now up on the SABR YouTube channel. Thanks to our presenters @phitter72.bsky.social @ckamka.bsky.social and Jeff English, and PLEASE, PLEASE let Jeff know if you have any leads on a late 1970s Dave Kingman trash can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF6-...

Was stoked to receive this 1974 OPC MIN TTM last year because I love MLB and TLA. I also love that red batting glove. #CardSky

Found room in my grid heart for Four-Decade plus Obscure @immaculategrid.com Guys. Conine and Tzunami both qualified as "dudes I saw super-early in their careers."

Soaked this fragment of 1961 Topps 361 off 1960 Topps Robin Roberts. Vern Law or Hank Bauer are the best-known of that fragment's visible players. Vern (age 95) still lives in Utah, one of the few surviving guys who appeared in 1952 Topps. #CardSky

makin relics from this bug-chewed munson model bat; love the visible cross-grain and how tasty it was to those wood weevils

spend your loonie wisely #CardSky

Career WAR from Portland vs. Erie (AA) lineups on June 10, 2017. Devers is the no-doubt leader of just four future MLB players.

The survey takes about 2 minutes. Note that there are some leading questions, designed to discourage you from selecting the IRS option, e.g. if you say you want to select an IRS product, you get a pop-up explaining the costs to the IRS. But this would be far less than paying a private vendor!

The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program. We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful. The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs. www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...

Look closely to see how Goudey cut-and-pasted together this composite of Detroit’s top 1935 stars for this photo premium

Happy Labor Day! This holiday was established in 1894 to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the contributions of working people. Celebrate with us with some thematic reading, pictured below.

As a new season approaches, remember when Topps created its 1977 Mexican NFL set #CardSky

Mis-cut McRae is my personal fave

New arrival from TCDB trade! Just five to go for this distinctive set. #CardSky