Absolutely THRILLED to pick up these bobbleheads representing my all-time favorite team, the 1985 Cardinals! Crazily, I found someone up here in Michigan selling the set for just $10 and I jumped on it! Already have a perfect spot for them in my office! Go crazy, folks! Go crazy! #StLCards

Each Veterans Day, my thoughts inevitably drift to one veteran in particular. That said, thank you to all (both alive and departed) who have answered the call of duty and faithfully served our country. May each of us live our lives in such a way that honors their service and their sacrifice. 🇺🇸

That World Series was wonderful and I'm heartsick for Toronto. What a great season. You guys were so good and so fun.

I have all the Cardinals pocket schedules from 1968-current. I’d love to know what kind of quirky things do you collect?

Thanks so much to my friend & fellow Webster Groves Statesman, Alex Hyde, for sending me a card of Statesmen Hoops great, Courtney Ramey! Definitely a nice addition to my Webster Groves High School Alumni Collection. We’ve had some good ones through the years, and the frame is getting full! 🎩🧡🖤

Four years ago today was an extraordinarily good day. 🔔 Thankful for God’s blessings and care, both during Jack’s three-plus years of treatment, and in the four years since.

Always fun to get a TTM return. Especially so when players also take the time to answer questions. And even more so yet when that player is 1952 AL MVP, Bobby Shantz! Mr. Shantz just celebrated his 100th birthday last week. Thanks so much to him for being such a friend to baseball fans everywhere.

The other day, I picked up these signed 8x10s at the LCS. They specifically caught my eye because among the autographs my grandmother got in her autograph book (polyturf.blogspot.com/2017/08/gran...) almost 90 years ago were Mickey Owen and Johnny Mize!

My kids got me a Jackson Merrill bobblehead for my birthday. Glad to add him to my office bookshelves! #MerrillMadness

Happy birthday to Mark McGwire (62) and Jeff Reardon (70). I was fortunate enough to be on hand both when Big Mac hit #62 and when Reardon set the MLB career saves record. Two great baseball memories!

Even in enemy territory, it’s fun to visit statues of all-time greats. I have the deepest respect for all of these Cubs legends. Three of them (Ryno, Fergie & Williams) were kind enough to reach out to my son when he was ill, and Harry is a fellow alum of Webster Groves High School! 🎩🧡🖤

At the game so I had to stop off to say hello to my fellow Webster Groves High School alum! #HolyCow #WeAreWebster #StLCards #ForTheLou

Wearing my powder blue #51 Willie McGee jersey, I had to visit Ryno. Felt like a young Bob Costas should have been on hand to do the play by play.

$10 well-spent at the LCS: A pair of 500-card 1988 Topps vending boxes plus nearly 40 other cards out of the 10 cent boxes (that he ended up not charging me anything for). #CardSky

Once, when I was 6 or 7, my mom took me to a game and Mickey Mahler signed the back of my scorecard. It was the first autograph I ever got. I long ago lost it, but I was thrilled to get this #TTMsuccess from him today! Also appreciate him answering some questions. #CardSky

Fun #TTMsuccess adding a pair from one of my personal favorites, Andy Van Slyke! A member of my all-time favorite team (the 1985 Cardinals), he was traded for Tony Peña on April Fool’s Day of 1987, and the joke was on the Redbirds because he went on to become a star.

Two big games in college football this week: -The renewal of THE BORDER WAR, which finds its roots in literal warfare over 160 years ago, boasts 120 (nearly perfectly divided) battles on the gridiron, and has been on hiatus for 14 years. -The weekend’s only matchup between ranked opponents.

There may not be many folks in Michigan working on a Mike Shildt PC, but I can testify that there’s at least one! Mike’s my guy! #CardSky

OTD in 1977, my very first childhood hero slid into second base in San Diego…and slid into history, breaking Ty Cobb’s record that had stood for a half-century. The legendary Jack Buck (another one of my heroes) was on the call.

#Mizzou great and NFL Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow!

91 years ago today, in Barrio San Antón in Carolina, Puerto Rico, Luisa Walker and Melchor Clemente had a son. He would go on to become “The Great One,” a nickname that refers not only to his considerable talents, but also to his status as a humanitarian.

Thanks so much to #Mizzou football legend and 1985 AL All Star, Phil Bradley for signing my card! He was QB for the first Tiger teams I remember, and his best baseball season just happens to be my favorite one too (see @HeckOfAYear on Twitter). 🐯 MIZ

Thanks to Ben Oglivie who signed my card and answered questions about his best manager (Harvey Kuenn) favorite teammates (Molitor & Yount) and pitchers he found difficult to hit (None! You have to have confidence.). A 3x All Star, he hit 41 HR in 1980 & 34 for the 1982 AL champs. #CardSky

Fun #TTMsuccess: Thanks so much to the winner of the 2024 SABR Burdick Award, the Diamond King himself, Dick Perez! #CardSky

Thrilled to get my card signed by 1964 World Champ & fellow Webster Groves High School alum, Charlie James! Charlie also played football at Mizzou, setting a single-season school record for receptions by a running back that stood for 34 years! #CardSky 🎩🧡🖤+🐯🖤💛

#TTMsuccess today from Juan Gonzalez. Dude was such a stud for a decade or so back in the 90s. Do any of my fellow #StLCards fans remember his brief spring stint with the Redbirds? #CardSky

Fun trip to the LCS! #CardSky

One of the stops on my son’s baseball trip was DC. While there, he picked me up a bobblehead of the ten dollar founding father without a father. Funny…the bobblehead doesn’t look much like Lin-Manuel Miranda… 🤔

Took a trip down Memory Lane and put together this digital collage of the old autographs I got at games as a teenager back in the 80s. A lot of great memories wrapped up in these cards! #CardSky

OTD in 1999, Big Mac hit #500 (& 501), while Tony Gwynn got hit #2,999. Man, I was hoping he’d get one more! Got lucky to click on the big swing, and to get the pic on the right too, as the #500 didn’t stay up there long!

#TTMsuccess from the inimitable Bill “Spaceman” Lee, whose autograph is apparently making it clear that in 2025 he is indeed on Earth. He responded to a couple questions and even threw in a beer recommendation. Love the look of his 1979 Topps card, especially signed. #CardSky

#TTMsuccess from the inimitable Bill “Spaceman” Lee, whose autograph is apparently making it clear that in 2025 he is indeed on Earth. He responded to a couple questions and even threw in a beer recommendation. Love the look of his 1979 Topps card, especially signed. #CardSky

Excited for my son who goes to Fenway today for game one of a baseball trip with two of his high school buddies. 33 years ago, I took a similar trip, and one of the highlights was seeing Jeff Reardon set the MLB career saves record! Squint and you may just see @markarmour04.bsky.social in the pics.

Excited for my son who goes to Fenway today for game one of a baseball trip with two of his high school buddies. 33 years ago, I took a similar trip, and one of the highlights was seeing Jeff Reardon set the MLB career saves record! Squint and you may just see @markarmour04.bsky.social in the pics.

This dark, low res photo popped up in my Facebook Memories today. It might just be my favorite pic from all of Jack’s years playing baseball. Taken at a hotel in 2017, it captures the joy of playing ball with friends better than any on-field photo of them, and it makes me smile each time I see it!

Fun #TTMsuccess: Many thanks to 1970s Mets southpaw, Jon Matlack. Looks great on the horizontal card, IMHO. #CardSky

The Lou Brock career Sports Illustrated run.

#TTMsuccess Thanks so much to Oriole great, Jim Palmer! In the 1970s, if you needed someone to win 20 games AND model underwear for your ad campaign, he was most certainly your man.

#TTMsuccess: Thanks so much to Jim Lonborg, whose kindness & consideration are apparently paired with notable humility (see his answer to question two). And how perfect that Dave Parker was mentioned alongside The Mick on the very weekend that The Cobra was inducted into the Hall!

Love picking up a special “Career Cappers of the 1980s” set of customs from Gio over at “When Topps Had Balls” (whentoppshadballs.blogspot.com)! Very well done! Which one is your favorite?

Six years ago Ryne Sandberg sent this to my son when Jack was battling leukemia. Just last month I sent Ryno a letter thanking him again, letting him know that Jack was now doing great, and assuring him that I would be praying for him. So sad to hear the news about him. 😢

#TTMsuccess: Though I grew up a Cardinals fan, I also always enjoyed those explosive Don Coryell Chargers teams, and Hall of Famer Charlie Joiner was a big part of that! Thanks so much to him for not only signing, but for answering my questions!

Forty years ago today, my boyhood hero, Lou Brock, was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame! A great player and an even better man, he’s still my guy! Here’s a sample of some of the “Lou” items in my collection…

OTD in 1884, Bill Grahame was born in Owosso, Michigan (near the Flint area where I now live). He would go on to pitch for the St. Louis Browns from 1908-1910. The oldest card I own, I purchased it about five years ago because I had always wanted one from the famous T-206 set. #CardSky

$7 well-spent at the LCS. #Collect #TheHobby #CardSky

C visited a friend in Boston this weekend and brought me back the absolute best bobblehead!

SO INCREDIBLY excited to add this one to my collection! I don’t dabble much in really old cards, but have long wanted an Earl Averill, so when I saw this 1933 Goudey super cheap, I grabbed it. Trimmed, but still awesome in my opinion. My first card from that set and it’s a Hall of Famer! #CardSky

Popped up in my Facebook Memories from 10 years ago today. Definitely one of my favorite Facebook posts that I’ve ever posted. (In case you didn’t already know, I’m quite easily amused.)

Dropped C off at the airport last night then got to have a delightful dinner on a beautiful evening with an even more beautiful date. Life is indeed good.

BREAKING: Public Launch of Satchel Paige Project marklaurencearmour.wordpress.com/2084-2/ There is a short explainer on my website, then you click on the map and see where it takes you. Please pass this around to anyone you think might be interested