NPR’s Mike Pesca brought me into the studio to discuss my post about my neighbor and his brother’s baseball cards, and did a nice job crafting it into a story for “All Things Considered.” Have a listen here, and feel free to make fun of my (subconscious) attempt at the NPR voice.
 
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Update: Here’s this story revisited for NPR. Near the end of winter my neighbor’s younger brother died unexpectedly. Emily and I are friendly with our neighbor, and offered him our condolences. But we don’t really know each other, for all the usual city reasons that you regret on one level but mostly look past while you’re [...]  35 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Bill Dillman, Moment of Silence, Team History, The Holy Books Anyone who knows Dan Quayle knows that, given a choice between golf and sex, he’ll choose golf every time. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue arrives in my mailbox every February to no particular anticipation or fanfare. Certainly its contents are well put together, and I wouldn’t argue they don’t merit an objective hubba-hubba! and a [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, Amado Samuel, Baseball Cards, Brooklyn Decker, Bud Harrelson, Dan Quayle, Dominican Republic, Frank Taveras, Jose Reyes, Kathy Ireland, Kathy Ireland in a Mets Cap, Marilyn Quayle, Mets Cap, Mets Pop Culture, Mets shortstops, Sammy Samuel, Sports Illustrated, Swimsuit Issue, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Tony Fernandez Here’s another sign of spring for you: 2010 Topps Baseball is out. I know, it’s February. That’s the way things go these days — the first series of cards arrives in the dead of winter, weeks before anyone even shows up in Florida or Arizona, with a couple of cup-of-coffee rookies adorning their first cards (Tobi [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Josh Thole, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books Perhaps you’re familiar with the story of Jackie Robinson retiring rather than accepting the last transaction Walter O’Malley arranged for him, a trade to the Giants for Dick Littlefield. The very thought! Jackie the ultimate Dodger going to the hated rivals! GASP! No wonder he quit! Actually, Robinson had already decided to retire from baseball after the [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, New York Giants Longtime readers of this blog know of my quixotic pursuit of a decent picture of Al Schmelz, former Alaska Goldpanner and briefly a New York Met, along with many other momentary ballplayers in the bizarre 1967 campaign. There were 54 1967 Mets — 35 making their team debuts — and those 54 players managed 61 wins, [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Al Schmelz, Alaska Goldpanners, Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, The Holy Books In a better world, many more of these would be Bisons cards. Oh well. Commentary here. People who think computers play baseball will say the Angels are down 2 games to 1. But computers don’t play baseball. And when you have a teammate like Derek Jeter, and you see the way he goes about his business and how calm he is after a game like that, it’s like you’ve won. So [...] One never knows how loyalty is born. I’ve learned from friends of the recent passings of two former Mets, early ’60s starting pitcher Carlton Willey and 1976 cameo catcher Jay Kleven. I never saw Willey pitch and I remember Kleven more from name than deed, but each man brings to mind the special bonds we [...] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Carlton Willey, Jay Kleven, Moment of Silence, The Holy Books In my part of Brooklyn the news of A-Rod’s confession had to take a back seat to something far more important: the arrival of 2009 Topps Series 1. They’re great, and not just because it’s early February and I’m gasping for baseball like a trout expiring in a bucket. Last year’s Topps cards were a disaster, [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Rickey Henderson, The Holy Books |
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