World Cup Contest Update

Through the Group Stage:

John Sharp:  11

Batting Out of Order:  10

bbcardz:  10

Jafronius:  10

Everybody slept on Switzerland.

World Cup

 

U.S. addresses only.

Deadline:  9:00 AM California time, June 11.

Playing for:  Two PWE of baseball, basketball, football, or hockey.  

Pick the following:

The winner of each Group.

The four semi-finalists.

The two finalists.

The World Cup champion.

If your entry does not have 19 selections, you did something wrong.  

If your entry has 19 different selections, you did something wrong. 

Scoring system:

1 point for each Group winner

3 points for each semi-finalist

5 points for each finalist

10 points for the Champion 

Nicknames I Like: MLB

Iron Horse

Big Hurt 

Charlie Hustle

Penguin

Blade

  

Splendid Splinter

Say Hey Kid

Nails

Toy Cannon

Cobra

Mr. October

Sultan of Swat

Louisiana Lightning

Blue Moon

El Presidente

Sweet Music

Big Unit

Spaceman

Mad Hungarian

Wild Thing

-  Not a definitive list, obviously.   

-  Williams had the nickname before Major League came out.

-  Photos from TCDB.

-  I have all these cards, with two exceptions.  Feel free to guess the two for bragging rights.   

Cool Cards / Stanky Team

I got this topic from Not Another Baseball Card Blog who got it from Shlabotnik Report.

Anyway, let's gaze at some Cowboys cards that are in my collection.

-  That's a '69 Renfro.  Hall of Famer, 10 Pro Bowls, etc. 

-  Hayes won 2 Gold Medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics and then had a Hall of Fame career in football.  

-  Staubach served in the U.S. Navy and was stationed in South Vietnam during the war.

-  White saving his team a roster spot.  

-  I do like the art cards.

-  Haley with an illegal hand to the face. 

-  Emmitt praying he gets traded to the Eagles.  (The highlight was breaking the all-time rushing TD record.)

-  Witten and Lamb:  good players who don't bother me other than them being Cowboys. 

-  Bland is from Modesto and attended the first high school I attended.  A couple years after me.

Quick Poll

Was the last year of the junk era for baseball cards 1994 or 1995?   

Seen 'em

Starting Line-Up

1.  Rickey Henderson - R - DH

2.  Tony Gwynn - L - RF

3.  Barry Bonds - L - LF

4.  Mike Schmidt - R - 3B

5.  Jeff Bagwell - R - 1B

6.  Joe Morgan - L - 2B

7.  Mike Piazza - R - C

8.  Barry Larkin - R - SS

9.  Kenny Lofton - L - CF

Starting Rotation

1.  Steve Carlton - L

2.  Tom Glavine - L

3.  Curt Schilling - R

4.  Johan Santana - L

5.  Jake Peavy - R

Bullpen

Trevor Hoffman - R - Closer

 

Goose Gossage - R - Righty Set-Up

Dave Righetti - L - Lefty Set-Up

Francisco Rodriguez - R - Bridge

Dennis Eckersley - R - Long Relief

Bench

Ted Simmons - S - C

Pete Rose - S - U

Chase Utley - L - 2B

Scott Rolen - R - 3B

Jimmy Rollins - S - SS

Robin Yount - R - CF / SS

Ichiro - L - RF

-  Two cards means I saw the player play for both teams.

-  My memory for specific games sucks, so it's possible I omitted a deserving player.  But I know I didn't see Rivera when I saw the Yankees at Petco and I'm about 90% sure Jeter was injured.  So I don't know who's making this team other than a starting pitcher.

-  I don't call for blog bat-arounds, because readers can use my ideas whenever they want as long as they're not monetized.  But this would be a good one, I think.  At least for the starting line-up, if not the whole team.  Ha.

-  Card images from TCDB, per usual, and all are cards in my collection.