.301 lifetime.  521 HR.  1704 RBI.  Sure first ballot HOF’er.  EWC salutes Frank Thomas, who announced his retirement Thursday.

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Japanese Baseball Cards — An English Guide To Baseball Cards From Japan  linked to EWC in a post today concerning Wally Yonamine cards. The author apparently just finished the Robert Fitts biography on Yonomine  and posted a short review along with some jpgs of cards from different points in his career. Follow the link above [...]

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Don “Ears” Mossi, forever the #1 on baseball’s all-ugly team.   It’s a little known fact that Mossi’s .990 career fielding percentage was the highest of all-time at the time of his retirement.   EWC salutes the legend.

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I was a mere 3 months old when this card was issued, but Oscar Gamble has been the inspiration for the name of one of my two annual roto teams for the last 6 years. That team is part of the storied Phat-o-matic league, a roto league of ruthless passive-aggressively polite yet cold-blooded [...]

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If you were a card collecting geek like I was growing up in the 80’s, you doubtlessly remember the priceless ‘F-ck Face’ Billy Ripken card that scandalized the collecting community to its foundations. Parents were shocked. Kids giggled. Some vendors indignantly refused to sell the card. Who would think ballplayers used profanity? The card’s value [...]

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