David Wright is underappreciated. Despite having multiple MVP type seasons, he always seems to be considered “not quite” an elite player or his success is attributed to “other players” in the lineup. He has regularly been considered third among the triumvirate of third baseman that entered the league within a few years of each other, [...]
It’s cool and rainy in the NYC area today. There is no baseball on the horizon. The Hot Stove is barely lit and probably won’t catch fire for at least a couple of weeks. So what does your intrepid columnist write about? He could pick apart the putative $30 million payroll increase, but there is [...]
I picked up this 1964 Challenge the Yankees Duke Snider card last week. He is the only New York Met in the 50-card set. The cards were part of the boxed dice game issued by the Hassenfeld Brothers out of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. They marketed and distributed the game in 1964 and again in 1965 [...]