In case you didn't know it, I didn't until I looked at Twitter, today is Topps National Baseball Card Day. What is Baseball Card Day, just a marketing stunt put on by Topps to get people to talk about baseball cards. However, you can get a free pack of six baseball cards if you go to a participating store.
Why am I writing about Baseball Card Day, not because I want to support this made up marketing day, but because it brought back childhood memories. When I was a kid, sounds like something my parents would say, I loved baseball cards. Of course that was before I found women and video games. I would get my baseball card pricing guides, grab my stacks of cards and highlight the current prices of the cards I owned. Once a week or so I would get all of my allowance gathered together and convince my dad to take me to my local card store. Once there I would look at card after card trying to find the one card I would take home with me that day. Of course most of the cards I couldn't afford, but I loved looking at all the cards in their protective cases. For Christmas I would ask for my parents to buy me box sets of cards and was convinced that someday my collection would be worth a fortune. It never became a fortune, it instead is probably packed up in some dusty box in a garage somewhere. Today, every now and then, I will see packs of baseball cards on the shelves at a store and I will ask my kids if they want a pack. Their answer is always no. I don't think my kids have ever owned a pack of baseball cards and they may never want to in this age of electronics, but I keep hoping some day they will answer yes when I ask if they want that pack of cards. On this Topps National Baseball Card Day I won't be celebrating baseball cards, but I will be celebrating my memories of the good old days when all I cared about was a new pack of cards.
In honor of Alex Rodriguez retiring we thought we would share some of his many words of wisdom.
Thank you to BrainyQuote for compiling these quotes, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alex_rodriguez.html.
Prospect season is in full effect and because of that we have taken it upon ourselves to predict who the next unannounced call-up will be. Our winner is Aaron Judge.
In honor of Prince Fielder medically retiring we thought we would compile a list of some of the best articles written about him over the past few days.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17267384/prince-fielder-texas-rangers-emotional-doctors-told-play
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/194776282/prince-fielder-announces-playing-career-over/ http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/prince-fielder-calls-it-a-career-due-to-injury-in-emotional-press-conference/ http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/10/news/companies/prince-fielder-pay/ http://www.sbnation.com/2016/8/10/12431916/priince-fielder-retirement-press-conference-neck-surgery-rangers
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