Spike Glidden
@number5typecard
Baseball and trading card hobby writer, creator and researcher of Number5TypeCollection.com. Vice Chair of SABR baseball cards events committee. #GOMS. As for my house, we will serve Humpy the Salmon.
Got both Cozy Dolan gents into today’s grid, plus some legendary nicknames like The Barber and Toy Cannon and The Prince of Havana
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An eBay alert for "1904 Sporting Boiler" just found this cool piece. Harry ("Cozy") Dolan was a significant local player raised where I live now. His best stats season was on this Cincy squad & he sits in the front row. Not worth $1250 to me, but fun to see something so rare. #CardSky
It's been a while since grid day for my avatar, Memo Luna. Biffed once by misreading CIN 2K hits as BOS 2K hits.
next Notable Subjects preview, the Legendary League Park of Cleveland, home to baseball of all kinds since its conception. Highly recommend visiting its museum & memorials when you have a chance, plus check out the stairs that so many walked to take the field. #CardSky
next Notable Subjects set preview, a Hall of Fame pioneer who SABR honored with this new headstone in recent years; this set recognizes a few other SABR projects like it #CardSky
Glasses on! And wow, I don't think that 3D image generator website that I just used has been updated since 2010.
next Notable Subjects set preview, whose original photo of Cy Young strolling is thanks to a Cleveland superfan of that era; more about the fan in the card’s online story #CardSky
larger Notable Subjects preview, as received from my printer, who banded each stack together like a champion 1970s shoebox collector; hard to pick a favorite so far #CardSky
And for his fans up north! Wow, my original write up was...2009. Time does pass. www.number5typecollection.com/2009/06/1933...
Notable Subjects set preview, 16A — Joe Jackson. This set focuses on Cleveland and Ohio baseball figures. #CardSky
Funny that my brain immediately thought of a guy who it _wasn't_, but I understood my gut reaction when I saw these two stretches in his long career
Seeing cards rubber-banded in a box sure takes me back. Looking forward to getting these collated. #CardSky