First foul ball I ever caught at a minor league game came off the bat of Fernando Ramsey when he was with Winston-Salem a year or so later. IIRC he was a sprinter on the 1988 Panamanian Olympic team

I know, they’re Comcast. They were my internet provider until we finally got fiber. It was a poor attempt at a joke

I don’t know why they call the arena “mobile”? I’ve never seen it move

Hey, when else are they going to check their email?

Hanshin Tigers legend. Seriously though, his was a very sad story.

Hanshin Tigers legend

Cards From Kenny On Saturday, I received another envelope that Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy)  was kind enough to send me from Japan.  As I always say, I'm not sure...

Mail day! Another Zippy Zapping from Japan japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/04/card...

Gimmie a pack!

Card Of The Week April 19 I trying to decide on a topic for this week's "Card Of The Week" and I noticed that Chusei Mannami had hit his league-leading eight home run...

Card Of The Week - Chusei Mannami is leading NPB in home runs and I discovered a couple of his cards use the same photo japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/04/card...

Get him on the podcast!

A roundup of NPB set announcements from the last month or so japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/04/team...

Hit me! Hit me! Hit me!

Amazing Free At Noon from @wxpnfm.bsky.social with a solo acoustic show from Bleachers

Thomas Jefferson

We’re making a trip to my aunt and uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary in Iowa in June and will swing by Wisconsin to visit some of my wife’s family as well as stock up on New Glarus

New Glarus beer?

@realfollowers.bsky.social

So what does the Lady Of The Lake give Nick to signify that he’s King Of Topps?

There’s also the 1974 Topps All Star cards. Not to mention BBM’s 9 card puzzles for Ichiro, Hideki Matsui and Hideki Irabu in their 1995 set and Masaki Saitoh and Akira Etoh in their 1996 set. Tomy had 5 9 card puzzles in their 1994 set and there were a few in Sports Graphic Number sets in the 10’s

Justin and Ben Verlander

I live in a suburban/rural area and it’s constant

1976 YouTube video by The Baseball Project - Topic

Inspired a great song by @thebaseballproject.bsky.social youtu.be/CTCmFtk76Wg?...

Card Of The Week April 12 I wanted to highlight two things that happened this past week in NPB.  I decide to use Epoch One cards for both events. On Tuesday, pitcher ...

Card Of The Week - a couple interesting pitching-related events last week japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/04/card...

@rahrahraina.bsky.social Need a battle of the bands between Mariachi El Bronx and Chuck Prophet & His Cumbia Shoes

2008 BBM Rookie Edition card of Sho Nakata

2017 Fighters Legend Series card of Sho Nakata

2023 Calbee Series Two card of Sho Nakata

2024 BBM 2nd Version card of Sho Nakata showing one of the few times he got on base that season

Retirement post for Sho Nakata japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/04/sho-...

Just read this and your Ochiai piece and there's a connection I never realized before with Inao and Ohgi being former Nishitetsu Lions players and never having been "managed tightly". Both of them had an uncommon managerial approach that Ochiai, Nomo and Ichiro all thrived under.

He appeared in the 2009 WBC as a catcher and the 2017 and 2026 ones as a pitcher

If you see this drop a hero with a sword

Pretty sad that the best factoid they could come up with for him is that he hurt his knee in the minors