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Spike Glidden

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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.

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the 2001 Mariners gave up the biggest late-innings comeback ever to a bunch of Cleveland scrubs, it's fine it's fine

06.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of Mariners outfielder Randy Arozarena throwing out a runner at home plate

screenshot of Mariners outfielder Randy Arozarena throwing out a runner at home plate

call him Mr. Ex-ico because that runner is "past tense" #goms

06.03.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ADIOS? ADI-DOS!

06.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

MLB Catcher: the cup is my best friend

28.01.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Surprised that Chuck needed to write his #7 uniform inside the cap bill. What player would risk swiping your boss's hat? :-)

06.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Heck of a way to lay that out!

06.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Newspaper coverage of Joe Walsh's under-the-table payments by manager Frank Selee during the 1889 baseball season

Newspaper coverage of Joe Walsh's under-the-table payments by manager Frank Selee during the 1889 baseball season

Speaking of haunted, this is future HOF manager Frank Selee paying players like "Reddy" Walsh (for his red hair) off the books to keep them favorable to Frank's friends at the Boston club, should they want to sign Walsh at a future time. A number of 19th-century clubs did this.

06.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was told football season was over and that Seattle had won the footbals

06.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
1889 newspaper question and answer column that ruminates on the baseball of a decade earlier, when bettors and gamblers nearly ruined the game

1889 newspaper question and answer column that ruminates on the baseball of a decade earlier, when bettors and gamblers nearly ruined the game

1889, when sportswriters looked back on the era of sports gambling as a haunted time for baseball

06.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Sheet of New York Yankees baseball cards from 1925

Sheet of New York Yankees baseball cards from 1925

Hug is in there somewhere!

05.03.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

when i tell people from the 1980s that madonna's best film role was a baseball movie, you know i'm right

05.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Film screening announcement for the baseball classic "A League of Their Own"

Film screening announcement for the baseball classic "A League of Their Own"

heck yeah we doing this

05.03.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Meowy impressed

05.03.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A tabby cat casually leaning on a baseball book about the 1981 split season

A tabby cat casually leaning on a baseball book about the 1981 split season

Kat Vonnegut would like to share his opinion on @splitseason1981.bsky.social #KatOnKatz

05.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Control wasn’t his strong suit to start with and I suspect the stress of being signed as his new team’s workhorse had a lot to do with that poor performance.

05.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dirty Dozen

Don Mossi! Toothpick Sam! My day's complete before it began.

⚾️ Dirty Dozen 3/5/26
8/12 on Easy Mode:
πŸŸ₯🟩πŸŸ₯πŸŸ₯🟩🟩
🟩🟩πŸŸ₯🟩🟩🟩
scrimmage.sports-reference.com/dirtydozen?u...

05.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Completed Immaculate Grid trivia game with Joe Cowley in the middle square for Phillies and White Sox

Completed Immaculate Grid trivia game with Joe Cowley in the middle square for Phillies and White Sox

Dead center, a man whose MLB career should've been peaking right as it wrapped

05.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

still sixty day until the first of may

05.03.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

can't wait for #cotuitcouture

05.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Horizontal baseball card of Yankees catcher Thurman Munson tagging out an Oakland runner and home plate who's sprawling face-first with his cleats in the air. The card includes a Topps All-Star Rookie trophy.

Horizontal baseball card of Yankees catcher Thurman Munson tagging out an Oakland runner and home plate who's sprawling face-first with his cleats in the air. The card includes a Topps All-Star Rookie trophy.

Chuck Dobson is the runner, I believe

05.03.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, Otis and Campy must be terrific connections for this game.

04.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1950s Browns > Brooks Robinson > 1977 Eddie Murray > 1997 Paul Konerko might be the shortest connection from St. Louis Browns to active players today

04.03.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So close today; my fault for forgetting what Iron Man McGinnity looks like!

04.03.2026 14:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dirty Dozen

⚾️ Dirty Dozen 3/4/26
10/12 on Easy Mode:
πŸŸ₯🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩πŸŸ₯🟩🟩🟩🟩
scrimmage.sports-reference.com/dirtydozen?u...

04.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

It was interesting to see how far you CAN move off Hubbs, since he played CHC with Santo, who played on CHW with Downing, who played on TEX with Pudge Rodriguez

04.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Completed Immaculate Grid trivia puzzle for Mar 4 2026

Completed Immaculate Grid trivia puzzle for Mar 4 2026

Low 20s today, got to use three of my favorite M's, all for various reasons

04.03.2026 12:48 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

True, I was blowing smoke on that one -- but maybe a four-step move could work...

04.03.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

will they accept this payload of very hot chicken nuggets

03.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#goms #quickly

03.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Count me in for coaching connections, since that's often a more significant person-to-person link. Nice one.

03.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0