tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175643012720562094.post4430815956018137749..comments2024-02-02T13:22:02.491-08:00Comments on really bad baseball cards: Expressions of Weirdness (the Later Years)Cliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12109085007044124766noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175643012720562094.post-65163364742838785562021-01-17T14:32:32.011-08:002021-01-17T14:32:32.011-08:00Had we world enough and time, this coyness, Elliot...Had we world enough and time, this coyness, Elliott, were no crime.Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175643012720562094.post-8410547867352977672016-12-04T05:59:49.632-08:002016-12-04T05:59:49.632-08:00Cool! Thanks for the details.Cool! Thanks for the details.Cliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12109085007044124766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175643012720562094.post-80339711733772220402015-08-07T05:01:24.760-07:002015-08-07T05:01:24.760-07:00Elliott Maddox was in the first pack of baseball c...Elliott Maddox was in the first pack of baseball cards I ever bought (1971, when he was with the Senators). It was the Yankees he was with when he slipped on wet grass on June 13, 1975 at Shea Stadium (Yankee Stadium was still being renovated) making a catch in the 9th inning and tore cartilage in his knee. He didn't play again for 15 months, and was never the same. His lawsuit was unsuccessful because it was ruled that he when he took the field, he was accepting the playing conditions.<br /><br />The Yankees were so short of outfielders that weekend because of injuries that on June 15 they played Thurman Munson in left, Rick Dempsey in right, and a rookie named Kerry Dineen--in his first major league start and second major league game--in center. And they won.Jack Morrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15327107636819451554noreply@blogger.com