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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 8h

Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-...

Cover image for SABR’s “Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945,” edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 10h

Me: "Anything I can bring on my visit next week?" Folx: "Oh no, we have everything we need to you to fix right here!" (I was asked to "fix" the M's shutting down their Roots Sports Network last time I was there.)

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 10h

Happy birthday to my dad, who first brought me to an M's game in 1979, and best wishes to all who knew Dave Niehaus as their baseball dad. #goms

Three pale people posed with the Dave Niehaus broadcast memorial statue at the Seattle baseball park

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 23h

Brother ain’t that the truth

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of my favorite research threads from this year, including the newspaper "wrong Porky Ryan" correction for multiple men known by that name in their town.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Come join us in 25 minutes. I’ll post the link when we go live. It is free. ❤️

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was fortunate to test Griffey’s first game for Nintendo back in the day; my name was used for Marlins OF Darrel Whitmore, and hope he doesn’t hold it against me 😜

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Washington Nationals in-person service staff was terrific, would do again.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shelburne Museum in Vermont includes a rebuilt New York townhouse with the family’s original art, all wrapped inside a Gothic plantation exterior. Quite a mental shift, inside and out.

Fancy wooden bedroom table with an original art painting by Degas of a dance class. The room has dark green walls and various decorative dishes on the table.

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Jason M (same name on X) (here since the beta!) @sanjaromin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Mariners fam, don't forget that our friend @MarinersDwnUndr made a great Rick Rizzs tribute episode on his amazing podcast. Check it out, give him a follow & subscriber to his podcast 👇 #TridentsUp

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Ticonderoga paddle boat that's on display as a museum in Burlington, Vermont, has an H&B on display in the crew bunks. Couldn't get close enough to see the model name, so imagining it as Rip Wheeler or Steamboat Williams

a wooden baseball bat on display on a sailor bunk next to a magazine that's open to a Montgomery Ward ad

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Escape Boston’s rainstorm and lucked into a Vermont exhibit of Norman Rockwell covers, including the iconic baseball image

Four covers of the Saturday Evening Post painted by Norman Rockwell, including the baseball scene where umpires decide whether to call a game for rain

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's better to be the hunter than the hunted, especially when the thing you're after is a large burrito.

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wishing a happy 9/25 to anybody celebrating Dolly today…

Colored-pencil card drawing of Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raised my eyebrows to learn via a 1942 issue of Muncie's local paper that Cincinnati's Ethiopian Clowns, an exhibition club of that era, went to Muncie to take on its local team, a squad that signed future football HOF Weeb Ewbank as a short-term ringer. Muncie won 7-0.

Newspaper coverage of a 1942 ballgame between a traveling negro league baseball team and a local Muncie team. It shows a group photo of the traveling about descriptions of who would play in the game and some recent history of the traveling team.

News clip described Weeb Ewbank's role in a 1942 baseball game for the local Muncie Indiana team.

Box score of the June 4, 1942 baseball game between the traveling Clowns team and local Muncie team. The Muncie team won this game 7-0.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At the moment, I'm regrettably not having cappuccinos and croissants in a quaint café in Vienna, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

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Claudia Lamb @claudialamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We only have a few hours left to prepare for the 21st night of September!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I could change one thing as a paying @immaculategrid.com and B-R subscriber, it would definitely be my ability to keep using Terry Blocker.

Immaculate Grid board excerpt that shows former Atlanta player Terry Blocker matching for First Round Draft Pick and sub-3 ERA season

Ad blocker pop-up for the Sports Reference website

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Picked up some 1965 issues of New England Journal of Medicine on a lark and they're now the earliest XOGRAPH photos I've owned. A microorganism picture was inserted into the journal binding and its image used the distinctive 3D-like printing tech later made famous on baseball cards. #CardSky

An image microorganism diagram from the 1965 New England Journal of Medicine in black and white. It's credited to Pfizer, who's advertising a drug related to what's shown.

A simulated 3D color image of a microorganism from the 1965 New England Journal of Medicine. It's credited to Pfizer, who's advertising a drug related to what's shown.

1970 baseball card in simulated 3D that shows Ty Cobb as the sport's "Greatest Left Fielder." The back has a footnote circled in red that credits the card technology to XOGRAPH.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The massive concrete envelope of Seattle’s Kingdome prepped me in unexpected ways for loving baseball stadiums in all their chaotic glory elsewhere. Even their security’s weird prohibition on wandering between sections of less than 10k fans total taught me about goofy stadium fiefdoms.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This early post reflects how hobby time marches on. As first written, my 1961 Peters Meats #5 Don Mincher profile linked out to a dedicated 1954 Bowman baseball site & two solo sellers that have since closed, plus my old URL watermark style. www.number5typecollection.com/2009/09/1961... #CardSky

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1961 Peters Meats Minnesota Twins #5, Don Mincher

Major League Baseball felt their foundations shake throughout the 50s and 60s, as franchise moves and multiple waves of expansion shifted th...

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

my cats would like to offer you some extremely low stakes fisticuffs

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Breaking: Lenny Randle and the Ballplayers will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

A blue-heavy cover for Lenny Randle's musical single in the early 80s. He's shown in a variety of poses, including his infamous moment of blowing a ground ball into foul ground as a member of the Seattle Members.

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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lunchtime readers and the easily distracted: My essay on the Cape Cod League umps who got to work in the majors during umpire strikes in 1978-79 has been posted to SABR’s website. Feast your eyes: sabr.org/journal/arti...

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My relationship with streaming music can be distilled as almost two decades of Pandora trying to convince me that I love Hot Chip and me saying every time that I do not, in fact, love Hot Chip. But who knows? Maybe you will. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Chip

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Hot Chip - Wikipedia

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Help I’m at Rush and need eye plugs for my eyes

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spam job listings like this are a kick because the current hiring market is so twisted that the "+1 more" is just as likely to be a GIF of Garth saying..."not" -- and knowing who Garth is also means you're too old to be considered for the position.

Bulleted list of proposed job pay range and working benefits from a role at Netflix. The range is comically high, up to 460,000 dollars, and the benefits are conventional health insurance and time off, with an unspecified "+1 more" at the end of the list, which invites you to speculate whether it's something interesting or just something that could have been added to this list as a normal last item.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today I got a legendary name that's even more entertaining when it's miscut #CardSky

five baseball cards on a table that include Pete LaCock miscut to look like he's on the Orioles

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Aaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 13/09/2026

A reminder that there are DVOA score projections for every game at FTN for subscribers. They'll be updated Sunday morning with the latest injury data from The Predictors. ftnfantasy.com/stats/nfl/dv...

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DVOA Game Projections

Predictions for every NFL game using DVOA. FTN's DVOA projections pick the winner of every game, as well as the projected final score.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tagging myself as Matthew Sweet - In Reverse

A large number of compact discs stacked so their spines are visible

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jesse Owens statue in downtown Cleveland, and born this day in 1913

Jesse Owens statue in metal and bronze on a pointed star base and surrounded by park on a sunny day. This statue is placed in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Apparently today is #NationalVideoGamesDay, so here’s a Pitfall Harry rookie card, 1982 Topps style.

Colored-pencil card drawing of Harry swinging over a pond of crocodiles

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Surprise Topps baseball content at tonight’s Louisville Bats game

Baseball fan wearing a Topps baseball card shirt and holding a hound dog on a leash. A pale man with glasses stands at right.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Friends, please speak with a doctor if you spend more than 3 nights per week shambling through the catacombs beneath crumbling castles, looking for the bones of ancient kings to snack on.

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

speaking as someone whose middle name is Woods we are going to need a ruling on "Woods Richardson" as his middle and last name or compound last name

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thinking about how many pre-WWII teams let their coaches or manager play in late season games to help the young guys via on-field example (or to replace vets who stopped caring)

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Lazaro Montes is the sixth player in Mariners history to homer in his MLB debut, joining: 2019 Kyle Lewis 2006 Kenji Johjima 2004 Greg Dobbs 1984 Alvin Davis 1983 Jamie Nelson At 21 years and 314 days, Montes is the youngest on the list

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Spike Glidden @number5typecard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

They say you can’t go home again but what if your old neighborhood now has the Dr. Seuss museum & sculpture garden, what then, haters? #LoraxWins

A pale blonde woman wearing blue casual clothes and posing with the life sized Cat in the Hat statue inside the Dr. Seuss museum

The original working desk of Dr. Seuss with a tilted tabletop, red stuffed chair, and various art visible around the room

Bronze sculpture of Dr. Seuss and several of his creations in the Springfield Massachusetts sculpture garden

Woman lying on a park bench and reading from a paperback book with a blue arch outside the Dr Seuss museum visible in the distance

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