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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“I am from the poor people, I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don’t know what suffering is.”

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Dewitt Menyard began getting noticed at South Bend Central High School IN. 1967 He was drafted by the Houston Mavericks of the ABA. Only played 1 season (1967–68) 71 G AVG: 9.1 Pts., 7.8 rebounds & 1.2 assists per game. Got him to the 1968 ABA All-Star Game #nbasky #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Fun fact. Alex Hannum was the 1st coach to win titles in both the NBA and ABA: NBA: St. Louis Hawks (1958) & Philadelphia 76ers (1967) ABA Championship: Oakland Oaks (1969) #nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

1979 NBA Finals MVP Dennis Johnson. Seattle’s Gus Williams and Johnson scored more than half of the Sonics points in the series #nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Talk about a steal. Dennis Johnson was drafted as a late 2nd rounder (29th) from Pepperdine in the 1976 draft. #nbasky

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Mark Armour @markarmour04.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

BREAKING: Public Launch of Satchel Paige Project marklaurencearmour.wordpress.com/2084-2/ There is a short explainer on my website, then you click on the map and see where it takes you. Please pass this around to anyone you think might be interested

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The Satchel Paige Project

Intro Since late 2023 I have been on a quest to log every pitching appearance in the extraordinary life and baseball career of Satchel Paige. From age 19 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to oldtimers gam…

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

At #SABR53, we talked about the evolution of baseball cards from hobby to big business with the legend Dr. James Beckett, industry insider Rich Klein, and Paul Rogers. Listen to highlights here: sabr.org/latest/sabr-... @sabrbbcards.bsky.social

On Saturday, June 28, 2025, the Beckett Baseball Cards Panel was held at SABR 53 at the Westin DFW Airport Hotel in Irving, Texas. Panelists included, from left: Rich Klein, Dr. James Beckett, and moderator Paul Rogers.

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Now those were the days. To be honest, I loved it. Don’t ever wish it to comeback but it was spectacular #HomeRunDerby #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I always liked negro league photos of the busses they rode in. This one has Josh Gibson (far right) with Satchel Paige next to him Greenlee Field advertised on the bus was an interesting place. William Greenlee,a racketeer,built that baseball park in 1931 even though the Great Depression was going

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Paul Arizin was a early master of the mid range jump shot “It came by accident. Some of the games were played on dance floors. It became quite slippery. When I tried a hook my foot would go out from under me, so I jumped. My feet weren’t on the floor so I didn’t worry about slipping” #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

“He was agile & quick & played aggressive defense really well. He positioned himself well…A lot of people beat on me & said they played great defense. Nate really did” Kareem Abdul-Jabari on Nate Thurmond #Cardsky #NBAsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Interesting fact Bernard King’s 1984-85 season he averaged 32.9 pts per game From 1975-76 to 2004-05, Michael Jordan & George Gervin were the only others that averaged more than 32.5. Jordan did it 5 times I know the pic is not his Knicks season but I don’t have that card😀 #Cardsky #NBASky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“Olivia hits pitches instead of pitchers. He doesn’t even bother to learn the names of the hurlers” —Max Nichols Sporting News This was based on Tony Olivia questioning what kind of name is Mudcat. Olivia got his opening day hit off Mudcat Grant in 1964. #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“I would always like to be be above where I am as far as recognition. I think because I didn’t have many of the major accomplishments like winning a championship. But when I look at my stats I feel like I can match up with anybody” Artis Gilmore #CardSky #nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Little beat up on the corners but I’ll take it for a nice addition today #cardsky #nbasky

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Cecilia M. Tan @whyilikebaseball.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Aww. Scott Simon or @npr.org said such nice things about SABR in this interview with Eric Poulin, editor of HERE COMES THE PIZZER: Found Poetry of Baseball Broadcasts. "There's not an institution on the planet I admire more than SABR." substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Two guys in a video conference, caption reaads "the vaunted Society for American Baseball Research"

Two guys in a video conference, caption reads "There's not an institution probably on this planet that I admire more than"

Two guys in a video conference, bookshelves and art in the background, and the caption reads "and I'm not forgetting Medecins Sans Frontieres and the United Nations, okay?"

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

“Jackie Robinson is the loneliest man I have ever seen in sports.-Sportswriter Roger Kahn, from his The Boys of Summer”

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sad #cardsky comic

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Do you know something? We never have a bad practice. A lot of teams guys don’t come in focused & ready to give an effort & do what’s needed to help you get better everyday” Mike Schuler pointing to Sidney Moncrief “He doesn’t allow that to happen” #nbasky #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Was looking at these PTS & TRB from the 1957-58 College year with these 3 Elgin Baylor 32.5 PTS, 19.3 TRB Oscar Robertson 35.1 PTS, 15.2 TRB Wilt Chamberlain 30.1 PTS, 17.5 TRB #Nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“I have no illusions, I use to get asked this question probably 10-15 years ago probably longer, who was the best player coach Knight had? It ain’t even close, Isiah is so much better than anyone they had” Quinn Buckner #HoosierSky #NBASky

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Tom Morello @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Audioslave’s “LIKE A STONE” hits the top 10!! 21 years after it’s release, “Like A Stone” climbed to No. 10 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart—the highest Audioslave has ever been on that list. The song also has over 1.3 billion views on YouTube. I know Chris Cornell would be very proud.

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Little bit of trivia Legendary Cowboys scout Gil Brandt visited George McGinnis in Bloomington to try and talk him into entering the NFL draft #hoosiers

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“I was surprised their GM talked to me about being a player coach. He said to me, ‘You run the show anyway.’ I looked at him & said “You know, you’re right” Lenny Wilkens #nbasky #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“I learned more from Lenny Wilkins than I learned from anybody I ever played with. Because of my injuries & I was losing a step I was able to play another 8 years in the league because of him. Because he showed me how to play” Austin Carr #nbasky #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

1/2 Lenny Wilkens worked for a grocery store as a freshman in HS. He was sent one day on a delivery to Jackie Robinson his surprise #nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Always was a cool photo to me Chicago White Sox at the Royal Gorge Hanging Bridge in Fremont County Colorado on their way to spring training in San Francisco 1910

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Never understood a baseball movie list that this was not at the top 😂

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

“Baseball has to be a great game to survive the fools who run it” Bill Terry 1933 Goudey Wish I owned but not from my collection #cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

1971 NBA announced its 25th anniversary team Here they are sorted by position •F Bob Pettit •F Dolph Schayes •F Paul Arizin •F Joe Fulks •C Bill Russell •C George Mikan •G Bob Cousy •G Bill Sharman •G Bob Davies •G Sam Jones •Coach Red Auerbach #nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.-Manager Leo Durocher” #Cardsky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Cool cards but at a loss for putting these big cards in a binder #Cardsky

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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The largest paying crowd in the history of Wrigley Field was the day Jackie Robinson made his debut. Wrigley is the only park left Jackie played a game in. Mike Ryoko was a kid at that ballpark that day and he wrote about it. Take a minute and read this today. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

A newspaper clipping from Mike Ryoko part one:

Jackie's Debut a Unique Day
All that Saturday, the wise men of the neighborhood, who sat in chairs on the sidewalk outside the tavern, had talked about what it would do to baseball.
I hung around and listened because baseball was about the most important thing in the world, and if anything was going to ruin it, I was worried.
Most of the things they said, I didn't understand, although it all sounded terrible. But could one man bring such ruin?
They said he could and would. And the next day he was going to be in Wrigley Field for the first time, on the same diamond as Hack, Nicholson, Cavarretta, Schmitz, Pafko, and all my other idols.
I had to see Jackie Robinson, the man who was going to somehow wreck everything. So the next day, another kid and I started walking to the ballpark early.
We always walked to save the streetcar fare. It was five or six miles, but I felt about baseball the way Abe Lincoln felt about education.
Usually, we could get there just at noon, find a seat in the grandstand, and watch some batting practice. But not that Sunday, May 18, 1947.
By noon, Wrigley Field was almost filled. The crowd outside spilled off the sidewalk and into the streets. Scalpers were asking top dollar for box seats and getting it.

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I had never seen anything like it. Not just the size, although it was a new record, more than 47,000. But this was twenty-five years ago, and in 1947 few blacks were seen in the Loop, much less up on the white North Side at a Cub game.
That day, they came by the thousands, pouring off the northbound Ls and out of their cars.
They didn't wear baseball-game clothes. They had on church clothes and funeral clothes·suits, white shirts, ties, gleaming shoes, and straw hats. I've never seen so many straw hats.
As big as it was, the crowd was orderly. Almost unnaturally so. People didn't jostle each other.
The whites tried to look as if nothing unusual was happening, while the blacks tried to look casual and dignified. So everybody looked slightly ill at ease.
For most, it was probably the first time they had been that close to each other in such great numbers.
We managed to get in, scramble up a ramp, and find a place to stand behind the last row of grandstand seats. Then they shut the gates. No place remained to stand.
Robinson came up in the first inning. I remember the sound. It wasn't the shrill, teenage cry you now hear, or an excited gut roar. They applauded, long, rolling applause. A tall, middle-aged black man stood next to me, a smile of almost painful joy on his face, beating his palms together so hard they must have hurt.

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When Robinson stepped into the batter's box, it was as if someone had flicked a switch. The place went silent.
He swung at the first pitch and they erupted as if he had knocked it over the wall. But it was only a high foul that dropped into the box seats. I remember thinking it was strange that a foul could make that many people happy. When he struck out, the low moan was genuine.
I've forgotten most of the details of the game, other than that the Dodgers won and Robinson didn't get a hit or do anything special, although he was cheered on every swing and every routine play.
But two things happened I'll never forget. Robinson played first, and early in the game a Cub star hit a grounder and it was a close play.
Just before the Cub reached first, he swerved to his left. And as he got to the bag, he seemed to slam his foot down hard at Robinson's foot.
It was obvious to everyone that he was trying to run into him or spike him. Robinson took the throw and got clear at the last instant.
I was shocked. That Cub, a hometown boy, was my biggest hero. It was not only an unheroic stunt, but it seemed a rude thing to do in front of people who would cheer for a foul ball. I didn't understand why he had done it. It wasn't at all big league.
I didn't know that while the white fans were relatively polite, the Cubs and most other teams kept up a steady stream of racial abuse from the dugout. I thought that all they did down there was talk about how good Wheaties are.

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Late in the game, Robinson was up again, and he hit another foul ball. This time it came into the stands low and fast, in our direction. Somebody in the seats grabbed for it, but it caromed off his hand and kept coming. There was a flurry of arms as the ball kept bouncing, and suddenly it was between me and my pal. We both grabbed. I had a baseball.
The two of us stood there examining it and chortling. A genuine major-league baseball that had actually been gripped and thrown by a Cub pitcher, hit by a Dodger batter. What a possession.
Then I heard the voice say: "Would you consider selling that?"
It was the black man who had applauded so fiercely.
I mumbled something. I didn't want to sell it.
"I'll give you ten dollars for it," he said.
Ten dollars. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know what ten dollars could buy because I'd never had that much money. But I knew that a lot of men in the neighborhood considered sixty dollars a week to be good pay.
I handed it to him, and he paid me with ten $1 bills.
When I left the ball park, with that much money in my pocket, I was sure that Jackie Robinson wasn't bad for the game.
Since then, I've regretted a few times that I didn't keep the ball. Or that I hadn't given it to him free. I didn't know, then, how hard he probably had to work for that ten dollars.
But Tuesday I was glad I had sold it to him. And if that man is still around, and has that baseball, I'm sure he thinks it was worth every cent.

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“If Walton (Bill) had chosen to play on the 1972 Olympic team, I don’t think any kind of officiating would have let the Russians win the gold medal, & his not playing for his county left a sour taste in my mouth, & in many others” Bobby Knight who helped Henry Iba #HoosierSky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

All 3 former Giants as the card say. Little bit of trivia #CardSKY #stlcards

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Ben Lindbergh @benlindbergh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is the first episode of a 3-part scripted series for @ewpod.bsky.social that I've been working on for more than a year. It's about mysterious trailblazer Ella Black, the first woman to write about baseball for a national publication. Hope it makes you half as consumed by her story as I've been!

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Charlie Neal, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Stan Musial & Willie Mays at the 1959 All Star Game Los Angeles

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons posing with Chicago Native & future journalists/author Edwin Diamond at the inaugural All Star Game, Comiskey Park Ruth would hit the 1st home run in All Star Game history

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

What I thought was a cool dog at work turned into a shining sort of photo…….

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“I felt nothing. Nothing.-Hall of Famer Ted Williams, when asked what he felt upon hitting his final homer in his last big league trip to the plate”

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“Now Bill, I don’t expect you to win anything” Jack Kent Cooke to Bill Sharman on his hire. Sharman said he was brought in to rebuild the Lakers by ushering in a new era 1972 Lakers had other ideas #nbasky

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Boston Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks for the 1961 finals on this day back in 1961 securing their 4th championship #nbasky www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/19...

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PacersMike (Mike Harvey) @pacersmike.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Does not care about my Pacers game……

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