The Infinite Baseball Card Set is a never-ending card set of baseball’s forgotten heroes: Negro League legends, barnstorming mercenaries, semi-pro sluggers, blacklisted bums, foreign phenoms, bush league oddballs, and the famous before they were famous.
From semipro sandlots to the big league World Series, if your ball club needed a victory you put out the call for Win Ballou. For more than a quarter century this quirky relief pitcher from Appalachia consistently lived up to his name. […]
The Infinite Baseball Card Set loves to focus on “Outsider Baseball” – the players and teams outside the parameters of Major League Baseball. In this piece you’ll meet a different species of outsider – the outsider mascot! […]
Roy “Tex” Sanner’s 1948 minor league season was one for the ages: winning 21 games while also taking home the Triple Crown for batting. So why did Tex Sanner not appear in a single major league game? […]
On Friday, September 2, 2022 the Louisville Bats (Cincinnati Reds AAA) and SABR will honor the Negro Leagues and Felton “Skipper” Snow. Here’s the story of the baseball card I did of Felton Snow and the solving of a Blackball uniform mystery… […]
The energy-sapping weight loss programs the St. Louis Cardinals’ coaches insisted on seemed to block any success Steve Bilko hoped to achieve in baseball – that is until a minor league manager left him alone to do what he did best: hit the ball. […]
Come talk baseball with me in my first in-person book signing in what seems like decades! […]
While most fans know of Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, there are still some fantastically talented players who, for some reason or another, have been completely left out of the history of the Negro Leagues. You are about to meet one of them… […]
When the teenage Orestes Miñoso approached the manager of the Ambrosia Candy Company baseball team for a tryout, little did he know that it would be the beginning of a career that would span four countries and last seven decades. […]
In 1913, millionaire Emory Titman was told by his doctor he had 12 months to live. Pledging to live life to its fullest, Emory set about spending every last nickel on banquets, boxing, broads, and his favorite, BASEBALL! […]
Since 1952, it had been accepted that Johnny Britton and Jimmie Newberry were the first Black ballplayers to play pro baseball in Japan – that is until an all-star team of researchers rediscovered the mysterious Jimmy Bonna… […]