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.
There was no more famous Baltimore Oriole than Babe Ruth. The 19 year-old got his start with Jack Dunn’s Birds, and between Dunn and catcher Ben Egan, Ruth quickly developed into the hottest pitcher in the minor leagues. However, competition from the Federal League led Jack Dunn to sell his greatest find, causing a lifetime of resentment and the reason why he would hold on to so many of his stars long past the time they should have gone to the major leagues. […]
In 1951, Ted Kluszewski was mired in a batting slump that threatened his once promising career. Then one evening his wife, Eleanor, had a solution that would save both her husband’s and countless other ballplayers’ careers. […]
After recovering from one of the worst batting slumps in baseball history, Gil Hodges finished up his comeback 1953 season in a unique fashion: joining a mostly Black team for a 36-game tour deep into the Jim Crow south. […]
In late 1927, New York Giants manager John McGraw shelled out $10,000 to buy minor league pitcher “Irish Jack” LeRoy. However, the 22-game winner was not Irish, nor was his name Jack LeRoy… […]
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! […]