A customer walked into a shop and said he needed a thick toploader for a card he pulled from a box he bought there a "while" ago...
It ended up being this 1/1 Clayton Kershaw Game-Used MLB Logoman from Topps Museum Collection 😮
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Setting a new franchise high at 98 wins late in September is an absurd milestone. Putting together that kind of regular season consistency across six months is incredibly tough to sustain
Ruth noticing how much bigger the gloves had gotten since he played and joking that you could catch a basketball in one is such a great detail amid everything happening around him that day
"The Babe was the last to come in.
He had on a dark suit and a cap oyster white.
He walked slowly with a friend on either side of him.
He paused for a moment and them he recognized someone and smiled and stuck out his hand.
They did not crowd him.
When someone pointed to a locker, he walked to it and it was quiet around him.
When a few who knew him well walked up to him, they did it quietly, smiling, holding out their hands.
The Babe started to undress.
His friends helped him.
They hung up his clothes and helped him into the parts of his uniform.
When he had that on, Ruth sat down again to put on his spiked shoes, and when he did this the photographers who had followed him moved in.
They took pictures of him in uniform putting on his shoes, for this would be the last time.
“A glove?” he said.
“A left-handed glove,” someone said.
They found a glove on one of the hooks.
It was one of the type that has come into baseball since the Babe left:
Bigger than the old gloves, with a mesh of rawhide between the thumb and first finger, and the Babe took it and looked at it and put it on.
“With one of these,” Ruth said, “you could catch a basketball.”
The Babe handed the glove to someone and someone else handed him a bat.
He turned it over to see Bob Feller’s name on it and he hefted it.
“It’s got good balance,” he said.
“And now—”
Mel Allen’s voice said, coming off the field.
They were coming to cheer the Babe now.
In front of him the Indians moved back, and when they did the Babe looked up to see a wall of two dozen photographers focused on him.
Babe Ruth stood up and the topcoat slid off his shoulders onto the bench.
“—George Herman,” Mel Allen’s voice said.
“Babe Ruth!”
The Babe took a step and started slowly up the steps.
Babe Ruth walked out into the flashing of flashbulbs, into the cauldron of sound he must know better than any other man."
"Down Memory Lane with the Babe."
W.C. Heinz.
"New York Sun", June 14, 1948.
Babe Ruth’s last appearance at the Yankee Stadium.
Ruth died of cancer two months later.
Walking away from Woody Hayes to win a national title on the diamond, then sneaking your first big-league hit past Mickey Mantle in his final year is about as cinematic as a 16-hit career gets
Woody Hayes told the Cincinnati kid he’d make a fine offensive guard. He walked out, took a baseball scholarship instead, and helped Ohio State win its only College World Series title in 1966 (All-CWS team, 3 RBI in the championship game).First big-league hit: grounder that got by Mickey Mantle at Yankee Stadium in Mantle’s final season. Only career homer: also at Yankee Stadium, off Mel Stottlemyre.62 games, 16 hits, 1 HR, perfect fielding in limited innings. Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame, 2022.Some careers aren’t measured in WAR.
“Rusty” Nagelson turns 82.
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The NEW LOOK Philadelphia 76ers🔥
Sixers death lineup:
— VJ Edgecombe
— Tyrese Maxey
— Jaylen Brown
— LeBron James
— Joel Embiid
— Tacko Fall
The SCARIEST team in the NBA!😤
This summer, the Philadelphia 76ers upgraded their roster by signing LeBron James and trading for Jaylen Brown. Can they capitalize?
"Health Remains Philadelphia 76ers' Only Obstacle to a Championship"
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Would you support President Trump banning Sharia Law in the United States?
A. YES, it’s long overdue!
B. NO, not necessary!
C. Possibly, convince me in the comments.