Dustin Jones

[Hail Varsity @HailVarsity]

Memories they’ll have forever. ♥️

#GBR | #Huskers

[Dustin Jones @dpjones8]

The girls had a blast! #ShesGotGame

[Nebraska Football @HuskerFootball]

Bringing the energy 🏈⚡️

#GBR x #WhatsNExt!

[Nebraska Football @HuskerFootball]

𝗛𝗨𝗦𝗞𝗘𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥‼️💪

We are live from our first-ever girls flag football camp 🏈

#GBR x #WhatsNExt!

[Wayne State Wildcats @wscwildcats]

This weather has us thinking ahead to warmer days…

[80s Sports N Stuff @80sSportsNStuff]

BREAKING NEWS: This is still the best football video game ever made.

[Jon Finkel📚💪 @Jon_Finkel]

Dads and 90s kids, here's a fact:

We had it so good with baseball cards and we didn't know it....

How could we? When we were kids they held promise, future fortunes and they cost .50/pack. You could hit up any grocery store, convenience store, pharmacy, 7-11 and...

If you had a dollar in your pocket you were baseball card rich. Cards. Gum. Assets.

You kids today have no idea.

There were no box breaks or buy-ins or $49.99 or $99 packs or $1,000 packs or sets or streams to see other cards or dozens of different sets with holograms and refractors and subtle variations or uniform slivers cut inside...

HELL NO.

We had cardboard. And three ring binders. And plastic sleeves...

We had a 4-pound Beckett guide that was our bible.

We coveted like 7 rookie cards:

Rickey Henderson
Don Mattingly
Kirby Puckett
Roger Clemens
Doc Gooden
Mark McGwire
Ozzie Smith

And then, of course, we overloaded on Ken Griffey Jr...

But for about 6 years we treated our card collection like it was our personal hedge fund.

We'd trade cards in the school cafeteria like stock brokers...

3 Frank Violas and 2 Ryne Sandbergs for a Jose Canseco Rookie

1 Jack McDowell RC plus 1 Ruben Sierra RC for a Benito Santiago rookie

We'd try to get lucky by loading up on Ellis Burks or Jim Abbott rookies. We took shots, cornering the market on random players with upside like Todd Benzinger and Walt Weiss or personal favorites like Oil Can Boyd...

And on and on we'd go, thinking that once we had the rookie cards from the entire '94 all-star team or all of the rookie cards from the '92 Sox or Yankees or A's that we could then put our cards in a vault for thirty years...

Then we'd open that vault up in 2023 when we were 40 and we'd... BE... RICH!!!

We know now that it wasn't meant to be.

But damn. What a time to be a kid. What a time to be alive. It was awesome.

If you're nodding your head with Topps & Fleer-filled nostalgia, share this and follow me @Jon_Finkel.

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[Dustin Jones @dpjones8]

@RLennerton Wow good call. And the double trap-eze on the gloves. AI art is fun

[Dustin Jones @dpjones8]

@RLennerton Haha yes! Other notables: the mound?, coach with no hat, also is that a polo with baseball pants? And the big one is I’m pretty sure they are facing the outfield.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Nebraska police pulled over a man with a “Watusi bull” riding shotgun 😳🤯

[Wayne State Baseball @WSCBB]

There’s still time to get signed up for our Golf Outing in a week! This year it will take place at Tara Hills in Papillion on July 29th at Noon! Sign up online or text one of the coaches!

https://t.co/uiQ7CE6RL2

[Omaha Baseball @OmahaBSB]

One of the most successful coaches in Division II history and now our newest assistant coach.

Welcome aboard John‼️

📰https://t.co/QRaRKMIlLf

#OmahaBSB

[Rich Eisen Show @RichEisenShow]

On the first time he met Kobe Bryant, the no-flinch inbounds and the phone call that made him a Laker — really cool conversation today with 14-year #NBA vet @Matt_Barnes22 today:

#NBA #NBAPlayoffs #LakeShow

[Wayne State Baseball @WSCBB]

Our program depends on scholarships for our student-athletes. On WSC Giving Day, 100% of proceeds goes towards baseball scholarships. Help support baseball scholarships at https://t.co/SDTy28X6UD

https://t.co/kJlzuh9igh

[Dustin Jones @dpjones8]

Keep it simple, look middle.

[Xavier Scruggs @Xavier_Scruggs]

A lot of MLB players will tell you their approach has to be simple at the plate. But what does that really mean? 🤔

Let’s watch Jarred Kelenic‘s simple approach in the batters box!

#SeaUsRise

[Dustin Jones @dpjones8]

@NickBahe The free throws 🤦🏻‍♂️

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

Except for Griffey's, all the names in this classic ’90s Nintendo video game were fake. Where the heck did they come from?