Animal. Bigger than a breadbox. À propos de rien.
Eleventh in an occasional series. Collect ’em all! I’m working through a stack of Tigers baseball cards from the late 1960s and early 1970s, with occasional newer cards. Jim Nettles is the younger brother of Graig Nettles, who had a 22-year major league career with the Twins, Indians, Yankees, Padres, and briefly with the Braves […]
Tenth in an occasional series. Collect ’em all! I’m working through a stack of Tigers baseball cards from the late 1960s and early 1970s, with occasional newer cards. Wow! It’s been almost a month since my last Cardboard Tigers post. Must have been something pretty compelling happening to keep me from doing another one of […]
Sometimes we work toward a goal, knowing what we want and devoting our efforts toward achieving it. Other times opportunities are presented unexpectedly, and if we take the chance it might change the course of your life. David Korff, who died on January 20, provided that opportunity to me in late 2008. David was the […]
As I was serving up some vanilla ice cream for dessert tonight, I noted that Breyer’s is very proud of using only “Grade A” milk, which made me wonder for the first time if there is “Grade B” milk or even milk that fails completely (even if graded on a curve). It turns out there […]
Ninth in an occasional series. Collect ’em all! I’m working through a stack of Tigers baseball cards from the late 1960s and early 1970s, with occasional newer cards. Yes, that’s right. Before he was a coach for the Tigers from 2006 to 2017, before he managed the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1997 to 2000, even before […]