You can breathe easier now: The Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge is back on the calendar! Yep, on Saturday, March 8, I'm still...

Just in case you thought that Scott Erickson's public profile couldn't get any stranger - author of a no-hitter, former member of ...

Always keep your eye on the ball. Pitchers and catchers report in 15 days, and not a moment too soon.

In some ways, I think it's fitting that the slapdash, bloated Documentary set was one of the last products Upper Deck released before ...

Hi there! Sorry for the unexplained absence yesterday. I had a few friends over to watch the Royal Rumble, my favorite WWE pay-per-view of...

As you may have heard, today's Polar Bear Plunge was canceled due to the weather. Winds on the Chesapeake Bay got up to 25 mph, creati...

Baseball Reference has given me another new toy! Now anyone can search for historical transactions by date . That's how I learned that...

Sometimes you come across a story or a quote that makes you go, "Say WHAT?". That happened to me this morning when I was reading...

Baseball cards can elicit so many emotions in us. What do you feel when you gaze upon the grotesquerie of Jeffrey Hammonds' intense mi...

It's 11:30 PM Eastern. Do you know where your B. J. Surhoff is?

Next month, Spring Training will begin! Before it does, Orioles FanFest will happen! As is my wont, I purchased a voucher for one of the a...

I'm so impatient for baseball to come back that I'm looking for an angle in the upcoming Super Bowl. As you know by now (if you ev...

I don't know many card collectors who get excited about Gypsy Queen, with its drab borders and beginners' Photoshop filters. So it...

One of the great things about the 1975 Topps set is that I have previously posted 10 Orioles cards on this blog from the set, and there ar...

I have many hopes and dreams for the Orioles' 2014 season. I hope that the positions of second base, left field, and designated hitter...

It's been a week, and the deeply disturbed individual who voted for Armando Benitez for the Hall of Fame is still at large. A strict c...

Yesterday's blog post about the Polar Bear Plunge received a bigger response than I'd anticipated. Three donors in, and I've a...

Curt Schilling is one of just 11 players in major league history to be born in Alaska - Anchorage, to be specific. This strikes me as rele...

Okay, since you patiently endured yesterday's bait-and-switch, here's a fitting card to commemorate my 2,131st blog entry. I would...

Today marks an important arbitrary milestone for this blog. This is the 2,130th entry published. You might have expected a Cal Ripken card...