Relief pitchers are hardly a big deal in the baseball card collecting hobby. Of course, guys like Dennis Eckersley and Lee Smith have their fans and collectors. But, a lot of the best relief pitchers out there, even the most…

Not many people probably remember the baseball player Scott Seabol. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 88th round in 1996. That’s an absurdly late draft pick, and the MLB draft never goes that far anymore. Seabol…

Christopher Trotman Nixon, better known as “Trot,” was a first-round selection of the Boston Red Sox in the Major League Baseball draft. He would go on to become a fan-favorite, and although he struggled against left-handed pitching, his “dirt dog”…

Rich Garces, better known as “El Guapo” or the handsome one, was a relief pitcher for several seasons in Major League Baseball. Setup men typically don’t get much love at all in the sports world, but in Boston, he would…

The Boston Red Sox had some pretty good baseball players back in the 1970’s. But, one you may not have heard much about was Sonny Siebert. A starting pitcher who was better known for his strong first few years with…

I was greatly saddened to learn that former Red Sox baseball player Lee Tinsley passed away at just 53 years old. Sadly, no cause of death was ever confirmed. As I’d already been writing up an article about Tinsley’s trade…

Don Aase is best known to Boston Red Sox baseball fans as the guy the Boston Red Sox traded for second baseman Jerry Remy. Technically, this trade netted the Red Sox negative WAR, as Aase would go on to be…

In my initial quest to profile every Boston Red Sox player ever, Aardsma was one of the first I ever wrote about. Aardsma was a guy that the Sox probably gave up too quickly on, and considering he was a…

Even most casual baseball fans know who Carl Yastrzemski is, one of the greatest Boston Red Sox players ever and a Baseball Hall of Famer. But, on this 1964 Topps card entitled “Sox Sockers” who is this he’s sharing the…

On November 18, 2013, Cincinnati Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty made one of the strangest MLB free agent signings I’ve ever seen. While it certainly doesn’t go down as an all-time front office misstep, it certainly had a pretty bad…