152 Phil Ortega - Senators
156 Bob Sadowski - Braves - Claimed Waxaholic
156 Bob Sadowski - Braves - Claimed Waxaholic
162 Russ Nixon - Red Sox, no Twins!
177 Pete Mikkelsen - Yankees - Claimed BA Benny
181 Senators Rookie Stars - Loun and McCabe
177 Pete Mikkelsen - Yankees - Claimed BA Benny
181 Senators Rookie Stars - Loun and McCabe
211 Steve Ridzik - Senators
226 Yankees Rookie Stars - Jiminez and Gibbs (2 available)-1 Claimed-BA Benny
333 Tommy Reynolds - Athletics
409 Astros Rookie Stars - Beauchamp and Larry Dierker - CLAIMED-Daily Dimwit
As always, thanks for looking. If you want a card, claim it in the comments and send me an electronic mail message with your offer. This will be the last formal trade bait post. Be aware that all cards here, in the header and being posted on the Nitty Gritty are up for trade in exchange for '65 Topps from my want list. As you are reading this, I am at work. I love the magic of scheduled posts... Anyway, thanks for looking. Go Rays! troll out. 
My wife and I run a record label together. It’s called
He was a pioneer in aviation, hung out with the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart and has the pictures to prove it. That began my fascination with vintage aviation. I don’t have any of that stuff at my house, but my family donated many of his pictures and uniforms and equipment to a museum in Connecticut, the rest of it is stored at my parent’s house. My grandfather on my Mom’s side was a lifetime machinist. That is the career path I have taken, too. Machinists love their tools and thusly I collect machining tools and gages. I recently bought a Starrett “Last Word” gage. Its number dates it to the 30’s and it still works! Okay, this is going somewhere… The last oversized “card” I picked up is this, a 
I had never seen one of these before and it hits my collection on multi-levels. First, it is vintage baseball. My top level in collecting. Second, it’s a RECORD! Third it is made by Columbia Records. That is where my Grandfather worked as a machinist for 45 years. Fourth, in 1959 my Pop-Pop worked in Washington at the Pentagon and attended nearly all of the Senators games. 
He and President Eisenhower had known each other for many years and attended several Sens games together. According to my father in 1959 they agreed that Killebrew and Bob Allison were going to make the Senators contenders. They did team up to make their team a force, but they did it in Minnesota, but my Grandfather (Pop-Pop) remained a fan and flew to the Twin Cities to watch his old team. In yet another connection, two years ago my wife was writing a paper on ataxia, the disorder that took Allison’s life. While researching the disorder she came across Bob Allison and spent a day talking of his accomplishments in baseball. He won the Rookie of the Year in 1959 for the Senators when he hit .261 with 30 homers, 85 RBI, 13 steals and a league leading 9 triples. The Sens still finished in the basement and Allison was overshadowed by Harmon Killebrew who had too many games to qualify for ROY, but led the AL in homers in his first full season in the big leagues. 
Allison was an All Star as a rookie and made the trip twice more. He paced the AL in runs in ’63 and topped 20 homers 8 times in his 13 year career. You can view all of 
My math is fuzzy sometimes, but I think that Ted Williams was 38 in 1957, but he did win a batting title the following year at age 39 when he hit .328 in 1958 to win his 6th batting title. In 2004 Barry Bonds won a batting title when he hit .362 for the Giants-he was 39 also. Since Williams was born in August and Bonds was born in July, I think Bonds became the oldest ever by a couple of weeks, but Williams didn’t need the juice to do it! The back of the card also shows Williams’ managerial record in 1970 with the Senators who were 70-92. The star of that team was the Capital Punisher, Frank “Hondo” Howard who led the AL with 44 homers and 126 RBI-a feat that Williams accomplished (leading the AL in homers and RBI) a few times himself. Hondo also started in left-field for the American League All Stars, a position that Williams held 12 times himself. Teddy Ballgame retired without winning a World Series ring, but left behind one of the most amazing stat sheets in history. He is widely regarded as the Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived even though he missed three full years (in his prime) to military service. He returned in ’46 after spending 3 years away from the game and batted .342 with 38 homers and 123 RBI-that began his nickname of the Comeback Kid-he came back from a lot of things, but in ’46 he came back from war. That was the only year that Williams’ Red Sox made it to the World Series, they dropped it in 7 games to the St Louis Cardinals and Williams hit .200 in the Series. A few bits of statistical trivia from the Cliff Clavin vault… Williams batted over 300 in each of his first 17 seasons. Never in his career did Williams ever top the magical 200 hits total that Baseball Writers place SO much importance on. He also didn’t reach the magical 3000 hits mark, but is still considered by most (this Troll included) to be the best hitter ever. I’m just saying, too much importance is placed on those figures when determining greatness… He DID win 2 Triple Crowns (only player other than Rogers Hornsby to do that) and nearly won a 3rd. His .482 career on base percentage is the highest of all time. His slugging percentage of .634 is second. His career .344 batting average is 7th of All Time, but it is the highest of any player who played after 1950. He was elected into the Hall of Fame (first ballot!) in 1966 and he campaigned for Negro League veterans to be inducted as well-5 years later Satchel Paige became the first. Writing about the Red Sox isn’t exactly my forte, but sooner or later any baseball fan is gonna have to acknowledge the greatest hitter ever. Thanks so much for the card Jeff D! It broke back a ton of memories… It couldn’t have been easy for someone who was used to being the best to coach the worst, but he did aight. I will end this with a quote from Teddy Ballgame himself: “A man has to have goals. . And that was mine, to have people say 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” I love this game, I love this hobby, troll out!
