Comments on: Happy Birthday–October 11 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/10/11/happy-birthday-october-11/ Your Daily Source for Half-Baked Crap Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:09:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: CarterHayes http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/10/11/happy-birthday-october-11/#comment-243189 CarterHayes Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:36:10 +0000 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/?p=16729#comment-243189 GAH! Rookie mistake. I'd Earl Battey'd the pitcher, even though he was the only one that was ever with the big club. I saw Gregg Olson and immediately thought of the guy Gladden spiked into a somersault. As with Joe Roa, there are no actual cards of Gregg Olson from his time with the Twins. Here's a bogus one: <img src="http://twinscards.com/images/autographs/thumbnails/2/25662_1_500x500.jpg" alt="Gregg Olson" height="359" width="250" /> GAH! Rookie mistake. I'd Earl Battey'd the pitcher, even though he was the only one that was ever with the big club. I saw Gregg Olson and immediately thought of the guy Gladden spiked into a somersault.

As with Joe Roa, there are no actual cards of Gregg Olson from his time with the Twins. Here's a bogus one:

Gregg Olson

]]> By: brianS http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/10/11/happy-birthday-october-11/#comment-243182 brianS Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:26:43 +0000 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/?p=16729#comment-243182 whoops. <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1136747/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wrong GW Olson</a>, CH! :-) <blockquote>Braves catcher Greg Olson is having an identity crisis. He is constantly getting letters intended for Oriole pitcher Gregg Olson. "How in the world can someone write a letter to an Orioles' pitcher and send it to Atlanta?" says Greg. "I must have 50 letters of his. This winter was ridiculous. I got 18 fan letters at my home, and 17 were for him. With the first few I wrote back and said, 'You have the wrong Gregg Olson.' After that, I kept 'em. I have more Gregg Olson baseball cards [enclosed in the letters in hope that Olson would autograph and return them] than anyone in America."</blockquote> <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UOk3nQn2Pns/SInmA_SL5SI/AAAAAAAABoM/xU07lknlLlk/s320/2hals60L.jpg" alt="" /> whoops. Wrong GW Olson, CH! :-)

Braves catcher Greg Olson is having an identity crisis. He is constantly getting letters intended for Oriole pitcher Gregg Olson. "How in the world can someone write a letter to an Orioles' pitcher and send it to Atlanta?" says Greg. "I must have 50 letters of his. This winter was ridiculous. I got 18 fan letters at my home, and 17 were for him. With the first few I wrote back and said, 'You have the wrong Gregg Olson.' After that, I kept 'em. I have more Gregg Olson baseball cards [enclosed in the letters in hope that Olson would autograph and return them] than anyone in America."

]]> By: CarterHayes http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/10/11/happy-birthday-october-11/#comment-243180 CarterHayes Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:11:25 +0000 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/?p=16729#comment-243180 <img src="http://twinscards.com/images/cards/watermarks/32/323444_1_500x500.jpg" alt="Bill Fischer" height="359" width="250" /><img src="http://twinscards.com/images/cards/watermarks/59/594903_1_500x500.jpg" alt="Greg Olson" height="359" width="250" /> <img src="http://twinscards.com/images/autographs/thumbnails/2/23529_1_500x500.jpg" alt="Joe Roa" height="359" width="250" /><img src="http://twinscards.com/images/autographs/thumbnails/0/1490_1_500x500.jpg" alt="Mike Duvall" height="359" width="250" /> There weren''t any Joe Roa Twins cards in the usual database I check, so I'm not sure if he had a card produced while he was with the club. Thus, the custom job above. Bill FischerGreg Olson

Joe RoaMike Duvall

There weren''t any Joe Roa Twins cards in the usual database I check, so I'm not sure if he had a card produced while he was with the club. Thus, the custom job above.

]]> By: E-6 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/10/11/happy-birthday-october-11/#comment-243173 E-6 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:39 +0000 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/?p=16729#comment-243173 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_OEaHfWII Wow, <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dickebu01.shtml" rel="nofollow">Buttercup </a>was a tiny dude: 5'6", 140 lbs. According to Wiki he was the first Italian-American to play in the bigs. He also finished his career with the Buffalo Bison, during which he posted this line (21 AB): .048 .091 .095 .186 (Hey FTLT, there's your next throwback jersey.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_OEaHfWII


Wow, Buttercup was a tiny dude: 5'6", 140 lbs. According to Wiki he was the first Italian-American to play in the bigs. He also finished his career with the Buffalo Bison, during which he posted this line (21 AB):
.048 .091 .095 .186
(Hey FTLT, there's your next throwback jersey.)

]]> By: brianS http://stickandballguy.com/blog/2009/10/11/happy-birthday-october-11/#comment-243172 brianS Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:26:52 +0000 http://stickandballguy.com/blog/?p=16729#comment-243172 Is that <i>Princess</i> Buttercup???!!! Is that Princess Buttercup???!!!

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