The post I wrote the other day got me thinking about holding onto the memories before they disappear. And that caused me to remember the "firsts" posts that I've written. I haven't done one of those in almost three years so it's about time I added to the series . If you've forgotten what those are about (join the club), it's where I go through random "firsts" in my life, usually stuff that happened in my first 20 years because that's when most of the firsts occur. Here we go: First All-Star Game that I watched The first All-Star Game I watched was in 1977, which was played at Yankee Stadium, newly renovated at the time. The National League won that game 7-5. They scored four runs in the top of the first inning. So that follows that the first All-Star Game home run I saw was by Joe Morgan since he hit one in the first at-bat of the game against Jim Palmer. In a sign of the preference for starters at the time, Palmer stayed in the ga...
Yeah, definitely something odd going on with Blogger's reading list. It's started dredging up posts from long-dead blogs that are five, eight, 10 years old. I've actually seen a couple of old Gint-A-Cuffs posts. I got excited for a second and thought Mark had reappeared and was reviving it for this year's A&G set! I admit I've clicked on a couple of those once-active blogs and read an old post or two. Things were a bit easier on the blogs then, you didn't have to fight a bunch of other social media outlets for hobby eyes. Back then, too, it was easier for me to select a Card of the Year. I'd devote a post to it every year. But I haven't done that for quite awhile. It took Nachos Grande's annual End-of-the-Year Awards (today's the last day for nominations ), for me to think about this year's Card of the Year. I thought and I thought and I thought ... and then I left the category blank. Nothing was coming to me. That's not a s...