(Today is Pack Rat Day, a day to honor hoarding card collectors like us. In fact, I wrote a Cardboard Appreciation post on Pack Rat Day once before . I guess this is now a tradition. Welcome to Cardboard Appreciation and Pack Rat Day. This is the 224th in a series): This is another one of those " name's the same " posts. But I have to admit, this player's name confused me for a little while. About a dozen years ago, I didn't pay a lot of attention to baseball. I knew enough to get by in my job and to recognize the names on TV, but I wasn't too enthused about it. One tell-tale sign was that I barely collected baseball cards. But somehow, somewhere, I heard that Ray Liotta was pitching in the White Sox organization and I naturally assumed that the actor who played Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field Of Dreams" had made good on some unannounced dream to play professional baseball, and the White Sox, Shoeless Joe Jackson's White Sox, took him up ...
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