I pulled this card last weekend out of a Fairfield rack pack. I twittered the entire pack of 100 cards, much to my audience's chagrin, I'm sure. But I had a lot of fun. This card was my favorite out of the entire pack, and only a small part of it is because it's a 1981 Fleer card that I needed. The photo represents a bygone era. And that era is "The Era Of A Disgusting Habit." It was an era when baseball-playing men were unashamed to appear on little rectangles of cardboard with a great wad of tobacco in their cheek. As a kid, I would seek out cards in which I could tell players were packing away a chaw. And I would get excited when I pulled a card of someone who looked like he could spit for days. I'm not sure why this intrigued me so. I blame part of it on this Sports Illustrated article that I read at a young age. Thanks to that article, I knew at age 11 that former pitcher Steve Hamilton threw up on the mound on national TV after swallowin...
Up all hours talking baseball, cardboard & collecting