Monster: "What should I do when I get run down?Doctor: "Take down the car's license number."
"How did the doctor treat the monster?"
"Carefully... very carefully."
(insert Beastie Boys lyrics here) Rod's bustin' right through the Sporting News to take his place as the AL's starting second baseman. 
Poor Yaz loses the batting title to Alex Johnson by a thousandth of a point and he gets stuck on the bottom row with Tony Oliva. Poor Carl. 
Click here. Look at the earned run averages for these three dudes.
HOW THE HECK DID I JUST BUY A DEWEY ROOKIE CARD FOR A BLEEDING QUARTER?! Shoot, maybe I should just build the '73 set...
If the Louvre were to take exactly one baseball card to exhibit in the Modern Art wing, this one here would have to be given serious consideration. This is a masterpiece.
Look how calmly Bert blows bubbles while waiting in a midaeval torture chamber for the BBWAA to poke and prod him with 287 wins. Now sit on... THE COMFY CHAIR.
Why cheapskate vintage collectors love League Leader cards: Three Hall of Famers for two bits. 
Hey, Tony Armas hit 43 homers in 1984. Don't be hatin' on Tony.
Hawk with a rookie cup brings joy to my soul. 
When I first started collecting this error card was like some rare magical legend... strange and alien... not fit for this world. Now it's in a quarter box. Good thing I'm a scrounger and not an investor! Some poor schlub out there has ten thousand of these cards locked up in a safe deposit box, you just know it.
283 wins, a .544 winning percentage, a 3.45 lifetime ERA, 2461 strikeouts, SIXTEEN STRAIGHT Gold Gloves, a World Series Championship and a lingtime broadcaster. Can we please give up this 300 win threshold nonsense and put him in the Hall already??
Forget the rant, Hal was a damn good player for nineteen years and has stuck around baseball as a manager and coach. HAl is most associated with the Royals, but here's an early card of him with the Reds. 
WOOOOO! Reds go to the World Series! Ok so they got beat, their time would come. 
To me, Cy Young winner Marshall will always be the egghead pitcher in Ball Four who is always experimenting with his pitching strategy. Dr. Mike's mad scientist approach to pitching continues on in his revolutionary pitching technique that supposedly prevents injuries. I saw him demonstrate it on the MLB network several months ago and it looks pretty neat. Maybe some team will actually try it out one of these days...
WHAT THE HECK IS LEFTY DOING IN THE CHEAPO BOX.
Another guy who has been locked out of the Hall for no damn good reason. Maybe the Veteran's Committee will get it right this year. And maybe tiny winged versions of Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver will fly out of my butt and call a nationally televised baseball game in a lucid, intelligent and enjoyable fashion. 
One of these days Santo and Kaat will get into the Hall and I won't be able to bitch about how stupid the voters are for leaving them out anymore. That's when I can start bitching about Dewey being left out. PUT HIM IN ALREADY YA DAMN FASCISTS
RICK RHODEN ROOKIE CARD WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Keith is always rocking the exquisite 'stash, but here he is also showing off the most excellent '70s hair. Oddly this card has a weird blue tint to it. Look carefully at the border.
PURE RELIEF. That's what Sparky is. Just like finally getting to the front of the line to the urinal at the Bon Jovi concert after drinking those 5 pitchers of Pabst. 
Last but not least. This card has his 1977 MVP season stats on the back with the 52 home run line. Remember when 50 home runs was a TON of 'em? Me neither, because everyone got juiced up in the 90's and hit homers like crazy and MLB and the union looked the other way and now they're all playing it off like it was the other guy's fault when in actuality it was a complete failure of the underlying system! So, how to fix this travesty? i was just wondering how i could find out what my cards worth it was given to me by my grandpa when i was little and it doesn't have a date on it all it says is giants field leaders and it shows charlie fox in a bigger picture then there's coaches and one says joe amalfitano, andy gilber, don mcmahon and john mcnamara and it looks like a really old card on the back it has number 252 inside of a baseball and on the bottom it has this **and a c with a circle around it then T.C.G.. PRTD. IN U.S.A.
I don't have the exact one that you have, but it looks like you have a team manager and coaches card for the San Francisco Giants from 1973 Topps. Here are some eBay auctions with images of the card. Don't be fooled by the prices on the auctions though, that one auctions that has it at $99.95 is for a PSA 9 graded card. Graded cards go for weird prices on the market, especially vintage cards. The $30.00 one is autographed. Plus, just because someone is selling it for that much doesn't mean someone will actually buy it for that much. A good ballpark figure for a value on that card by itself is about a buck. A lot depends on the condition though, if the card is beat up it would probably only sell for a dime or maybe a quarter. If it was minty fresh, it would sell for more. The most recent sale was for a near mint card from a set break that went for $3.01. An excellent/near-mint example of the same card failed to sell for 99 cents. I'd say a fair range for this card would be about a dime for a beat up card, a buck for a nice example with decent corners and no creases and maybe 3 bucks it's it's a really nice copy with no dings at all. Its monetary value is really only worth what someone would pay for it. Since you got it from your grandfather its sentimental value is probably worth a lot more than a buck.
Here's the back or my card with the T.C.G.. PRTD. IN U.S.A. line on the bottom. This is a tricky card to date since there's no copyright date on it and there are no stats to go by. A way to research stuff like this is to take the things you know about the card and do a Google search for those items. We know it's a Topps card. The team is the Giants. Charlie Fox is the main person on the card. The card number is 252. Do a search for "Topps 252 Giants Charlie Fox" and you get this. It's not perfect, but the top link is to 1973 Topps Giants cards and the top ebay acution is for the exact card. You will have to play with the search items though, add Joe Amalfitano to the search and you get a lot of links for 1965 Topps. The best way to search is to start with a few items and then add more to narrow the search if needed.
Ron was a fantastic hitter, but had his career shortened by injuries. In seven shortened years with the Yankees and one final season with the White Sox, he had an OPS+ of 140 for his career. Ron was on fire during this 1973 season and made the cover of Sports Illustrated with Bobby Murcer. While he didn't end up the superstar he looked destined to be, he is a baseball immortal for being the first designated hitter ever on April 6th, 1973. Ron was walked in the first inning with the bases loaded by Luis Tiant in a 15-5 debacle of a loss to the Boston Red Sox in Fenway. Ron became the first DH (Designated Hebrew) by virtue of the Sox and Yankees' 1:37pm first pitch. Other DHes on this first day were Orlando Cepeda (Red Sox), Ollie Brown (Brewers), Terry Crowley (Orioles), Ed Kirkpatrick (Royals), Tommy McCraw (Angels), Tony Oliva (Twins) and Billy North (A's). Ron was the first though, so he will always be famous or infamous depending on how big a purist you are. But is that the only reason why he's Card of the Week? Of course not! Check out the 'toon on the back!
Ron loves New York Knishes! (hey, that would make a good name for a basketball team) I love knishes too! I could eat a whole platter of potato knishes right now. Of course I'm rather fond of all sorts of savory pocket-type pastries. Perogis, raviolis, empanadas, calzones, Jamaican meat patties, wontons... you get the drift. I LIKES TO EAT. So Smilin' Ron Blomberg's cartoon where he chows down on a huge pile of knishes gave me an extra bit of needed happiness this evening. For your historic achievement and your love of fine food I salute you Ron Blomberg, and deem you well worthy of Card of the Week.
