1954 Topps Cartoons - #7 Criminal Activity

This is turning out to be sort of a lost weekend for drawing/posting although I did participate in the greatest baseball game I will ever witness yesterday and got to watch enough ponies with my daughter to keep Elmer's supplied for the rest of the decade. I want to get one Topps cartoon out this weekend so this series doesn't end up taking 5 years to finish. This toon goes out to Good 'Ol Steve who is having an extraordinarily interesting life at the moment. Hang in there, buddy!

 Here's a card of Ferris Fain, two time AL batting champ. How did this guy hit so well?

One day in '51, Ferris watched some kids play baseball. 


When they left they forgot the bat. Fain, in a batting slump took it. 


He started using it. That old bat not only ended his slump but helped win the batting crown!

Yep, ol' Ferris won the batting title AFTER SWIPING SOME KID'S BAT. Although the way that bat looks in the second panel, the kid might have been trying to get that bat swiped for quite some time. It worked for Ferris though! I wonder how long that bat lasted in the bigs before it broke or an equipment manager mistook it for a table leg and sent it to the scrap heap. Ferris was actually a fantastic hitter in his own right and had a lifetime OBP of .424. He was also a bit of a nut, which caused friction in the clubhouse and ended up getting him run from the league. If Ferris was born 50 years later with an OBP like that, he'd have a 200 million dollar contract, his face would be painted 100 feet high on Nike's corporate offices and Bill James would start a new religion dedicated to the worship of Ferris. Hey, there's worse things to worship besides OBP...

Nothing down here today, I really gotta go...

Not even Pinkie Pie can make me smile like this did

No matter how horribly dreadfully awful the next few days/weeks go, this play right here will keep me happy throughout the long offseason.



Magic number is three.

No Base

Reader Brian sent me this one... Check out the seven reasons to buy Superlative Hockey by In the Game. Particularly number 7.

There are NO base cards in Superlative^TM Hockey.

Oh goody.

The packs probably run a grand each, but if there's no cards in a pack of cards that changes everything. I'll be sure to pick up a few cases now.

Also Chris Harris braves the horrors of Powerpoint to give us the scoop on 2008 Goudey.

Long story short, 30 more short prints, short prints are harder to get, mini cards are now a scarce parallel and there are more fucking goddamn piece of shit useless pile of crap President card garbage in the base set.

Going back to bed.

Never should have gotten up in the first place.