Welcome to baseball history’s best kept secret: The Infinite Baseball Card Set

This whole thing got started with a blog. What happened was in 2009, my father died unexpectedly. I was living in Hollywood at the time, and suddenly I had no one to share my fascination with baseball history and its unique players with. My dad and I talked several times a week about baseball. Both being voracious readers and eternally curious, we would swap stories about the obscure ballplayers we read about. Through my Dad I learned about players such as Victory Faust, Eiji Sawamura, and Pete Hill. And then suddenly, he was gone, and so was my outlet for the stories I learned about.

So, one night I just started my own blog. I drew a baseball card of an obscure player and posted it. But it looked skimpy without explaining who the player was, so I wrote a story to go with it. Next time I found myself missing my father I did another ballplayer drawing and story. Then another. Soon, I had people writing to ask for specific players. And suddenly it became a pretty popular place – but more importantly, I had connected with many others who were interested in the same obscure baseball history as my dad and I were. And the most rewarding part was that I had many fathers (and mothers) writing to say that they were able to use my drawings and stories to get their sons and daughters interested in the game. That really meant a lot to me, seeing as it was what brought my father and I together all those years before.

The original blog expanded into three books, a new website, and many new friends. And all these years later, I continue to add new players. This Substack page will be a secondary outlet that will hopefully allow my art and stories to reach more people who have the same interest in baseball history’s obscure players, just like my Dad and I.

You can visit my website where you can see more of my artwork and read more of my work at StudioGaryC.com

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