Archive - Infinite Baseball Card Set

Danny Hayling: The Duke of Hazard

In the summer of 1951, a fireballing right-hander imported all the way from Costa Rica helped pitch a small-town team deep in the Kentucky mountains to…

Jul 15 •

Gary Cieradkowski

June 2025

Card Giveaway at SABR53 this week!

I'll be handing out a different card for each day of the conference – COLLECT THEM ALL!

Jun 23 •

Gary Cieradkowski

May 2025

Smead Jolley: Ahead of the curve

Today, this 6-time batting champ would be the model Designated Hitter, but Smead Jolley was ahead of the curve, his defensive lapses condemning him to…

May 19 •

Gary Cieradkowski

Jimmy O'Connell: I cannot tell a lie

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe got all the headlines, but here's one of the other guys who was taken off MLBs permanently ineligible list.

May 13 •

Gary Cieradkowski

Benny Kauff: Stealing bases and Automobiles

Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe got all the headlines, but here's one of the other guys who was taken off MLBs permanently ineligible list.

May 13 •

Gary Cieradkowski

Oscar Bielaski: Pierwszy!*

Oscar Bielaski joined the army to avenge his father’s death in the Civil War. Though he did not see combat, he did learn to play the new game of “base…

May 9 •

Gary Cieradkowski

March 2025

Van Lingle Mungo: Strikeout!

Five years ago, he was the National League’s strikeout king. Now Van Lingle Mungo was in a warehouse hiding behind cases of Ron Stacola Rum waiting to…

Mar 21 •

Gary Cieradkowski

February 2025

Bobby Balcena: The Filipino Flyer

Though they’d been playing the game of baseball since the Civil War, it wasn’t until 1956 that Bobby “The Filipino Flyer” Balcena became the first…

Feb 18 •

Gary Cieradkowski

January 2025

Tomás Romañach: Afraid of being what the Americanos call "the lemon"

In what was thinking outside the box for the time, the Cincinnati Reds signed two Cubans in 1911. Now two years later they were awaiting the arrival of…

Jan 7 •

Gary Cieradkowski

December 2024

Dolly Stark: Renaissance Man in Blue

He went from a homeless street urchin on New York’s Lower East Side to become the National League’s most popular umpire and the only ump in history to…

Dec 11, 2024 •

Gary Cieradkowski

November 2024

"Scissors" Foutz: Those Leadville Blues

What’s more quintessentially American than baseball and the Old West? This is the story of baseball played high in the Rockies of 1880s Colorado.

Nov 21, 2024 •

Gary Cieradkowski

October 2024

Satchel Paige: Hitting Rock Bottom

In the summer of 1938, Satchel Paige’s arm, which had been working non-stop year-round for more than a decade, suddenly went dead.

Oct 22, 2024 •

Gary Cieradkowski

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