Auto Collection: Maury Wills Diamond King

Here is a 2005 Donruss Diamond King autograph card of Maury Wills with a burgundy frame numbered to 50.

Hunt Auctions: Some Incredible Dodger Pics

Mixed in with the Earl Weaver and Willie Mosconi collections are a great group of Dodger photographs within the current Hunt Auctions offering. From what I gather, these are modern reproductions taken from original negatives and printed on high quality silver gelatin photo paper. They would look phenomenal framed. Check some of them out below.

There's something majestic about the main tool all ballplayers use. Here is a close up pic of the hand of Jackie Robinson taken by Harold Carter in 1947.

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This photo of Jackie Robinson from the mid-50's was taken by Robert Riger.

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Here is another Roger Riger photo of Roy Campanella.

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Yet another Roger Riger photo of Duke Snider.

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Auto Collection: Brad Penny Diamond King

Here's a Brad Penny 2005 autographed Diamond Kings card with a burgundy frame numbered to 50.

Whatever Ails Baseball is the Fault of McCourt

Well played Yahoo! Well Played.

We all know that an evil northeastern troll is the cause of everything that troubles the game. After all, he's ruined the Dodgers, so we might as well blame him for everything.

UPDATE: Maybe it's better said that McCourt is driving us all to drink- since the union and MLB are considering a alcohol plan.

Music For Lunch

I can't believe I've never taken the time to search YouTube for pieces by Steven Reich. He is one of my favorite composers, and is noted for being a pioneer in the minimalist sound. His tune "Clapping Music" is, in my mind, a masterpiece, as well as, the below song called "Piano Phase." Before you take a listen let me set up how amazingly difficult this song is. It is basically one musician playing two pianos (it's usually played by two musicians), but each hand is playing the tune in a different time signature. For the laymen that may not mean much, but try to imagine banging on a drum with one hand at 4 beats per second and then using the left hand to bang on another drum at 3 beats per second- and maintaining that for entire song. What you'll find is that the song starts to fold and phase in and out of sequence. It's like witnessing a musical battle as your ear tries to decipher the inherent madness of what's going on.

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Blog Kiosk: 5/6/2011

It's hard to believe much else could go wrong in this years Dodger season.

• Number 5 Type Collections shows his 1962 Topps Venezuelan Sandy Koufax card, here. Awesome and very scarce.
  
• Punk Rock Paint is now doing some retro sets for the Baseball Card Blog and starts it off with some Muppets retro cards. Check out Beaker here and the rest of the Electric Mayhem here.
• Check out the worlds largest model airport, via AOL.
• This is for you tech geeks out there. Jerome Svigals, one of the earliest computer programming pioneers and father of magnetic stripe technology, is on reddit today answering all of your questions. Check it out here.
  
• Kung Fooled! (Hat Tip: Reddit)
  

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