Posts Tagged With: minor league baseball cards
Minor League Monday: 2003 Somerset Patriots
In 2003, the Somerset Patriots won their second Atlantic League title. The independent team finished the season with a 67-59 record under manager Sparky Lyle. Outfielder Ryan Radmanovich, who had a cup of coffee with the Seattle Mariners in 1998, played his first season with the Patriots and led the team with 21 home runs. [...]
Minor League Monday: 2001 Somerset Patriots
In 2001, the Somerset Patriots won their first Atlantic League championship. Manager Sparky Lyle led his team to an 83-43 record. Outfielder Mike Warner was the team’s leading hitter, with a .351 batting average, 17 home runs, 103 RBI and 30 stolen bases. Infielder Billy Hall stole 72 bases, and outfielder DaRond Stovall hit 22 [...]
Minor League Mondays: 1990 Southern Oregon A’s
I found a pair of minor league team sets in a dealer’s 50 cent box at a baseball card show yesterday, so naturally I had to buy them. I’m going to save the 1989 Triple-A All-Star set for another time and focus on the other set I bought: ProCards’ 1990 Southern Oregon A’s. The Southern [...]
Minor League Mondays: 2005 Bridgeport Bluefish
I first started following the Atlantic League in 2005, so all of the teams were pretty new to me. I remember a few things about the Bridgeport Bluefish that year: They had a player named Rolo Avila who apparently wanted to copy Johnny Damon’s Red Sox-era look. Former Mets pitcher Robert Person played for them [...]
Minor League Monday: 2008 Somerset Patriots Ballpark 10th Season set
To celebrate their 10th season in 2008, the Somerset Patriots gave away a series of baseball cards highlighting some memorable moments in their ballpark’s 10 year history. There were five differed strips, each with four cards that were part of the set plus an advertising card for the business that sponsored that particular giveaway. The [...]
Minor League Mondays: 1999 Newark Bears
Fifty years after the original Newark Bears team left the city in 1949, the modern day Bears franchise returned to Newark in 1999 as a member of the Atlantic League. After spending their first season playing home games in Bridgeport, the 1999 Newark Bears started the season with Skylands Park in Augusta as their home [...]
Ken Oberkfell baseball cards, 2001-2010
Here’s a look at the various minor league baseball cards (from 2001-2010) of new Newark Bears coach Ken Oberkfell.
Weekend card shows in New Jersey
The second weekend of the month seems like a popular one for sports card shows in New Jersey. S&B Sports Promotions is holding a weekend-long sports card show at the Voorhees Town Center, 1285 Echelon Mall Road, Voorhees starting today. New York Giants tight end Jake Ballard and New York Yankees infielder Eduardo Nunez are scheduled [...]
Minor League Mondays: 2008 Southern Maryland Blue Crabs
In 2008, the independent Atlantic League introduced a new team in Southern Maryland, which at the time was the southern-most franchise in the league. Playing their home games at Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf, the Blue Crabs finished their inaugural season with a 74-66 record under manager Butch Hobson. Former New York Mets and New [...]
Minor League Mondays: 2006 Newark Bears team set review
Today’s (slightly late) edition of Minor League Mondays is dedicated to the 2006 Newark Bears. In his second year managing the independent Atlantic League team, former New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds outfielder Chris Jones led his squad to a 42-83 record. For the second year in a row, Newark won a walk-off victory on [...]
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