Blow Out the Candles May 8

Orioles star Mike Cuellar was born in Santa Clara, Cuba on this date in 1937.

With a lifetime record of 185-130, Mike was a 4 time All-Star, 2 time WS Champ, and was the 1969 AL Cy Young Award winner.  He was a part of the last starting rotation to feature four pitchers with at least twenty victories each in one season.

 Palmer, McNally, Cuellar and Dobson all won at least 20 games in 1971.

Lifetime .323 hitter and Hall of Famer Edd Roush was born in Oakland City, Indiana on this date in 1893.

Roush is on the far left. 

19th Century star and Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers was born in Sylvan Kale, NY on this date in 1858.

Not my card

Autographed Baseball Cards A-Z -- Rocky to Crazy Horse

When I got back into collecting five or so years ago one of the things that excited me was the availability of autographed cards.  Perhaps I went a little overboard but I think I picked up some nice cards.  This will be an A-Z series of posts with varying numbers of cards.

 I've you've read this blog you know how much I love this set.  It's a bonus that certain players have more than one card featuring them with different teams.

 Tyler hit 20 home runs in 2010 but also struck out a lot.  He was hit and impaled by a broken bat toward the end of the season.  For whatever reason he couldn't get untracked this year and finds himself in Triple A where he's hitting .262 with a bunch of strikeouts.

 Concepcion is part of my Big Red Machine collection.  I have an on-card of Dave but it's misplaced for the moment in our recent move.  As sticker auto's go this one is nice.  You can barely tell it is a sticker.

 Two Cecil Cooper's here.  Looks like he had a little trouble with the first one.

 These are nice looking cards.  Too bad they're sticker autos.

 Another collection of mine are the Robinsons era Orioles.   Between 1969 and 1974 Mike Cuellar went 125-63 for the O's.  Mike passed away last spring after battling stomach cancer.