The Other Larkin
When I was a kid and I saw the name ‘Larkin’ in the Minnesota Twins box score on some mornings, I thought that maybe Barry Larkin had a long lost brother out there playing for the Minnesota Twins....
View ArticleIt’s Hideous to ruin your older brother’s Drunken John Smiley autograph
I was at lunch the other day with some co-workers and we were swapping some stories. My co-worker knows I’m a baseball fan and that I back the Reds. He asks me if I remember John Smiley. Of course I...
View ArticleThe Month of February is such a drag
This is a good post for Hideous Baseball Week. I realize we’re into the longest, shortest month that ever existed. The above picture is not a picture of a parking lot that I was in lately–but...
View ArticleHow did light hitting Ozzie Guillen hang on so long?
Growing up in the 80′s and early 90′s there was no fewer two Ozzie’s in baseball who coincidentally played shortstop. And neither one of them could hit a lick. And no this post is not because Ozzie...
View ArticleHideous Ballplayer Week Returns, Soon
It’s a time-honored tradition on this blog during the slow winter months before we have real baseball to write about. We pick some players who have been long forgotten in the thousands that have...
View ArticleHideous Ballplayer Week Returns! Let’s kick things off with “Iron” Mike Gallego
To pass a week of time in the dullest and most hideous month of them all, we bring you Hideous Ballplayer Week, a time-honored tradition at Diamond Hoggers. We’ll bring to you your middling player who...
View ArticleHideous Ballplayer Week Theatre: A Timeline of Pitcher Sammy Stewart
Young Sam Stewart, Baltimore Orioles Rookie Pitcher. 1979. “Earl Weaver hated me when I first came up with the big club. Come to think of it, he never really took to me even into when he retired. My...
View ArticleThis Jeff Reboulet Caricature is just Majestic
This fine artwork was completed in 2013. This artist should get out more. To pass a week of time in the dullest and most hideous month of them all, we bring you Hideous Ballplayer Week, a time-honored...
View ArticleHideous Ballplayer Week: Nothing Bonus about Ricky Bones
To pass a week of time in the dullest and most hideous month of them all, we bring you Hideous Ballplayer Week, a time-honored tradition at Diamond Hoggers. We’ll bring to you your middling player who...
View ArticleNext Week will be Hideous Ballplayer Week
A time-honored tradition here at Diamond Hoggers returns the week before Valentines day, during the most hideous month of them all. Hideous Ballplayer Week has been a feature for many years here, and...
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