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Hideous Ballplayer Week (3rd Annual) is on it’s way
Not this week, but the week after will be ‘Hideous Ballplayer Week’. It’s the week before the Super Bowl or the dead week. So you’ll have plenty of time to help us out with your submissions. Hideous...
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Leading us off on Hideous Ballplayer week: Dale Sveum
So we admit, the above picture was stolen from Gem Mint Ten, as was the factoid that was on the back of the card that we’re about to share with you. The following ‘Topps Fact’ (remember those as a...
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Wayne Kirby, just a “guy”
Before all Hell broke loose in 1995 and the Indians started ripping balls in the gaps and out of the ballpark every night; Wayne Kirby was actually considered a future cornerstone back when the...
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Stephen Strasburg’s crusade to quit dipping tobacco
Now time for a post about a ballplayer that isn’t hideous. But the act of what he’s trying to accomplish; at least in our experience, is very hideous. Stephen Strasburg is attempting to kick his...
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The David Justice for Ricky Ledee Trade? Hideous.
Next up for you within Hideous Baseball Week–we have a story for you. And it goes a little something like this. It was the summer of 2000. The end of June. I was down in Florida staying at my...
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Randy wasn’t Ready for the big time
Welcome to Hideous Baseball Week at Diamond Hoggers. If you have a nomination of a ballplayer from the past who specialized in being unspectacular, tweet us the nomination or send us an email to...
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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....
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It’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...
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The 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...
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How 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...
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Hideous 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...
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Hideous 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...
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Hideous 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...
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This 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...
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Hideous 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...
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Next 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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