Food, Baseball Cards Push Man Over the Edge
When Asdrubal Cabrera turned major league baseball’s 14th ever unassisted triple play Monday night at Jacobs Field in Cleveland tonight, it was incredible from a memorabilia standpoint that he tossed the ball into the stands on his way to the dugout. No doubt, that created an ugly tussel in the box seats.
Jacobs Field also was site of an ugly incident in Beckett history.
Well, it wasn’t anything heinous. But in 2001 during the Cleveland National, Upper Deck hosted a gathering of hobby glitterati, including some Beckett editors and pricing analysts, in a luxury box at The Jake. UD trotted out hot dogs, drinks and a slew of boxes of products to open. Pack wars prevailed. Gluttony ensued.
Did I mention that we have some passionate collectors who work at Beckett?
Well, the combination of food, people and baseball cards was a bit much for one of our employees in attendance. Former Co-Worker Rich became overly excited, barked at a few people, and eventually spilled hot dog condiments all over a box of cards before he calmed.
His response was, “It’s better to have a food-stained box than food-stained cards.” I guess that makes sense. – ph
Tags: baseball cards, Jacobs Field, Upper Deck
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May 15, 2008 at 10:04 am
A lot has changed since then: Jacob’s Field is now called Progressive Field and you have about 20K open seats to choose from. That triple play ball thrown into the stands probably hit an usher taking a nap before a fan could race 15 rows to get it.
But Manny is still being Manny.
http://sportslocker.blogspot.com/
May 15, 2008 at 10:50 am
Speaking of food and the hobby, At card shows I’ve notice an abundance of overweight collectors. There have also been alot of threads started on the beckett message boards regarding losing weight and such. Are collectors just sitting in front of the computer searching ebay and munching down on little debbies and then sliding their chair over to play halo while chugging down 4 cans of mountain dew? It’s rather disgusting. People, if you avoid buying junk food you will have more money to spend on cards! Instead of forcing down 6 big macs down your pie hole every day you could buy that Adrian Peterson rookie auto that you’ve always wanted but can’t afford so you post on the message boards saying how broke and jealous you are but you sit there in front of the computer shoving foot longs in your face and injecting turkey gravy into your veins. Ugh!
May 15, 2008 at 11:53 am
Obama - accurate and funny
May 15, 2008 at 1:30 pm
What’s it to you Obama? You’re done kicking Hillary’s ass, now you are on to card dealers?
May 16, 2008 at 9:18 am
Long live Baseline Richie!
May 16, 2008 at 11:45 am
Instead of a jar of French’s yellow, you should have had a bottle of Bertman’s Ballpark Mustard.
May 16, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Those price guys looked pale by the way– they all need more sun……..
I guess the Jaws of Life are no longer needed to pry that box from Upper Deck– but they may get better use getting the price guys out of the building for more hot dogs,,,,,,,,
Jeff :o)
May 19, 2008 at 1:55 pm
That’s right OBAMA!! What’s it to you? Already putting people down?
Guess you’ll keep all the money so you can afford to buy ALL the cards!!!!!!!!!
Shouldn’t you be away from the computer, OUT GETTING VOTES??
SPEND MORE ON THE CARDS, SO YOU GET YOUR CUT.