MLB Fishing All-Star Team Intro

Okay, let’s goof off a bit.

As Major League Baseball poises to announce the 2018 All-Star roster tomorrow in advance of the July 17 All-Star Game, I’ve got a project of my own to introduce.

Interspersed with the regular, weekly hijinks here on the website, I’m going with a baseball All-Star team of my own. In this case, it’s my retro, fishing related MLB All-Star squad. Which means that the players must not only possess a fishing related name but also must appear among my baseball card collection in order to be included. Thus we’ve got a team of greats, pretty goods and still infinitely better than the rest of us ball players who graced the diamond somewhere between 1970 and the early 1980s.

Studs and cool cards but these fellas miss out on my All-Star squad, even that A’s hurler (cool nickname but not real name)

As a result of this criteria, we’ve got no Warren Spahn or Johnny Sain as they were before my time (note: see what I’m up to here Spahn = spawn, Sain = seine, perhaps it’s better if I don’t explain). On the other end of the spectrum, there’s no Mike Trout or Matt CARPenter as such ball players appear way beyond my card collecting days.

Nope, legends but don’t make the cut.

If you’re still here, you may ask, why would I do such a project?

Reason One is when you have your own blog there’s nobody to tell you what you can and can’t do. The flipside, however, is that there is also no one paying you to not write stuff like this and stick to the outdoor straight and narrow.

Reason Two is even better and goes back to the days when I first caught the baseball bug. As a kid in the 70s, the MLB All Star Game was a summertime highlight featuring names like Aaron, Rose, Yount, Rice, Bench, Schmidt, Brock, Ryan, Seaver, Stargell, Brett, Campy, Reggie, Yaz, Catfish…the heroes of my youth (and none of whom make this squad).

Talk about favorites, oh man, these guys are keepers but just don’t qualify and must be released.

The “old days” are always a fun place to revisit and when I get the itch to bring baseball into an outdoor blog, well, I make the stretch (see the “Pops” Stargell card above, loved those landscape cards in some early 70s Topps sets).

Gonna have to milk this one out though as a little too lengthy of a ramble to include in just one post, thus the 10 day head start leading the real All-Star game. The reveal begins tomorrow with a look at the coaching staff. Talk to you later. Troy

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