You will rarely ever hear me tell someone that a particular article is a “must read,” however you will want to read Scott Fragale’s article on Hank Aaron’s 755th home run ball. Fragale’s article is an in-depth timeline laying out the period when Aaron hit the historic round tripper to the sale of the historic treasure.



Lelands’ spring auction ended last week and the results are in… The Honus strip card went unsold because it didn’t meet the reserve. The Mantle game-used jersey did sell for 100k and the Musial shirt sold for 50k…
The boxing pieces also did quite well.


On a personal note, over the weekend I was visiting some friends in Milwaukee. On Saturday we decided to drive 30 miles to the Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha. This was the first time I have ever bet on a dog or even a horse race.

I have to study up on dog-racing gambling strategies, as the first four out of five dogs I bet on finished in dead last. I tried analyzing the stats in the event program, watched the dogs before the race to check their demeanor, anything I could think of.

Nothing seemed to work. Then, for my last bet, I picked the dog that had the coolest name. The little guy won. Guess there isn’t much of a science to this dog-racing thing.