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Happy Nerd Year!

Happy New Year from everyone at Nerd Central. Sadly enough, when I ran a Google image search for “Mets” and “champagne,” the best picture is this old:

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Renaissance?

We all know that nerds in baseball are on the decline. Hopefully, this trend is about to stop. Yesterday, the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays signed 16 year old Czech phenom Štěpán Havlíček. After seeing what...

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Online quiz + baseball = nerdy

As a recently unemployed nerd, I discovered a fantastic time waster of a site called Sporcle, which consists of hundreds of quizzes on dozens of topics. My favorite quiz was baseball related (of...

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Bill Bonham / Shirtless Man

I am posting this card not as evidence of the nerd-era in MLB, but as evidence of the “we don’t give a crap” attitude of the Fleer company in the early 1980′s. Not only is Mr. Bonham featured in a...

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Mike Schmidt – Home Run King

“Oh wow, it’s baseball card picture day today?  I had no idea…I just happened to be carrying these large trophies with me today. Dammit, they’re so big and heavy, let me put them down and I’ll be right...

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Joe Sambito

Mr. Sambito was off to an amazing career as a relief pitcher before being derailed by an arm injury that required Tommy John surgery.  In his first five full seasons, he posted ERA+’s of 154, 108,...

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Memorial Day

On this Memorial Day, we here at Nerd Central want to pay tribute to all those who have died in service of our nation.  In their honor, we are using today’s post to commemorate the eight major league...

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Nerd Football?

I know posts have been irregular lately, but I wanted to mark the opening of the football season with something you just don’t come across every day…a picture that would qualify as “nerd football.”...

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“The awesomely weird art of 1800s baseball photography” from io9

Professor Nerdtron found this amazing article from the website io9.com. Apparently, in the late 1800′s, baseball players would create “action” shots by posing in a portrait studio around suspended...

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The All “Aquatic Animal Name” Starting Lineup

At Fenway Park this Sunday, something magical happened.  No, not the Mariano Rivera tribute.  A discussion took place in which my friends and I wondered if we could fill out a lineup card using only...

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