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Cliff Corcoran
@cliffcorcoran.bsky.social
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Book editor, baseball writer, smooth talker, father of a teenager. MLBTR Newsletter (free, weekdays), Baseball Prospectus, ex-Athletic/SI.com. Movies, music, baseball cards, uniforms. OF, East Brunswick Padres, Bats/Throws: R; Votes: L. North Jersey
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Post you from a different era (c. 2003)
Me as on stage as lead singer of Joanie Loves Trotsky drenched in sweat and holding the mic out to the crowd at a small club gig, early 2003.
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hellhole it is.
Replica of P-Funk’s Mothership at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
August 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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My favorite doctor and companion.
Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in the lab.
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Latest completed two-page team: the 1964 World Champion Cardinals:
Two nine-card baseball card album pages with the following cards: 1964 Topps Johnny Keane, 1965 Topps Curt Flood, Lou Brock, Bill White, Ken Boyer, Dick Groat, Tim McCarver, Mike Shannon, Dal Maxvill, Bob Gibson, Curt Simmons, Ray Sadecki, 1964 Topps Roger Craig, 1965 Topps Ron Taylor, Barney Schultz, Julian Javier, Bob Skinner, and Carl Warwick.
July 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Nice night for a ballgame. @somersetpatriots.bsky.social
A wide shot from behind home of a Double-A game in Somerset, New Jersey on July 4 at the magic hour.
July 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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My car/phone must know it’s Debbie’s birthday. ❤️🎤
July 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Luna in her usual spot by my desk:
An adorable merle cattle dog mix curled up in a dog bed looking back over her shoulder at the camera.
June 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Not a grading slab. Still, freed this ‘65 Bob Gibson and reunited him with his championship-winning teammates (and for less than that sticker price!).
A 1965 Bob Gibson Topps card screwed into a hard plastic slab with an ugly “Hall of Fame” caption in green text on a cut out piece of paper, an old $19.90 price tag, and several surface scratches. That same 1965 Gibson Topps card looking sharp sitting next to the now-empty slab.
June 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Korea is always a highlight of the WBC uniforms. I missed the lighter blue, but 2023 was still sharp, and had a racing-stripe element (photo montage from my WBC uniform review here:) www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...
Several angles of South Korea's 2023 WBC uniforms, which used a navy blue-and-red color scheme.
June 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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This is who runs this account.
Photograph of me around 6 years old using an electric typewriter.
June 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I guess I missed this when it dropped, but this is straight out of Spın̈al Tap. It's of a piece with the "Smell the Glove" cover described in the movie & the actual "Bitch School" single cover from 1992 (below), the latter of which used canine-themed doggerel (sorry) to lampoon hair-metal sexism:
The cover of Spın̈al Tap's 1992 single, "Bitch School." Against a red background, a scantily clad female model in red lipstick, high heels, fishnets, a black-leather-and-chains S&M outfit, and a mortar board is on all fours and being led on a chain that is attached to a dog's paw, which is obviously fake and toward the top of the photo, as if the dog were standing on two legs. The song's lyrics are all dog-themed double entendres. The song was likely inspired by a combination of Britny Fox's "Girlschool" (1988) and Axl Rose saying that "I Used to Love Her" (also 1988) was about his dog.
June 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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My town’s Town Hall is opposite a grocery store, and thus:
A “No Kings” protest sign outside a Kings grocery store.
June 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Did someone say Ricky Jordan?
The back of Ricky Jordan‘s 1994 Topps card which reads: “After having his jaw wired shot went hit by a line drive in 1992, Ricky missed solid food so badly he made a seafood “milkshake“ in a blender, drank it—and got sick.”
May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Here's an entry for the A.I. Search Files. Trying to find an old article I wrote, via Google, I got the below. Note that that those playing dates don't match the career of any of the Corcorans on B-Ref, none of whom was named Cliff. (Though, I have played in a local rec league since 2022.)
AI Overview: The query likely refers to baseball players Willie McCovey, Cliff Corcoran, and Wil Myers. Willie McCovey was a prominent Hall of Famer, known for his hitting power with the San Francisco Giants. Cliff Corcoran and Wil Myers are also baseball players. Elaboration: * Willie McCovey: A Hall of Fame first baseman and outfielder, McCovey played 22 seasons for the San Francisco Giants, and earned the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1959 and the NL Most Valuable Player Award in 1969. He hit 521 home runs over his career. * Cliff Corcoran: A former baseball player who played professionally from 1973-1985.
May 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Here’s a fresh photo of my writing partner in her usual spot to the right of my desk:
My “everything beagle” Luna, a merle cattle dog mix, fast asleep in a dog bed, body curled up, legs outstretched to form her sleepytime paw pile.
May 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Update: So, I weigh the same today that I weighed on March 30, but I wouldn't call it a plateau. A week-long trip to New Orleans (and a few too many meals out prior to that) resulted in a month that looked like the graph below. Hoping to get back on track in May. Up to 60 sit-ups & push-ups daily:
A line graph of my weight since March 30 showing a big spike and drop around April 8 and a four-pound gain during my mid-month trip to New Orleans followed by the immediate losing of some but not all of that weight (yet!).
May 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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It's four sets of three. Weird looking thing:
Cheap Trick bassist Tom Petersson playing his 12-string Gretsch bass in concert.
April 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I still can't figure out where Cash's left hand is in that original photo. Here's the Heroes pic, which I took in tribute after Bowie's death in January 2016:
Me imitating the pose on the cover of David Bowie's Heroes album. The cover of David Bowie's album "Heroes."
April 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I love this. Having done this a few times myself via similar DIY methods--for Bowie's Heroes cover, Johnny Cash flipping off the camera (below) & my current avatar--I appreciate the attention to detail in these.
Me imitating the famous photo of Johnny Cash flipping off the camera at San Quentin but raising my then-recently dislocated ring finger instead of my middle finger. Jim Marshall's famous photo of Johnny Cash flipping off the camera at San Quentin State Prison in 1969. Marshall had asked Cash to take a photo "for the warden."
April 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Opinion seems pretty heavily against the stupid, 1982-Mariners-looking helmets/caps the Royals are wearing with their powder blues this season.
The 1983 Topps card of Mariners 1B Jim Maler showing Maler in the Mariners' road powder blues with a white-front helmet. Maler is also wearing the helmet in the insert headshot.
March 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Not him, but this guy for sure:
Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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They cast Paul Rudd as this man:
Moe Berg in a bathrobe looking through the viewfinder of a handheld movie camera.
March 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Since I got a new computer around Thanksgiving:
4 x 5 grid of my top players used in Immaculate Grid. 525 total players used. Top players: Martín Dihigo (8x), Bobo Newsome (8x), Sam Bankhead (7x), Ginger Beaumont (7x), Jason Giambi (6x), Lennie Pearson (6x), Hoyt Wilhelm (6x), Goose Gossage (5x), Mike Torrez (5x), Orlando Cepeda (5x), Honus Wagner (5x), Earl Averill (4x), Goose Goslin (4x), Al Simmons (4x), Sparky Lyle (4x), Lloyd Waner (4x), Kid Nichols (4x), Graig Nettles (4x), Bob Watson (3x), Cap Anson (3x). I'm sure there are many others I have also used three times.
March 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Latest completed two-page team, the 1956 World Champion Yankees (the Mantle is a reprint, but only the Mantle):
Two, nine-card baseball card album pages. Left page, top row, L–R: 1960 Topps Casey Stengel, 1957 Topps Hank Bauer and Billy Martin; second row: 1957 Topps Mickey Mantle reprint, 1957 Topps Yogi Berra, Bill Skowron; third row: 1957 Topps Elston Howard, Gil McDougald, Andy Carey. Right page, top row, L–R: 1957 Topps Whitey, Ford, Johnny Kucks, Don Larson; second row: Tom Sturdivant, Bob Turley, Tommy Byrne; third row: Enos Slaughter, Joe Collins, Jerry Coleman.
March 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Got him, without breaking my limit:
1957 Topps Yogi Berra in off but acceptable condition.
March 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM