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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama.
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- - - - "YOU'RE THE TOPPS" December 3, 2003 Anyone who's ever collected baseball cards will remember the sentence or two on the back (often accompanied by a cartoon) detailing interesting (and also not so interesting) facts about that player. Before the days of twenty-four-hour sports networks, this might have been the only way fans could discover that Mets pitcher Jesse Orosco "enjoys painting and sculpturing." Below are several actual examples from baseball cards of the seventies and eighties; in these, however, a word or phrase in each has been converted into an anagram. Here's one example: Ed Ott, Catcher, Angels
Reading this, you could correctly deduce that Ed Ott had the shortest name in baseball, no matter whatever else you might have heard. And to the Brits and Aussies who will no doubt be angry for the States-centric nature of this week's puzzle, don't sweat it. Hardly anyone in America remembers these blokes either. Send your answers to carltondoby@hotmail.com by noon on Friday, December 5. The winner of a McSweeney's book will be chosen at random from the correct entries. - - - - 1. Rick Waits, Pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers
2. Bill Campbell, Pitcher, Philadelphia Phillies
3. Steve Lake, Catcher, Chicago Cubs
4. Craig Swan, Pitcher, New York Mets
5. Bob Davis, Catcher, Toronto Blue Jays
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