Welcome
Sometime in the 1980's, a village store owner in a rural Ontario town, decided to sell baseball cards. Long story short, it resulted in the creation of this website.
Where it all began...
It was the summer of 1987 that the owners of this site first spent allowance, chore money and any loose change at ‘Cortina’s’, on the iconic wood grained 1987 Topps cards of that season.
The rest is history, that over time, will be archived on The Flash/Frost Card Board (FFCB).
Out of Left Field
A growing collection of random thoughts, notes and stories from over 60 years of combined baseball fan and card collecting experiences!
Swing and a drive, get up ball, get up ball! It's gone!
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Taylor: “Well, then, I guess there’s only one thing left to do.” Dorn: “What’s that?” Taylor: “Win the whole fuckin’ thing.”
—Jake Taylor, Major League
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Nolan Ryan
Two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy called Nolan Ryan “the only pitcher you start thinking about two days before you face him.”
Ryan’s career lasted a record-tying 27 seasons, and his fabled fastball never seemed to wane. When he retired, he had amassed 324 wins to go with all-time records for no-hitters (seven) and strikeouts (5,714).
Ryan’s career began with the Mets organization in the mid-1960s, and he helped New York win the 1969 World Series. But It was not until his trade to the California Angels following the 1971 season that Ryan began rewriting the record books.
