Comments on: Pepe Frias and Pepe Mangual

By: davidhwillis

davidhwillis — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:11:21 +0000

My lasting memory of Pepe Frias is his 1978 APBA card. Somehow, despite only garnering 17 plate appearances that year, Frias ended up as one of the 26 players on APBA’s ’78 edition of the Expos. What made it more interesting is that Frias, never confused with a major league hitter, had one of those beautiful small-sample-size fluke seasons. Three extra base hits, two doubles and a triple, in those 17 PAs. Resulting a beautiful, and probably unique, distribution of power numbers among the 36 results on his card: 2-2-6-6-6-6.

Also noteworthy, with no walks and 1 sacrifice fly, Frias belongs to the obscure club of “My OBP is lower than by batting average.”

By: Catfish326

Catfish326 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:12:05 +0000

11. Pepe Frias is a hard worker, and a great guy. Read: http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0708-02.htm

By: ellen9

ellen9 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:05:51 +0000

10. Thanks for the Donruss info site. Now I’m off on a tangent! Heading 120 degrees off the first base line. . . .
I just read this:
News Brief-Goya Opens Concession At Yankee Stadium
Friday, Apr 13, 2007 5:00 AM ET
GOYA FOODS, THE LARGEST HISPANIC-OWNED food company in the U.S., is bringing the taste of Latin America to historic Yankee Stadium this season. . . .
The season-long sponsorship includes a permanent porch sign in left field, a promotional day on July 31 and the operation of a Latino food concession stand featuring food made with Goya products and ingredients.

The aptly named “Salsa on the Go” is located at the Food Court on Field Level, Section 20 and will offer Cuban sandwiches with Plantain Chips, Chicken in Salsa with Rice and Beans, Beef or Cheese Empanadas, Sweet Plantains and beverages in flavors like Mango, Passion Fruit and Guava.
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Okay, time to “monetize” this cards en espanol thing. . . .

By: Benaiah

Benaiah — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:54:14 +0000

9. 8 - That is actually the one night of television that I can't miss. I love all of those shows, but tonight I will be in the air, so I guess I can miss it.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:37:44 +0000

8. 6 “T.V. The opiate of the masses, but … also their religion?”

Interesting question. I’ll have to consult Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life, you know, just as soon as I get done watching “Comedy Night Done Right” on NBC tonight.

7 Ellen (author of the always illuminating Palimpsest NYC–see link on this page in the “Riffs, Spiels” section) asked: “is there another universe of Spanish-language baseball cards out there somewhere?”

I don’t know about other countries (is there a Fidel Castro rookie card somehwere in Cuba?), but in 2002 Donruss introduced some cards en espanol:
http://tinyurl.com/jp3v5

By: ellen9

ellen9 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:29:52 +0000

7. Otis Nixon – now that was a speedy pinch runner. On my late 80s Stratomatic team, Otis made some great appearances, sprinting from base to base quite successfully. He didn’t stand still waiting for the sun to explode, nosiree. That man got a move on.

Unfortunately, I have no recollection of the two Pepes, but the whole issue makes me wonder about some kind of alternate universe of Cardboard Dios en Espanol – is there another universe of Spanish-language baseball cards out there somewhere?

By: Benaiah

Benaiah — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:13:51 +0000

6. My favorite is that after thinking hard about existence you have to go watch some T.V. The opiate of the masses, but is it also their religion?

By: spudrph

spudrph — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:29:57 +0000

5. This post made my wife giggle. She still likes to refer to a man advantage in hockey as having "Pee-Pee Men!" (It comes from a graphic on an old computer hockey game-she saw "PP" next to one team, and I explained what it meant. So ever since then, if she sees me watching hockey, she'll ask where the PP Men are.)

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:37:48 +0000

4. 3 Hi chancellor. Thanks for checking in, old pal. I don't know much about the advertising. (I don't know if it's really "smack in the middle" of posts.) I guess it helps pay to keep the Toaster site rolling.

By: chancellor

chancellor — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:37:22 +0000

3. I am very tempted to advertise on this site, as you obvioulsy want me to do, what with your "come hither" advertising box smack in the middle of your latest posting. And since this blog is "a popular and highly respected member of the baseball blogosphere" I don't know how I can refuse.