Comments on: Brian Asselstine

By: sly jones

sly jones — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:40:14 +0000

21. The combination of the "heart" shape and what looks to be sergeant stripes above it reminds me of some of the logos used for the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" movie. But I'm really free-associating on that one.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:24:01 +0000

20. 19 : Always interesting to have the picture fleshed out by a hometown fan. Thanks for that.

By: sansho1

sansho1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:21:44 +0000

19. Brian Asselstine was the first player I ever heard described as "knowing only one way to play". As ever, that "one way" was "all-out, all the time", often to his detriment. He tore up his ankle getting it caught in the outfield fence in Atlanta, and by fence I mean chain-link. They added an outer plexiglass layer the following year. Too late for Mr. Asselstine, who hung around for years being called what might have been, but I don't know. We had pretty low standards for prospects up until then (although that was about to change, thanks to Murph). I think it's likely that Asselstine was Ryan Freel without the speed. (The heart-shaped thing on the shoulder is the bottom half of a rather mystifying interpretation of a feather)

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:00:25 +0000

18. 10 : This card has been at the top of the pile for months, and for most of that time I also was seeing his last name as "Asseltine" instead of the awkward actual spelling with that third "s": "Asselstine." 11 : Despair was on speaker phone, weeping.

By: Ennui Willie Keeler

Ennui Willie Keeler — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:12:26 +0000

17. Those Braves unis look so softball that there almost cool.

By: Eric Enders

Eric Enders — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:53:13 +0000

16. How many other caps have featured lower case letters, anyway? We have the Braves and Brewers already mentioned above. I feel fairly confident in asserting that the Angels used a lower case "a" back in the day. Any others? And I wonder why the Orioles never felt compelled to use "B.O." as the Brewers used "M.B."?

By: Eric Enders

Eric Enders — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:47:29 +0000

15. The "MB" was brilliant. But the Expos "M" was really a crime upon humanity, and, I have no doubt, a major reason the baseball fates saw fit to sweep the team clean from the face of the earth. It looked like "elb." There's no way you could get an M out of that.

By: spudrph

spudrph — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:35:15 +0000

14. 12 Oh, and Brent- it took me decades to see the glove on the old Brewers logo as an lower case "m" and "b". Felt stupid when I finally saw that.

By: spudrph

spudrph — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:34:08 +0000

13. Giggling like a schoolgirl here. Brilliant stuff. Even when you think you have nothing, you have something.

By: Brent is a Dodger Fan

Brent is a Dodger Fan — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:48 +0000

12. That old Atlanta hat with the lowercase ‘a’ always threw me. That, and the lowercase, multicolored ‘m’ from the Expos hats… They just bucked the trend of capital letters on the caps, had a funny cursive look to them, and just didn’t compute in my head…

It doesn’t make sense to me now, but when I was six or eight or whatever, these things perplexed me. I literally didn’t recognize the ‘m’ on the Expos hat as an ‘m’.

Oh, and Josh, you neglected to tell us if Despair was in attendance or not. I would think he makes regular contributions…