Filed under: Baseball cards, Cleveland Indians, Magazines, Major League, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn | Tags: 2014 topps Archives, Beckett Media, Major League, Major League cards, Ricky Vauhgn, Topps
The first 2014 Topps Archives Major League autograph is Charlie Sheen aka “Wild Thing” Ricky Vaughn and Beckett Media’s Chris Olds has the info here:
Filed under: Lou Brown, Major League, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn | Tags: Charlie Sheen, Major League, Sports Illustrated
If you haven’t tracked down the July 4 issue of Sports Illustrated — the annual “Where are They Now?” double issue — then you’re missing out on a whole lot of Major League action.
As in a seven-page feature on the cast and crew recalling moments from the past as reported by Chris Nashawaty.
You can find the story online via the SI website, but you don’t get the full impact without seeing the images and more.
Good job, Nashawaty — that’s reporter I’d not give a big ol’ shitburger to!
Filed under: Major League, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn | Tags: #winning, @charliesheen, autographs, Charlie Sheen, Cleveland Indians, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
Not sure where I stand on Wild Thing these days, but apparently he’s done some autograph signing for us Major League fans to chase.
Will you feel like a winner when you find one? Or are you a bigger winner for going to one of his shows?
I’m not sure if I will. Then again, will he be around much longer? Sad to say it, but …
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Clearly that writer over there is obsessed with my team. Check out all of these stories he’s written. True fanboy, but a “journalist,” too. I need to send him a box of shitburgers. (I got some of his cards of my team back in the day.)
April 6 — Obsessed with Pedro Cerrano.
March 1 — Just read it.
Aug. 11, 2009 — Them’s some nice bats.
June 15, 2009 — Ricky Vaughn Bobblehead night.
April 23, 2009 — He can’t find our cards … help him out.
April 11, 2009 — First mention of Ricky bobbleheads.
Dec. 16, 2008 — More on those bats.
— Lou Brown
Filed under: Lou Brown, Major League, Major League 4, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn | Tags: Charlie Sheen, Major League 4, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn
The notion of Wild Thing showing up in Major League 4 makes me a little uneasy — but not as uneasy as knowing Lou Brown has little chance as me making a cameo.
You can also forget landing one of these caps, either. They’re no longer made.
But I still want one.
But the notion of the movie happening lives on. Check this out.
Filed under: Duke Temple, Jake Taylor, Lou Brown, Major League, Pedro Cerrano, Pepper Leach, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Willie Mays Hayes | Tags: Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Indians memorabilia, Duke Temple, indians major league movie, Jake Taylor, Jobu, Lou Brown, Major League, Pedro Cerrano, People Magazine, Pepper Leach, Ricky Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Sports Illustrated, Wild Thing, Willie Mays Hayes
For all of the things I saved through the years, I never did latch onto copies of People and Sports Illustrated where my guys appeared on the covers.
“Wild Thing” appeared on the Sept. 18, 1988, cover of People, while several of us appeared on a SI cover that fall, too.
Have one? E-mail me…
– Lou Brown
Filed under: Baseball cards, Major League, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Upper Deck | Tags: 1989 Upper Deck, Baseball cards, Charlie Sheen, indians major league movie, Jobu, Ken Griffey Jr., Major League, MLB, Pedro Cerrano, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Ricky Vaughn, Upper Deck, Wild Thing, Wild Thing glasses
Now that Upper Deck is effectively out of the market for Major League Baseball cards, it’s also out of the market for Major League baseball cards, too, and that got Lou Brown thinking about what went wrong along the way.
What if Upper Deck had gone with a different Star Rookie in its inaugural 1989 baseball card set instead of Ken Griffey Jr.? What if my man, Wild Thing had been there instead?
Things would have looked a lot different today. I’m telling you.
— Lou Brown
Filed under: Baseball cards, Chicago White Sox, Jack Parkman, Jake Taylor, Major League II, Pedro Cerrano, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Tanaka, Upper Deck, Willie Mays Hayes | Tags: 1990 Upper Deck, Baseball cards, Charlie Sheen, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Corbin Bernsen, David Keith, Dennis Haysbert, indians major league movie, Jack Parkman, Jake Taylor, Jobu, Major League II, Omar Epps, Pedro Cerrano, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Tanaka, Tom Berenger, Upper Deck, Willie Mays Hayes
Hot off the heels of yesterday’s landmark — some might say exclusive (but it’s much, much bigger than that) — find, we have gotten our hands on the cards that were intended to be in the 1990 Upper Deck baseball set.
These feature the stars of Major League II — a few guys you have heard of and, based on the box office attendance, some guys you haven’t.
(We won’t mention that the sequel came in 1994 — Major League II documents my squad’s second pennant-winning season, which is firmly 1989.)
— Lou Brown
See the rest of the “missing” 1990 cards after the jump.
Filed under: "That bitch" Rachel Phelps, Baseball cards, Charlie Donovan, Clew Haywood, Eddie Harris, Harry Doyle, Jake Taylor, Lou Brown, Mike Rexman, New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Pedro Cerrano, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Upper Deck, Willie Mays Hayes | Tags: 1989 Upper Deck, baseball card, Baseball cards, Baseball movies, Bob Uecker, Charlie Donovan, Charlie Sheen, Cleveland Indians, Clew Haywood, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Duke Temple, Eddie Harris, Harry Doyle, indians major league movie, Jake Taylor, Jobu, Major League, Mike Rexman, New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Pedro Cerrano, Pepper Leach, Rachel Phelps, Ricky Vaughn, Roger Dorn, Tom Berenger, Upper Deck, Wesley Snipes, Willie Mays Hayes
We’ve done some nosing around and have found this exclusive first look world premiere scoop of all scoops — the 14 cards pulled at the last second from the 1989 Upper Deck baseball card set. (Including a card of yours truly, Lou Brown.)
You see, Upper Deck had better things to do in 1989 than include a real Star Rookie named Ricky Vaughn in its inaugural baseball card set. (They instead opted for some bum named Ken Griffey Jr. for card No. 1.)
And they made some other last-second changes to the set — opting to not include managers, bench coaches, announcers and even some Major Leaguers in the 700-card first series.
My team was very, very disappointed. However, after 20 years these “missing” cards have been discovered and can only be found here on my blog.
— Lou Brown
See all of the cards after the jump.
Filed under: Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn | Tags: Charlie Sheen, Cleveland Indians, Darren Rovell, indians major league movie, Major League, MLB, Ricky Vaughn
CNBC’s Darren Rovell has Twittered that tennis star Rafael Nadal has the best fist pump in sports. I — and Ricky Vaughn — care to differ.
Filed under: Baseball cards, Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn, Topps | Tags: 1989 topps, Baseball cards, Charlie Sheen, Cleveland Indians, indians major league movie, Major League, MLB, Rick Vaughn, Ricky Vaughn, Wild Thing
Sometimes it’s the little things that remind you of key moments — like when we finally got Ricky Vaughn some glasses.
Here’s what his 1989 Topps Record Breaker card would have looked like had they not decided to play nice and pull it from the set. After he started giving ’em the heater and was much more successful, the powers that be apparently opted to not pick on my rookie.
— Lou Brown, loubrown2009@gmail.com
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