Lost Time Is Not Found Again: Aug. 25, 2009

By Ryan Corazza

Lost Time Is Not Found Again is what the MPS blog crew has been reading today. Maybe.

+ The best players currently wearing each number from 0 to 99. {Rumors and Rants.}

+ Jim Traber vs. Bill Simmons. It’s on! {Awful Announcing.}

+ A look at the Rockets’ mid-size roster, and its place in history. {Basketball-Reference.}

+ Tim Tebow hits a minor-league baseball promotion. {Tim Teblog.}

+ Non-sports: Guitar Hero 5 lets you be Kurt Cobain. {Stereogum.} Facebook conversations used as evidence in exam cheating case. {TechCrunch.}

Quotable:

“The image of Griffey that became part of collecting lore, with his blue turtleneck and ‘fro-mullet tucked beneath his cap, was doctored. In his home office in Corona, Calif., 75 miles north of Upper Deck’s headquarters, Tom Geideman hands me a Polaroid that had been sitting atop a binder of Griffey cards and says, “This—it’s cut off a little bit—but this is the original photo.” Griffey’s wearing the navy-blue hat of Seattle’s Class A affiliate, the San Bernardino Spirit, whose logo is a silver S over a red star. The picture was taken by the late V.J. Lovero, an Angels team photographer who shot Griffey and his father for a Sports Illustrated feature in 1988. Lovero sold one of his extras to Upper Deck, which airbrushed the hat royal blue, erased the star, made the S yellow and—ta-da!—completed the makeover.” – The Last Iconic Baseball Card, Luke Winn, SI

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