Jeter, The Mick and The Prez

Here’s the new Jeter card. Great photography!

By Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) – As President Bush smiled and waved from the stands and Mickey Mantle looked on from the dugout, Derek Jeter swung his bat. Talk about pressure.

The game never happened, though. It was just someone’s idea of a visual gag – pulled off in a recent Topps baseball card through digital manipulation.

“Somewhere in between the final proofing and its printing, someone at our company – and we won’t name names – thought it would be funny to put in Bush and Mantle,” said Clay Luraschi, a spokesman for Topps in Tuesday’s edition of the Daily News.

The president’s image is superimposed on the picture, while whoever played the trick took some time blending Mantle into the background of Jeter’s card, No. 40 in the set.

MLB Resources Part III

Okay here goes, my last post on resources for at least until the Daytona 500 is over. Yeah I’m a NASCAR fan, so I have too take a break from baseball for just a few hours.

First up is RotoChamps.com with their tag line “where winners are made”. Good looking layout and they have their 2007 projections available for download. They also have a player tracker feature that I’ll be using this season for one of my teams. Worth your time to check them out.

This next one is BaseballDocs.com and they’ve just put out their 2007 Player Rankings and Cheat Sheets. They have rankings for mixed, AL and NL. Now get this, they go 800 players deep on the overall list!

Baseball Digest Daily is one of those sites that I think every Baseball fan should have bookmarked. Another site that falls into that category is The Hardball Times. You just have to take a look and you’ll see what I mean. Great reading and stats.

Going to finish up with one of my favorites, FanGraphs.com. If you haven’t checked them out before you should really swing by and see what they are doing. One of the added bonuses from the site (on top of the great work they do) is the player linker. If you look at my last post you’ll notice the players are linked…it’s to the player’s stats page at fangraphs.com.

Example- Albert Pujols or Alex Rodriguez. Great feature if you have a web site or blog.

That’s it for now. Next time around I’m going to take a look at where you can find info on Prospects.