Wee Hours Baseball

The Brewers and Dodgers kept us baseball fans up very, very late Tuesday night as Game 5 of the NLCS went past 2 am here on the East Coast, with Los Angeles beating Milwaukee, 2-1, on a single by Cody Bellinger in the bottom of the 13th.

                                              Topps #42 Cody Bellinger Mother's Day Pink Parallel 

The boys from La La Land must've realized that as it was actually Wednesday morning in Brooklyn, their original baseball home, and that it was the Happy Baseball Birthday! of the late Jim Gilliam, the All-Star 3rd Baseman who won a World Series playing with both the Brooklyn Dodgers (1955), and then  after the team moved to Los Angeles, won 3 more rings. (1959, 63, 65).

                                                             1959 Topps #306 Jim Gilliam


The series is now tied at 2 games each, with Game 6 later on today as Clayton Kershaw takes the mound for the Dodgers against the Brewers Wade Miley.

■■■■ During this marathon playoff game I had time to read lots of blogs that I follow, and find some new ones to add to the list as well.

⚾️💻⌨ The newest blog theme making its round is writing a blog post in 5 minutes.

Here's a few I read...

Baseball Card Breakdown.

The Pedestrian Collector.

Scribbled Ink.

The Shablotnik Report.

⚾️💜❤ Since October 1st we've been following Collecting Cutch as he brings us PINK Andrew McCutcheon baseball cards in hopes of brining attention to Breast Cancer..... here's a post by  $30 A Week Habit in support of Cutch.

🎬🎥 As we celebrate the great game of baseball and all things #SaveTheBoobies let's remember the great Rita Hayworth on what would've been her 100th Birthday!

If you've seen the movie Shawshank Redemption you'll remember Rita as the original poster on the wall of prisoner Andy Dufrene.


Enjoy your Wednesday baseball everyone!

PLAY BALL! ⚾️