27 February 2012,
(Updated 20 August 2016)
Welcome to “Curly W Cards” my blog devoted to
baseball cards and memorabilia related to the current Washington Nationals and the various earlier baseball clubs that
called Washington D.C. their home. Technically the “curly W” wasn’t developed
until 1963 with the American League 1961 expansion team that was the second
team to be called the Senators (The
franchise would move to Texas to become the Rangers in late 1971) I plan to include cards and players from the
earlier Senators and Nationals teams as well. I will
occasionally mention or show cards from players from the Twins or Rangers who
played for the Senators or who are
connected to the DC teams in some way. Since the current franchise was formally the Montreal Expos a few of those guys may
appear from time to time as well. The main focus will be the DC based teams and the players from those teams.
At first I
didn’t want to do yet another blog. I already have a personal non-card blog and
another card blog. (Technically I have two card blogs one of them is associated
with and attached to a trading card forum) Keeping up with one blog is work
enough but two or three?
I sort of
wanted to do a blog devoted to my homie sports teams. I then decided that
concentrating just on the baseball would be good enough. I did a little looking
around and didn’t see any card blogs devoted to the Nationals (there are plenty of blogs about the team but they are
not CARD related), there are card blogs for most of the other MLB teams and
some bloggers are casual fans of the Nationals
or collect one of the team’s players, but nothing seemed to be just the Nats. I thought of a few different
names to call the blog including “Washington Wax”, “DC Wax”, and “Washington
Natators.” I finally came up with the name “Curly W Cards” and didn’t see that name being used. There is a “Curly W” blog but as I said it is not
card related.
I will try
to keep this up and going fairly regularly but it will not be one of these “Card-A-Day” type blogs. I would be lucky enough to make it a “Card of
the Month Club” type blog. I don’t have the digital stamina for a daily. Plus
that requires a bit more time (a lot of it planning and pre-planning) than I
have to devote to this undertaking. I probably shouldn’t do this one or most of
my other projects. Occasionally posts on here might be duplicated on my other
card blog, or that one will duplicate this one. I will try to update a minimum
of once a week. For my regular blog I have done well with once a month and my
other card blog I do in spurts so I haven’t been each and every month for that
one.
Thank You,
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