Cara’s Cards

05/30/2026

With Junk Wax Sal – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉

05/16/2026

05/15/2026

I absolutely adore her! So I would be over the moon to pull her auto.

But I get why people like Junk Wax Sal think this is lame.

Anne Hathaway has Philadelphia Eagles autograph cards in Topps Finest Football 🦅

04/18/2026

⚾️On April 17, 1972 “Kiteman” flops at The Vet. In 1971, the Philadelphia Phillies rang in the new season by having their backup catcher catch a ball thrown from a helicopter. In 1972, the Phillies booked a man who skydived off cliffs with a kite on his back to deliver the first pitch at Veterans Stadium. But the players went on strike and delayed the start of the season by a full week. "Kiteman," as the Phillies had advertised him as, had prior arrangements when the season began and was unable to deliver the pitch on opening day. Desperate for someone to fill his place, the team hired Richard Johnson (a hardware store owner who occasionally flew kites in shows) to be the new Kiteman. And so it was on opening day that Kiteman stood atop the center field stands, more than 38,000 people watching anxiously. The plan was for Johnson to hop on the giant 140-foot ramp that had been set up, ski down it, become airborn, and deliver the ceremonial game ball to Philly mayor Frank Rizzo, who was waiting at home plate. But as Johnson surveyed the scene, which had become complicated with a surge of wind, he started to have second thoughts. The P.A. announcer announced Kiteman several times, but the man simply stood at the top of the ramp, frozen in fear. The Phillies fans started to boo. Finally, coaxed by the dissatisfied crowd, he slowly began his descent. Johnson made it halfway down the upper deck when a gust of wind blew him off the chute and into the seats, where tumbled for several rows before he reached the railing. Kiteman was unharmed. Feeling the need to fulfill his obligation, he attempted to hurl the ball to home plate. Instead, he threw it into the Phillies' bullpen. The Phillies, not deterred by the fiasco of 1972, attempted the stunt multiple times in later years, with similar results. It wasn't until 1990, according to the book Veterans Stadium: Field of Memories, that Pete Bonifay (the fourth man to don the Kiteman moniker) actually delivered the ball from the bleachers to home plate. He repeated the stunt in 1995, 1999 and 2003.⚾️

04/16/2026

Should be in the Hall of Fame—F**k Scott Rolen!

04/05/2026

Big things coming to Moosic…

Super excited to announce a new agreement with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders— the Moose is bringing several shows to PNC Field in Moosic!!

We’re talking:
100+ tables
Food
Activities
And a whole lot more

This is going to be something special for the entire community and collectors alike.

Stay tuned… you’re not going to want to miss this

03/08/2026

Someone needs to tell the players they are caring too much

02/14/2026

The Phillies announce that the Nick Castellanos Bobble Beer giveaway has been cancelled

02/02/2026

Dear Meta,

F**k you and your sh*tty algorithms! That were triggered by my calling, Fanatics a monopoly on Junk Wax Sal’s post.

You never got me more followers anyways. Just another sad attempt to extort money out of small businesses to fund, Albino android boy, Zuck.

01/02/2026

Lenny Dykstra in the local news here in NEPA.