Is This Dave Kingman Baseball Card Haunted?

The 1974 Topps Baseball set is known for a lot of things. It was the first time Topps issued all of their cards in one series versus multiple series throughout the year. It also marked the first time Topps would issue their baseball cards in factory set form. Factory sets were sold exclusively through the J.C. Penny catalog. As a bonus for purchasing the set, collectors would also receive the first Traded set which featured players in their new uniforms if they had been traded that year. Key rookie cards include Dave Winfield, Ken Griffey, Sr., Bucky Dent, Frank Tanana, and Dave Parker.

Among the (660) cards, #610 is the most disturbing. Giants first baseman Dave Kingman looks as though he’s swinging his bat in front of a crowd made of ghostly hell demons. What happened to these people? Why do they look like this? What events took place during this game? Is anyone still alive? Has Dave Kingman been questioned? Was this game erased from the record books? Obviously there are more questions here than answers. But I believe this to be one of the biggest sports/hobby cover ups ever.

People who own this card have admitted to witnessing paranormal events. Storage lids popping off their boxes. Album pages flipping on their own. Bleeding top loaders. And that’s just the minor stuff.

Perhaps no story connected to this card is more shocking than that of 31 year old Kevin Clarke. After his father’s death Kevin inherited a baseball card collection. This card was in the collection, and he became obsessed with it. Over a period of time he claimed that the card would talk to him. Telling him to do horrible things. One day he gave in to the card’s demands and went on a killing spree. His victims were always found wrapped in clear plastic mimicking that of a penny sleeve. In some sick and twisted way Kevin may believe he’s helping to protect them from something much like you’ed use a penny sleeve to protect a card. Eventually he was caught and spent 2 years in a mental institution. But due to a computer glitch he ended up being released by accident. The media has given him the name “The Penny Sleeve Prowler”. To this day he remains on the loose.

Topps may have assigned this card #610, but we all know it should be #666.

Pin Highlight: Taber Museum – The Haunted Portrait Of Nellie Tallman – 2019 Little League Pin

The 2019 Little League World Series is right around the corner.  Its only a matter of time until visitors from all over the world flood Williamsport, PA and the surrounding areas.  Along with them will come tons and tons of Little League pins to buy, sell, and trade.

Little League’s official store has already begun selling pins for the 2019 games.  Even some of the pins made by the local businesses have started to surface.  Pins from Legal Insites, Tebbs Farms, and the Taber Museum have all been spotted.  Many more are on the way.

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society showcases artifacts that pertain to the region’s local history.  Each time I attend a Williamsport Crosscutters game I drive past it.  You can’t miss it, because of the lumberjack statue standing outside.

Pins sold by the Taber Museum usually mix baseball with local history.  Their 2019 pin focuses on the haunted portrait of Nellie Tallman.  When Nellie Tallman was 3-1/2 years old her father, an artist, decided to paint a portrait of his daughter.  What should have been a nice father daughter moment quickly turned tragic.  Little Nellie fell out of her high chair, and broke her neck resulting in her death.

John Tallman completed the portrait.  Shortly thereafter something strange began to happen.  The framed piece kept falling off of the wall.  Eventually it was donated to the Taber Museum.  While there, it fell multiple times as well.  To this day Nellie Tallman’s portrait hangs in the Taber Museum across from a painting by her father’s teacher, Severin Roesen.  It seems to have found peace there… for now.  I wouldn’t move it.  Many believe her spirit is attached to that portrait.

Cool or creepy?  Possibly the scariest Little League pin ever made.