Friday Afternoon Knuckleballs

Very late…very abbreviated.

Quick Hits

• Colby Lewis (3-0, 1.93 ERA) takes the mound tonight in Cleveland facing Jeanmar Gomez (1-1, 2.35 ERA).
• The newly acquired Johnny Damon will start in left field and lead off for the Indians tonight.
• Josh Hamilton will return to the lineup tonight, but Adrian Beltre will not as Alberto Gonzalez will get the start at 3B.
• Hamilton was named the AL Player of the Month for April and Yu Darvish was named AL Rookie of the Month.
• According to T.R. Sullivan, the Rangers are 5-0 in games Lewis has pitched against Cleveland.

Take me to the Card Shop

This is a new highlight of the Friday update in which I’ll take a look back at a Rangers baseball card from years past.  No specific angle here.  Baseball cards were a huge part of my childhood, and one of the first ways that I went about showing my allegiance to the great game and my favorite players.

1990 Classic Julio Franco – As a kid, I loved this card simply because it captured “the stance”.  I remember countless backyard or sandlot baseball games with friends where many of us would emulate the stances of our favorite players.  Julio’s was always one of them.

Have a good weekend!