Two Truths and a Lie: Baseball Card Edition

     I'm a night owl for sure (not to be confused with Night Owl, lol). All my best thinking happens late at night. For example, I've been working for awhile now on a creative writing project, and most of my best writing occurs between 10:00 and 11:30 at night.

    Anyway, the idea of doing two truths and a lie with baseball cards came to me at 11:09 a few Tuesdays ago (I know because I started writing this post then). The thought of playing a game and using baseball cards in a post appealed to me.

    Here's how I envision this going down. I'm going to pick three cards, and show them off on the blog. They may be chosen randomly, but more often than not I'll use players of the same position. Then, I'll take the player from each card and give some form trivia about him (injuries, college stats, children, etc.). However, for one of the players I'm going to be a filthy liar. Some of these facts may be super obvious, and some not so much. I really don't know. Bonus points to those who don't look it up online.

    At any rate, I should know pretty soon whether or not this is a good idea. So without further ado, let's begin our first game of Two Truths and a Lie. Get your detective hats ready, folks, cuz here we go!

    

    For today's game of Two Truths and a Lie, I've selected three second baseman from the Topps flagship sets of 2023, 2024, and 2025. The topic for today is major league firsts. Here they are:

2023 Topps #56

        Jermaine Palacios made his first career double play in June of 2022 on a ground ball hit by Spencer Torkelson. He was playing shortstop at the time.

2024 Topps #177

    Jonathan India gets hit by a lot of pitches. The first time he was ever hit was in his second-career major league game, when Jake Woodford hit the second baseman in the bottom of the fourth inning.

2025 Topps #191

    Adael Amador stole the first base of his career in a 2024 game in June off of Cardinals pitcher Andrew Kittredge.

    I realize that this may have been pretty difficult. If I continue making these posts I'll get a feel of how hard to make them. Nonetheless, good luck on guessing which player I lied about! I will announce on my next post which was the lie.

    Please let me know if you liked this idea and if you would like to continue seeing Two Truths and a Lie on the blog. Have a great week, thanks for stopping by, and happy collecting!