Links

John Olerud Links - Websites related to my favorite baseball player.

• Career Hitting Stats - Compiled by Major League Baseball (mlb.com)
• Wikipedia Biography 
• Olerud Retires - John Olerud retired from professional baseball on December 6, 2005. He did so in much the same way that he played the game - without much fanfare. Only a few short articles like this one reported his retirement.
• Starting Early - The John Olerud Hall of Fame Case - A nice article discussing Olerud's chances for induction into the baseball Hall of Fame. Ultimately he didn't make it, but this article breaks down the stats that say he might be more deserving than most think.
• The Jordan Fund - A charity founded by John & Kelly Olerud and named after their daughter Jordan. The Jordan Fund's mission is to provide support for special needs children and their families.

Hobby Sites

• FreedomCardBoard.com - An excellent community to join for hobby talk, collection show-and-tell, trading, or just about whatever other card-related interests you might have. Home of the best BGS group submission there is.
• TradingCardDB.com - (Trading Card Database) A site for cataloging your collection, listing cards for sale/trade, and indicating cards you're looking for. An excellent trading site, it also is a great resource for identifying cards, as it contains over 2,000,000 scans. It's crowd-sourced site overseen by administrators in which the checklists and scans are contributed by users. 
• BaseballCardPedia.com - Another great resource for set information, checklists, etc. Also crowd-sourced similar to Wikipedia.
• teamsets4u.com - Huge selection of baseball team set checklists. Most of what's listed is also for sale.