Bru

@brubaker.bsky.social

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h-town, baseball freak, dumb posts, sincere posts, sincerely dumb posts. he/him

The meal I was served at the Children’s Museum today: two beverages (I was told milk and iced tea), chocolate cake, and beans.
A mockup logo for my glove repair side hustle, stylized like the Brewers glove logo but it reads “bru”
A Wilson A2000 baseball glove from 1959, after full restoration. This is an interior view. The glove is being worn on a hand and shown to the camera. The “Pro Model” shooting star logo is visible in the palm.
Fox scorebug graphics showing that Kylian Mbappé has scored 19 goals in 19 World Cup games.
Danielle Solzman @solzyatthemovies.com This is genocidal rhetoric from the White House. (Screenshot of White House press release) Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump's Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity The White House June 30, 2026 12:43 AM • Jul 3, 2026
Danielle Solzman @solzyatthmovies.bsky.social ••• Just blocked an account with 77K followers who quote posted a recent post and then a lot of pro certain org accounts started, well, you get the idea. They didn't have any issues with a certain someone endorsing a certain someone. Too many of them had a trans emoji. 12:43 AM • Jul 3, 2026
Danielle Solzman @solzyatthmovies.com When David Duke is praising DSA candidates, it ought to be seen as a wake- up call.
An unlaced baseball glove rests on a cutting mat with a piece of cut leather, a cardboard template, a pen, and a box cutter.
Josh Hader’s entrance lights and video at the Astros game tonight
The bases loaded at the Astros game, right before Yordan Alvarez hit a grand slam.
An install technician moves our new dishwasher into its place.
Nokona TST30 baseball glove after cleaning, conditioning, and relacing. This is an interior view, the glove is resting on a bookshelf.
Mizuno MTS-1 baseball glove after conditioning and relace, interior view. The glove is sitting upright on a shelf.
A freshly cleaned, conditioned, and relaced Rawlings XFCB17 baseball glove endorsed by Brooks Robinson. The glove is held open to the sun outdoors; the green branches of a plant create a dynamic backdrop. The pink wall of a coffee shop is in the upper right corner.
1960s Wilson A2280 endorsed by HOF 2B Nelson “Nellie” Fox, post clean, condition, and relace. Interior view. The glove is on my hand.
A revived Wilson A2280 baseball glove is flexed, displaying its renewed condition.
Wilson A2280 glove endorsed by Hall of Famer Nelson “Nellie” Fox. This dates to the late 50s/early 60s. Freshly cleaned, conditioned, relaxed with chestnut lace, and reinforced with a layer of 5oz craft leather in the palm. Interior view.
My 9yo walks down the beach shortly after sunrise, facing away from the camera. The surf rolls gently in from the left, mirrored by a cloud bank in the sky. The wind carries her hair toward the shore.
Four of the baseball gloves I’m working on, post-cleaning and set out to dry. Clockwise from the top left: Nokona TST30 Dick Williams Wilson A2280 Nelson Fox Rawlings XFCB17 Brooks Robinson Mizuno MTS-1
IG post from @footyemporium displaying the Swiss National Team’s training facility “map” at the San Diego Jewish Academy. There’s an area marked “Training Pitch, an area designated the Goalkeeper Area, and the majority of the non-playing area is marked in red with the words, “SNAKE AREA.”
Nielsen’s Delicatessen on Richmond Drive in Houston. It is a small white building with a deli counter, a register, and a few stools along the window, and not much else. It’s adorned with an awning with a red stripe, some red and white Christmas lights, and serves fantastic sandwiches.
Eight baseball gloves from the 1960s/70s on a wooden floor. They have been stripped of their laces in preparation for cleaning, conditioning, and relacing.
1967 Wilson A2000 baseball glove, interior view. Note the cross lacing in the fingers and the extra layer of leather sewn in on the heel, those along with the (faint) W logo in the palm help with the dating.
Wilson A2280 Nelson Fox Autograph Model baseball glove, interior view. This is a smaller glove at 10-10.5 inches, but you could definitely play middle infield with it. Fox notoriously liked a smaller glove for quicker access to the baseball on a double play.
Box full of baseball glove lace
View from the right field seats at Daikin Park in Houston.
Quoted text from the article in the post below. Santa had to settle for securing the final six outs of Houston's 9-0 victory against the Texas Rangers. Three groundouts, two lineouts and a game-ending strikeout of $162 million outfielder Brandon Nimmo left Santa with his arms outstretched and awaiting a mob from his teammates on the pitcher's mound. After it dissipated, slugger Yordan Alvarez approached a still-stunned Santa. "Santa, you don't know what you just did, " Alvarez told him. "I know it's something historic."
Nokona DH Roy Face glove, interior view
A half dozen baseball gloves I’m going to restore, laid out on a wood floor. Top row, left to right - 1959 Wilson A-2000 (already unlaced and washed) - Nokona TST30 “Tex-Size-Trap” trapeze web endorsed by Dick Williams - Nokona DH Pro Line endorsed by Pirates hurler Roy Face, with Fingerlock on back Bottom row, left to right - MacGregor GF10 Pro-Custom Field Master, pro quality glove from the mid 60s which I’m redoing for a guy in my brother’s shop - Spalding 42•3055, a meaty mitt endorsed by Sal Bando - Rawlings XFCB17 Wingtip endorsed by Brooks Robinson, a lovely 60s era 3B mitt. This is a lefty version I’m restoring for a friend in Atlanta.
Meme of sign on scaffolding which reads NO LEAD IS SAFE
A 1998 Upper Deck SP Top Prospects card of Kerry Wood, signed in blue sharpie. I got this via a through the mail autograph request in 1998.
Screenshot of OP topped by a surprised Peggy Hill in a nun habit.
Sports Illustrated cover from 2009, featuring a 16 year old Bryce Harper
Broadcaster Mark Grant shows off the Mason Miller bobblehead the Padres will be giving away next week during tonight’s broadcast. Miller’s throwing a flaming baseball and there’s a sign that reads “Speed Exceeds 104” at the base.
Incineroar Pokémon from Pokémon Go. He’s a fire cat who stands on two legs and has a fiery belt that looks reminiscent of a wrestling belt, and stands in a beckoning “come at me” pose.
List of baseball players interred in Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia, per Baseball Reference.
Davey Lopes cards available: 1988 Topps, 1987 Donruss, 1987 Topps, 1988 Score x2, 1981 Topps
Photo of the NASA broadcast of the Artemis landing. The crew module is in the upper left, bobbing in the ocean and awaiting crew extraction. NASA Director Jared Isaacman is speaking to a reporter in the lower left. In the background, an absolute stud is rocking shades and a Turnstile t-shirt.
8th Wonder Brewery’s Doam Foam cream ale.
Selfie with Josh Hader
TMNT logo with “Teenage Militant Atheist Self” text substituted
A tortie cat sitting on a couch, looking into the camera. She has a meridian line down her face.
A tortie cat rests her head on my arm as we recline on the couch
A signed 1970 Topps card of Lowell Palmer of the Philadelphia Phillies. He is in a signature “preparing to pitch” pose with his hands in front, and is sporting a pair of dark sunglasses.
My Pokemon Go trainer code, if you wanna be buddies 150745898972
A collection of Ray Brubaker’s Zee-Nut cards from his time in the Pacific Coast League with the Oakland Oaks.
You wouldn’t steal a car meme with text that reads “you wouldn’t fuck a waffle.”
A view of the ballpark in Houston from the upper deck, as seen from the first base side.
AL West baseball caps arranged to spell ASSHAT
A coffee mug rests on a counter in front of a plate of eggs with spinach. The mug has the word Coach on it and an illustration of Garfield in a sweatshirt which reads COACH and a backwards hat. A mouse has grabbed his whistle and is blowing it.
An autographed 8x10 portrait of Athletics pitcher Bobby Shantz, obtained via a through the mail request. Mr. Shantz added a “1952 A.L. M.V.P.” inscription.
A 1954 Red Man card of Bobby Shantz, signed by Bobby and received via a mail request. He has piercing blue eyes.
Screenshot with text from the linked article at MLB.com “Everything you need to know about the new ABS Challenge System” https://www.mlb.com/news/abs-challenge-system-mlb-2026 How is the ABS strike zone measured? Like the plate, it is 17 inches wide. The top end of the zone is at 53.5% of the player's height, while the bottom is at 27% of the player's height. The depth of the zone is 8.5 inches from both the front and back of the plate to its center. How does this compare to the human umpire zone? The umpire-called zone has generally been more rounded and more lenient to pitchers, with a 55.6% max up top and 24.2% minimum at the bottom.
Three autographed baseball cards signed by Will Wagner, which I received via a TTM (through the mail) request. The top is a custom card I made of him and his dad Billy Wagner. Beneath that are his 2025 Topps card with the Blue Jays and a 2025 Topps Chrome card with the Padres.
A selection of Jeff McNeil cards from 2019 Panini Leather & Lumber Rookie Baseball Signatures Green auto 4/5 Rookie Baseball Signatures Red and Blue auto 1 of 1 Rookie Baseball Signatures Black Gold auto 16/25 Leather & Lumber Triple Relics Leather & Lumber Signatures Blue auto relic with Jersey and bat pieces, 1/50
MLB Gameday visualization showing that Eduardo Rodriguez’s fifth pitch barely nicked the corner of the zone for strike three.
Cinnamoroll items in the Igloo store: a travel mug, two lunch coolers, and an old school flip-top playmate cooler.