Cliff Corcoran

@cliffcorcoran.bsky.social

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Book editor, writer, smooth talker, father of a teenager. I wrote about baseball for SI .com, The Athletic, Baseball Prospectus, and elsewhere. Movies, music, baseball cards, uniforms. OF, White Plains Tigers, Bats/Throws: R; Votes: L. North Jersey

Score card & iPad on my tray table. Ignore the errors in the lineup posted by the broadcast (I later fixed them).
The movie poster for Mom and Dad Save the World starring Teri Garr, Jeffrey Jones, and Jon Lovitz.
The backs of six baseball cards with messages like “Handling a bad hop is easy compared to handling drugs,” and “Snag a line drive… and get a put out… try to handle drugs and you’ll be out.”
Photo of some guy who was born a half a century ago (smiling with arms crossed in red T-shirt, jeans, and black Chucks).
Eighteen 1971 Topps cards in two album pages: Sparky Anderson, Pete Rose, Bob Tolan, Tony Pérez, Johnny Bench, Lee May, Bernie Carbo, Tommy Helms, Dave Concepción, Gary Nolan, Jim McGlothlin, Jim Merritt, Wayne Simpson, Tony Cloninger, Wayne Granger, Clay Carroll, Dan Gullett, and Hal McRae.
2008 Topps Theodore Roosevelt Lilly
Stephen Colbert and “Weird Al” Yankovic dance on the penultimate episode of the Late Show. In the foreground: an empty package of double stuf Oreos and a mostly empty glass of milk.
A tweet from me from Sept. 12, 2025: "Also, @StephenAtHome joining musical guests was funny on Report as an ego-driven move by the character. W/o character just seems intrusive." Colbert had taken a verse of "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" from Paul Simon in the show I had just watched.
Tweet from me from September 12, 2025: "1-10 grades for @colbertlateshow's first week: Tue: 4, Wed: 5, Thu: 9, Fri: 7. Biden interview will go down as a signature moment." The Biden interview, in which Stephen Colbert and Joe Biden shared deep emotions about the grief they'd experienced in their lives, was on the Thursday show.
A tweet by me from September 9, 2015: "Surprise! Best part of the first @colbertlateshow was a Trump-based desk segment done Report style. Is it wrong to say 'more of that pls?'"
Mel Brooks as Van Helsing
A young, slightly sweaty Leonard Bernstein conducting in high-waisted pants and a shirt undone to his sternum, an intense look of focus on his face, a damp curl against his forehead, appearing to signal a moment of suspense or anticipation in the music with his hands lightly clenched into loose fists and held just above his waist.
Amid nine nearly identical posts from MLB Transaction Bot reading "[Position, Player] changed number to 42" is one from me reading "OF Cliff Corcoran changed new fort's name to 42."
Jerry Lee Lewis in 2008, age 73, in a black jacket in front of a microphone and piano, looking very much like the now-64-year-old Axl Rose in the clip at the top of this thread.
Garfield, Nov. 9, 1986, a Sunday strip with 7 panels: 1) Garfield offers Jon a snack. 2) Jon: "Why, thank you, Garfield." 3) Jon: "Dog food! Quick! Gimme Something to Drink!" 4: Jon: "Hot Sauce! I'm Burning Up!" 5: Jon gulps down the water Garfield gave him. 6: Jon: "Goldfish water! Antidote! Antidote!" 7: Jon: "AARRGH! ANCHOVIES!!" Garfield, breaking the fourth wall: "This could go on for days"
MLB headshots of 30 players who switched teams this offseason, one on each team, arranged in a 6x5 grid. From top left going across then down: Brendan Donovan (Mariners), José Quintana (Rockies), Josh Bell (Twins), Luis Rengifo (Brewers), Dylan Cease (Blue Jays), Ranger Suárez (Red Sox), Luis Arraez (Giants), Jeff McNeil (A's), Munetka Murakami (White Sox), Alex Bregman (Cubs), Framber Valdez (Tigers), Ryan Weathers (Yankees), Kyle Tucker (Dodgers), Nolan Arenado (Diamondbacks), Eugenio Suárez (Reds), Shawn Armstrong (Guardians), Brandon Lowe (Pirates), Freddy Peralta (Mets), Grayson Rodriguez (Angels), MacKenzie Gore (Rangers), Matt Strahm (Royals), Dustin May (Cardinals), Adolis García (Phillies), Pete Alonso (Orioles), Walker Buehler (Padres), Tatsuya Imai (Astros), Cedric Mullins (Rays), Pete Fairbanks (Marlins), Robert Suarez (Atlanta), and Zack Littell (Nationals)
1990 Upper Deck Jeff Hamilton, Rex Hudler, Bob Ojeda, Von Hayes & Ken Oberkfell, 1992 O-Pee-Cher Premier Deion Sanders, 1992 Donruss Junior Felix, 1988 Topps Howard Johnson, 1965 Topps Elston Howard, 1949 Bowman reprints of Bob Hofman and Marino Pieretti, 1951 Bowman reprint of Sal Maglie, and 2025 Topps Yoshinobu Yamamoto
A hot pink cap with a baby-blue button & bill and white front panels with a cartoon of a Happy Waitress (grilled cheese with tomato and bacon) with the four baseball bases toasted into the top piece of bread.
Two album pages containing the following 18 cards (all but the first are landscape-oriented): 1960 Topps Walt Alston, Jim Gilliam, Charlie Neal, Wally Moon, Duke Snider, Norm Larker, Gil Hodges, and John Roseboro, 1961 Post Cereal Maury Wills, 1960 Topps Don Drysdale and Johnny Podres, a reprint* of the 1960 Topps Sandy Koufax, 1960 Topps Roger Craig, Danny McDevitt, Larry Sherry, Stan Williams, Don Demeter, and Chuck Essegian. Hodges, Roseboro, Drysdale, Podres, and Koufax are not wearing caps in their primary card photos, which annoys me. My apologies to Carl Furillo, Don Zimmer, Ron Fairly, and Clem Labine. *I have Koufax's 1961, 1964, and 1966 cards. I just couldn't make my self go past my usual spending limit to get an original of this capless card, which I've never much liked.
Larry Doby’s 1954 Bowman card. The picture is taken from inside the visitors’ dugout on the third base side of Yankee Stadium, with Doby, sitting on steps facing the camera, holding a bat on his left shoulder in his road Cleveland uniform and the infield and right field, including the famous frieze behind him.
A line graph spanning 2025 on the x axis and 150 to 210 pounds on the y axis showing the jagged but dramatic decline in my weight from Jan 2 to early October (with a few gaps and upward jumps representing vacations), a slight rise in October and November, then a sharp drop in mid December (I had the flu) and finally a modest decline at the very end of the year.
Robin Yount in the Brewers' early '80s powder blues in his follow-through at the plate in a game against the White Sox at Comiskey Park. I believe the catcher is Marc Hill.
The new Twelfth Edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, with a handsome, red, cloth-over-board cover with white and gold print and the title under an elegant glyph in a debossed circle.
The four members of glam-rock goofballs Slade: Guy in a tweed cap with bushy chin-length sideburns; guy with a unibrow, buck teeth, and the weirdest mullet you've ever seen; relatively ordinary guy in a stripped blazer and T-shirt; relatively handsome fellow with good hair, a cleft chin, and a feathered collar who is also the tallest member of the band.
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (album cover)
Me as on stage as lead singer of Joanie Loves Trotsky drenched in sweat and holding the mic out to the crowd at a small club gig, early 2003.
Replica of P-Funk’s Mothership at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew in the lab.
Two nine-card baseball card album pages with the following cards: 1964 Topps Johnny Keane, 1965 Topps Curt Flood, Lou Brock, Bill White, Ken Boyer, Dick Groat, Tim McCarver, Mike Shannon, Dal Maxvill, Bob Gibson, Curt Simmons, Ray Sadecki, 1964 Topps Roger Craig, 1965 Topps Ron Taylor, Barney Schultz, Julian Javier, Bob Skinner, and Carl Warwick.
A wide shot from behind home of a Double-A game in Somerset, New Jersey on July 4 at the magic hour.
An adorable merle cattle dog mix curled up in a dog bed looking back over her shoulder at the camera.
A 1965 Bob Gibson Topps card screwed into a hard plastic slab with an ugly “Hall of Fame” caption in green text on a cut out piece of paper, an old $19.90 price tag, and several surface scratches.
Several angles of South Korea's 2023 WBC uniforms, which used a navy blue-and-red color scheme.
Photograph of me around 6 years old using an electric typewriter.
A “No Kings” protest sign outside a Kings grocery store.
The back of Ricky Jordan‘s 1994 Topps card which reads: “After having his jaw wired shot went hit by a line drive in 1992, Ricky missed solid food so badly he made a seafood “milkshake“ in a blender, drank it—and got sick.”
AI Overview: The query likely refers to baseball players Willie McCovey, Cliff Corcoran, and Wil Myers. Willie McCovey was a prominent Hall of Famer, known for his hitting power with the San Francisco Giants. Cliff Corcoran and Wil Myers are also baseball players. Elaboration: * Willie McCovey: A Hall of Fame first baseman and outfielder, McCovey played 22 seasons for the San Francisco Giants, and earned the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1959 and the NL Most Valuable Player Award in 1969. He hit 521 home runs over his career. * Cliff Corcoran: A former baseball player who played professionally from 1973-1985.
My “everything beagle” Luna, a merle cattle dog mix, fast asleep in a dog bed, body curled up, legs outstretched to form her sleepytime paw pile.
A line graph of my weight since March 30 showing a big spike and drop around April 8 and a four-pound gain during my mid-month trip to New Orleans followed by the immediate losing of some but not all of that weight (yet!).
Cheap Trick bassist Tom Petersson playing his 12-string Gretsch bass in concert.
Me imitating the pose on the cover of David Bowie's Heroes album.
Me imitating the famous photo of Johnny Cash flipping off the camera at San Quentin but raising my then-recently dislocated ring finger instead of my middle finger.
The 1983 Topps card of Mariners 1B Jim Maler showing Maler in the Mariners' road powder blues with a white-front helmet. Maler is also wearing the helmet in the insert headshot.
Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen
Moe Berg in a bathrobe looking through the viewfinder of a handheld movie camera.
4 x 5 grid of my top players used in Immaculate Grid. 525 total players used. Top players: Martín Dihigo (8x), Bobo Newsome (8x), Sam Bankhead (7x), Ginger Beaumont (7x), Jason Giambi (6x), Lennie Pearson (6x), Hoyt Wilhelm (6x), Goose Gossage (5x), Mike Torrez (5x), Orlando Cepeda (5x), Honus Wagner (5x), Earl Averill (4x), Goose Goslin (4x), Al Simmons (4x), Sparky Lyle (4x), Lloyd Waner (4x), Kid Nichols (4x), Graig Nettles (4x), Bob Watson (3x), Cap Anson (3x). I'm sure there are many others I have also used three times.
Two, nine-card baseball card album pages. Left page, top row, L–R: 1960 Topps Casey Stengel, 1957 Topps Hank Bauer and Billy Martin; second row: 1957 Topps Mickey Mantle reprint, 1957 Topps Yogi Berra, Bill Skowron; third row: 1957 Topps Elston Howard, Gil McDougald, Andy Carey. Right page, top row, L–R: 1957 Topps Whitey, Ford, Johnny Kucks, Don Larson; second row: Tom Sturdivant, Bob Turley, Tommy Byrne; third row: Enos Slaughter, Joe Collins, Jerry Coleman.
1957 Topps Yogi Berra in off but acceptable condition.
Cover of Elvis Costello's album "Almost Blue."
A 6x5 grid of 30 player headshots. From left to right, top row: Donovan Solano (SEA), Thairo Estrada (COL), Harrison Bader (MIN), Nestor Cortes (MIL), Anthony Santander (TOR), Garrett Crochet (BOS); second row: Willy Adames (SFG), Luis Severino (OAK), Martín Pérez (CWS), Kyle Tucker (CHC), Gleyber Torres (DET), Max Fried (NYY); third row: Roki Sasaki (LAD), Corbin Burnez (AZD), Brady Singer (CIN), Carlos Santana (CLE), Spencer Hortwitz (PIT), Juan Soto (NYM); fourth row: Yusei Kikuchi (LAA), Joc Pederson (TEX), Jonathan India (KCR), Nick Anderson (STL), Jesús Luzardo (PHI), Tyler O'Neill (BAL); bottom row: Nick Pivetta (SDP), Christian Walker (HOU), Danny Jansen (TBR), Cal Quantrill (MIA), Jurickson Profar (ATL), Nathaniel Lowe (WDC)
Thurman Munson’s 1976 Topps card showing the Yankee captain at Spring Training in his home pinstripes with a full (and well-groomed) beard.
A portrait of former A's pitcher Mike Fiers in game action in September 2019 with a beard, roughly an inch thick throughout, that traces his jawline down the right side of his face, proceeds under his chin, up the left side of his mouth, and finishes in a mustache. His left cheek is clean shaven, and the mustache stops at the right corner of his mouth
Filled-out Immaculate Grid with the categories of "Played Left Field," "Played Center Field," and "Played Right Field" across the top and "Hall of Fame," "All Star," and "100+ RBI Season" down the left side. Answers: Top row L to R: Jud Wilson (0.01%), Martín Dihigo (0.2%), Cristóbal Torriente (0.09%), Middle row L to R: Oscar Charleston (0.02%), Sam Bankhead (0.002%), Lennie Pearson (0.002%), Bottom row L to R: Jason Giambi (0.09%), Honus Wagner (0.1%), Johnny Callison (0.1%).
A still from the broadcast of one of Rickey Henderson's last games in 2003, his 25th major-league season. Henderson, 44, is on the right of the screen, back to camera in the outfield wearing #25 for the Dodgers. On the left is a graphic that reads: Rickey Henderson - Rules for a Long Career 1. Run 3-5 Miles every other day 2. Do 200 sit-ups & push-ups a day 3. Stretch before bedtime 4. Eat plenty of ice cream
Jim Lefebvre’s 1966 Topps card, which shows the Dodgers second baseman and 1965 NL Rookie of the Year from the waist up in his right-handed batting stance at Shea Stadium. Lefebvre’s number 5 is visible in blue on the back of his road jersey and in red on the front.
An anonymous player wearing the Chicago Cubs' new powder blue alternate jersey, which has an ornate red number on the right breast and a red, white, and blue Cubs logo, with "ubs" in blue, on the left breast and is paired with a cap with a white front panel with a red, white, and blue logo and a blue bill.
Max Fischer leaving an elevator with a Rushmore Beekeepers box in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (scene set to the Who's "A Quick One, While He's Away").
16 baseball cards in album pages: 1955 Bowman Al Lopez, Al Smith, and Bobby Avila, 1954 Bowman Larry Doby, 1955 Topps Al Rosen, 1955 Bowman Vic Wertz and George Strickland, 1955 Topps Jim Hegan, 1955 Bowman Early Winn, Mike Garcia, Bob Leman, Art Houtteman, Bob Feller, and Ray Narleski, 1955 Topps Hal Newhouser, and 1955 Bowman Don Mossi.