Keith Comstock’s Rather Wonderful Card

While Keith Comstock’s major-league career is a bit on the undistinguished side, his Las Vegas Stars card — which is absolutely your Daguerreotype of the Evening — is a many-splendored thing. First comes the power, and then comes the glory …

While I suspect that the baseball-to-the-rascal-basket situation — a situation known in some circles as “the nobleman’s pickle” — is a staged pratfall, there’s still much to appreciate about this work of high, higher and highest art. Even so, the romantic in me wants to believe that Mr. Comstock legitimately took one to the pills courtesy of an offstage teammate given to madcappery in all its forms!

For a moment — just a moment — I forgot that all of us will die.

(Well-meaning groin shot: A gentleman named Steve)