i'm bronco i'm kevin and this is the card of the day calendar for monday august 8th did you know that today is national sneak some zucchini into your neighbor's porch day who in the world who in the world comes up with a day like that did you know that today is national we got to fill this with something day well it's also national frozen custard day if you're more into that i'll take i will take that in some crazy flavor that'll raise my blood sugar 50 points so no zucchini but yes the frozen custard man you know that's right we also have some scores and highlights so we'll sneak into the right side of your screen so you can dine on that anyway we got some history and i'll let you start on this date in 1969 manny sanghian gets a single a double and a triple to lead pittsburgh to a 7-1 victory over san diego i met him about 10 days ago at pnc park really he actually operates manny's barbecue in the bleacher area of pittsburgh stadium and makes appearances to sign autographs hey look at the card he signed for me it's a 1971 top man that is one of my favorite releases of all time but man it is hard to keep those clean no doubt about that also on this date in 2016 san francisco's brandon crawford becomes the first player in 41 years to record seven hits in a game five singles a double and a triple in an eight seven win over the marlins that took 14 innings the last player prior to that to accomplish the feat was clearly better because rennie stinnett only needed nine innings to do it oh wow on september 16th 1975 since you asked cenet had 1239 hits for a 274 average and an 11 year career spent with the pirates and the giants another one of those chuck tanner era pirates birthdays we got frank howard turning 86 today the four-time all-star and 1960 national league rookie of the year for the dodgers had 1774 hits for a 273 average and 382 homers in 16 years i do love the fact that you've got three different nicknames listed hondo the capital punisher and the washington monument because of his time in washington and i didn't make any of them up i just copied them down nice ron cargovice turns 58 today the 12-year backup catcher mostly for the white sox well i played all those years for the white sox the backup catcher right you've had a 221 with 96 homers they called him the officer probably because he was making sure the other catchers got to where they needed to go i thought you're going to say because you want to make sure the rest of the gentlemen hey and anthony rizzo turns 33 today it's his first full year with the yankees spanning 227 with 27 homers 66 rbis six steals and a current stint on the injured bus yeah that's that's you know there are a lot of folks that don't like his time with the cubs but i think he's become more likable since then he's become more human i'm going to say not too often you go to the yankees and become more like right you're right one of the very few um august is 1989 donors month and we're not going to celebrate don or russ but we are going to celebrate larry sheets larry sheets you know he was not too far removed from that 1987 career year when he hit 316 and 31 homers 94 babies in 135 games that's something for the orioles oh for the orioles how about that actually i thought he was a little bit better i remember him being like a big power hitter for years that was by far the career year in 1989 he was down to 243 with seven homers and 33 rbis and for his career he had just 94 homers and 339 rbis you know we have a lot of these guys and i'm like wow this guy was better than i remember this sorry larry sheets might be the opposite he was much better when he was reincarnated as matt stairs nice well i don't know about you but i gotta go hide some zucchini do you i'm gonna go eat some custard how about that sports