Will Elmore got an unusual text on Monday. Then he got it again and again. Seemingly everyone he knew was watching the Home Run Derby, and when the broadcast flashed to a zoomed-in shot of Philadelphia Phillies reliever Matt Strahm’s waist, Elmore’s phone lit up with photos of his handiwork: a belt made of Strahm’s baseball cards.
Strahm beams as he holds it up. “It takes 14 cards,” he explains, then walks through the first three. “This is my first Phillies card, this is the NLDS card, this is an image variation. That’s my favorite one, ‘cause I’m doing the ‘I love you’ sign to my daughter.”
