1) Pete Incaviglia is the reason baseball players cannot be traded within one year of being drafted.

2) Somewhere in my parents’ basement, there’s a binder containing some 20 1987 Topps Pete Incaviglia rookie cards. My brother and I thought Pete Incaviglia was going to be totally sweet. He was, but not in the way that would make his rookie card valuable.

3) An old edition of Baseball Prospectus referred to Pete Incaviglia’s position as “Thunderstick of Yore.” I thought this was a particularly cool sounding phrase and tried to sell it on my then-band as a band name: The Thundersticks of Yore. We considered it, but played our only gig under the name “The Lewis Effect” at a festival in Pennsylvania called Ratstock, opening for the long-established Long Island blues-rock band The Good Rats. We sucked.