one year from their destiny – the 1978 topps dodgers in 1977 (part 2)

here’s part 2 of the 1977 installment of the 1978 topps dodgers’ evolution.  it was supposed to run last week but blogger had other ideas.  on with the show.rick monday, who as a cub famously saved an american flag from being burned on the fi…

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there were three players missing from the topps set in 1977 that had been featured in previous sets and then showed up as dodgers in 1978.  vic davalillo was down in mexico until august of 1977, and ted martinez spent the entire 1976 campaign…

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dodger fans such as myself don’t much care for him, either.  he was, after all, the mvp of the 1978 world series – a series in which the dodgers held a two games to none lead.  still, i thank 1998 fleer sports illustrated for giving us a nice…

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thanks to hall of fame sports and their recent dodger days, i now have a ‘for sure signed by him’ copy of steve yeager’s 1978 topps card.happy day.  yeager signed another card for me that i will save for another post. in the meantime, i’ll update …

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1977 was the year i first started following baseball and the dodgers in particular.  it was also the first year i opened a pack of baseball cards.  one pack was all i opened that year before spending all my allowance on packs of cards in 1978…

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alongside such dodger mainstays as vin scully, tommy lasorda, don drysdale, and sandy kofax (yes, pinnacle does not subscribe to the well known fact that there is a ‘u’ in ‘koufax’), pinnacle in 1997 decided to add a few more things that people might a…

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sometimes, tommy lasorda shows up where you would least expect him.  like fielding grounders behind a rookie first baseman on eric karros’ 1993 upper deck sp card.other times, he’s congratulating players as heroes returning to the dugout like tim …

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thanks to his status as a dodger double dipper![this is the thirty-first installment in the double dippers posts.  here are the previous posts – brett butler, omar daal, eric young, nick willhite, chris gwynn, mickey hatcher, dave a…

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rod from padrographs sent me a package recently filled with twinkie goodness.  unfortunately, not the hostess kind with cream filling, but cards of minnesota ballplayers are ok too.  here’s a looksie:2011 topps joe mauer insert of some sort.i…

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whether meant to be checklist filler or prospecting investments, i have never really been a fan of bowman’s attempts at providing cards of players in single a.  by the time it all started in the early ’90′s, i was losing touch with the dodgers’ fa…

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as i mentioned the other day, the lucky follower/promoter of my timeless teams blog would fall in at number 7 on the randomizer.  so, come on down, mr. laws.  you can check him out at my sports obsession, by the way.send me your address again…

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first things first – i have updated last week’s post on the dodger stadium bullpens to correctly identify the back walls as plastic, not metal. thanks to speigel for reminding me.  i alsoadded a couple of cards showing the flora that currently ado…

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24 followers (actually 23 since for some reason i am following the timeless teams blog, too) and 3 links hyping the blog (that i know of) prior to january 8.  thanks to everyone for the support.remember, there’s a steve yeager auto at stake!here’s…

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as you can tell by the title, i had planned to run this post last year.  that’s because i had hoped to clear my scanned folder of the trades i had received in 2011 to start the new year.  i failed.  these dodger goodies came from rhubarb…

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just clearing the queue before the tourney starts, although we’ve seen most of these before.  just not with the autos!i really like this 1973 topps card.  i hope it does well.  that’s dick green lying in the dirt.  he was nice enoug…

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i am almost done with double play cards – at least in terms of weeding out the pretenders from the contenders for the upcoming ‘greatest double play card of all time’ tournament.  i still need to finish the seeding.  my goal is to get this go…

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corrugated metal is all the rage these days in decorating. at least at chipotle.  not blue corrugated metal, though.  check out what the dodger stadium bullpens used to look like, courtesy of orel hershiser’s 1994 upper deck cardand john…

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i am a steve garvey fan, but for now, i find joe torre’s attempt to own the dodgers a tad more appealing.  that is because i can be bought.  sure garvey has returned my ttm requests, but his partner in the dodger ownership endeavor, orel hers…

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box bottom cards are sweet.  they’re like those soup bowls for kids that have a cartoon on the bottom so if you eat all your soup, you get a smiling monkey staring back at you.  except, of course, you know the cards are there before you even …

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…the braves came to town in august of 1996.  thanks, upper deck, for doing it right in your 1997 set.  here’s the crime dog in dodger stadiumand his teammate marquis grissom, also in chavez ravinetwo future dodgers in their future home park…

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today is the day i kick off the ‘timeless teams’ blog.  don’t forget to follow and/or hype the site on your blog by 1/8/12 to earn an entry/entries into a drawing for a steve yeager auto from the set.  now that the shameless plug is complete,…

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so, next month 2012 topps is released.  my new year’s wish is that we see some new blood with the short prints and the vintage legend type inserts.  i really wish gil hodges had been elected to the hall of fame so that topps might have been m…

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hey there! don’t forget that in a couple of days i will launch my ‘timeless teams’ blog – a celebration and critique of upper deck’s 2004 legends set, featuring 300 base cards, on-card autos, fold-out relics, numbered parallels and more.  bec…

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the dodgers did indeed ‘get dusty baker from braves’ as his 1976 topps traded card proclaims.as i mentioned yesterday, dusty hit only four home runs in his debut season as a dodger, but he perservered and rebounded very nicely in 1977.the penguin was g…

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when topps issued its 1976 set, there were still a few players who would become dodgers in the 1978 set who had yet to make the move to la.  or, in one case, topps had yet to show that he had made it to the west coast, as was t…

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dennis lewallyn, a dodger from 1975-1979, is currently working for the cubs as their minor league pitching coordinator.  that’s where i sent a couple of cards last season, hoping that he would sign them for me.  a few months later, i was happ…

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there was so much potential for frank robinson’s 1973 topps card.  it would have been one of the first dodger cards to feature in-game action, and more importantly, would have been his only regular base topps card showing him as a member of the do…

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after facing the dodgers in the 1978 world series as a member of the yankees (he appeared in two games without an at bat), and splitting the 1979 season between new york and san diego, jay johnstone was signed by al campanis as a free agent. &nbsp…

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“only” twice in my lifetime have the dodgers won the last game of the baseball season.  i was 10 in 1981, and 17 in 1988 – the last time the dodgers were in the world series.we are in the midst of the longest world series drought since the te…

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“that’s right. that’s right. atta boy clarence.”this 1973 topps jimmy stewart card came to me courtesy of reader and giant fan jim from northern california, who has sent me cards a few times.  the last package came several months ago, and i am jus…

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no, they’re not sugar plums (whatever those are), but they are still sweet visions of candy for this christmas eve.  i sent some cards down to puerto rico for candido maldonado to sign, and he came through for me.  here’s his 1983 fleer cardw…

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no, they’re not sugar plums (whatever those are), but they are still sweet visions of candy for this christmas eve.  i sent some cards down to puerto rico for candido maldonado to sign, and he came through for me.  here’s his 1983 fleer cardw…

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[this is the twentyninth installment in the double dippers posts.  here are the previous posts - brett butler, omar daal, eric young, nick willhite, chris gwynn, mickey hatcher, dave anderson, don zimmer, rafael landestoy, dave...

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raul mondesi hit a ball down the left field line in the bottom of the 6th inning, and joe randa of the piratescouldn’t quite get there in time.  mondesi doubled, went to third on an error by the left fielder, and was stranded by wilton guerre…

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today is steve garvey’s 63rd birthday.  i am not sure how i feel about that, in the sense that if my boyhood idol is 63, i must be getting on in years too.  anyway, it was a great day for me when i found that the garv signed through the mail….

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