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a while back, i picked up a 1970 kellogg’s bill singer card.  i had been watching ebay for a while, and i was able to get it for a good price, most likely due to the fact that it was just graded as an 8.i think that people who look for graded card…

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a few days ago, nick at the dime boxes blog wrote an interesting post about cards with the most people on them.  he has several great examples, and it got me to thinking.  i immediately recalled this card, a 1997 upper deck ismael valdes card…

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here we are with the second installment of the non-scientific evolutionary chain of the dodgers’ ace.  we left off part one with gomer, and we start part two with don sutton.don sutton (1971-1973, 1976)don sutton, much to my chagrin, is the only h…

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this latest endeavor into the dodgers’ positional evolution is tough.  that’s because ‘ace’ is not really a position but rather a perception.  the dodgers have had a number of great pitchers, and even more decent pitchers who put up amazing s…

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this would be awesome.  i count the cool-a-coo among my fondest dodger stadium memories – right up there with listening to vin scully on my dad’s transistor radio, learning how to keep score, eating dodger dogs, seeing myself up on diamond vision,…

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here is the second installment of my recent trading frenzy with the rhubarb runner.  it’s a wonder what some vintage twins and a couple of sticker autos will bring in return.  first up, a 2002 topps american pie american sluggers insert of th…

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larry over at emerald city diamond gems and the 1979 topps blog recently sent me some dodger cards.  here’s the proof, starting with a 1979 tcma stars of the 50′s george shubai don’t have too many cards of shuba.  he is probably best known fo…

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hey – look at me! i’m hip, quoting (sort of) a song by that dude from ‘the voice’ with the tiny hands.  all to make a pun about former dodger outfielder al ferrara and this recent acquisition of mine – his 1967 topps high number card.no disrespect…

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of course, the order is up to me.  these are some cards i received from the angels in order a while back.  good stuff, including this card which i had neither seen nor heard of.  it’s a 1993 upper deck foldouts card of la’s own darr…

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thanks to crinkly wrappers, i am 9 cards closer to completing the 1971 topps set.three managers, a hall of gamer, and some other sweet cards.  appropriate to showcase the mike cuellar and the world series highlight cards as i am finally getting ar…

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i was digging through some 1984 fleer the other day, pulling cards for a potential trade, when i spied this al holland card.now, anytime i see the padres represented on a card from this era, i hope against hope that steve garvey is the friar present. &…

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well, as vin scully says, ‘for your enjoyment, dodger baseball is on the air!’  i picked up some nice 1955 bowman cards at the monthly card show but held them out of the previous posts for some reason.  perhaps i was planning some grandiose p…

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and here it is!ha!  i’m out of town for a while – posting may be nonexistent for the next few days. hopefully blogger doesn’t shiv with my scheduled oh my o-pee-chee posts though.

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i’m trying to get into the habit of posting trades in more ‘real time’ which means within the same month.  maybe.  i still have a few trades from the past year whose scans have not yet cleared the scanned folder, but i am making progress…

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[this is the thirty-seventh 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, d...

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yes, it is true.  after about a year of seriously pursuing the 1973 topps set, i have come to the point of completion.it’s not a condition sensitive set, but it’s complete.  i actually finished up about a month ago at the big annual card show…

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here are the last of the cards i was able to get signed in person/through the mail thanks to reader cory.  they were signed over the course of a couple of springs and dodger road trips to san diego.  first up is a 2006 topps 52 card signed by…

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yesterday i showed off some of the coaches and retired types that reader cory was able to coax into signing some of my cards for me.  here now are some actual players.  like andre ether, who signed a 2008 topps allen & gingeras well as a …

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it’s good to have connections.  a couple of years ago, reader cory contacted me and let me know that he often attended dodger games in san diego and would also be heading out to arizona to catch some spring training games once the dodgers moved fr…

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ricky horton didn’t spend a whole lot of time with the dodgers, but he was there long enough to win a world series in 1988 and get a very nice 1989 topps card featuring dodger stadium as the background.  he recently signed a copy for me through th…

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i received a few things in the mail one day last week.  there were a couple of individual cards that made me happy.  one was this 1971 o-pee-chee team and text variation of jackie hernandez.note the red lettering.  the more common versio…

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so, i picked up an unexpected card at the show last weekend.  it immediately jumped to the front of my first dodger binder, as it is the oldest dodger card i own.  it’s a 1933 goudey john (bud) clancy.it set me back about 8 bucks.  i app…

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i had been looking for a 1963 topps dave mcnally rookie card for a while, thanks to the presence of dodger ken rowe in the lower right.come on, topps.  can’t we even get an airbrushed logo for our troubles?  the card is, of course, a high num…

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there were plenty of kick ass double play cards in the dime box at the show last weekend.  i splurged and bought a full dollar’s worth.  here’s a 1996 score ozzie smith card with a lurking chad fonville and the first row of the dodger stadium…

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here’s the second part of the 1978 topps dodgers as they appeared in 1979.  we start part 2 with happy hooton.hooton pitched well in 1979.  he had an era of 2.97 in 29 starts, threw a shutout and completed 17 games.  unfortunately, his w…

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we lost ed goodson before the 1979 topps set was released, as his 1978 topps card was a ‘final tribute’.  in 1979, there are five more players who received their final hurrah from topps, one who received a final tribute of their own, one who almos…

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in addition to the dime boxes at the card show last weekend, i stopped by the 4 for 10 relic box.  i found some worthy of $2.50 apiece.  first was this strange 2008 upper deck x adrian beltre cardit’s appropriate that my scanner tilted the ca…

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wanna know what 80 abe lincoln adorned coins will get you at the local card show in the way of mike piazza cards?  here’s one man’s haul.this is a 1993 upper deck fun pack card, touting the italian-american superstar slugger as a ‘star of tomorrow…

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for the first time in a long time, i spent some serious time at a card show with a dime box.  usually i have specific needs i am trying to fill, like vintage dodgers or finishing a set, but earlier today i was willing to do some browsing.  i …

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first – i have updated the first installment in the sportscaster goodness posts which dealt with the dugout seats, keeping score, and vin scully.  i added a link to dylan hernandez’s column from the other day which touched on some of those topics …

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card show tomorrow.  vintage dodgers with or without pinholes might be in my future.anybody need anything?

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steve garvey was featured on two 1977-79 sportscaster cards – the all-star card and one of his own, shown belowthe back is chock full of the steve garvey story highlights – the batboy years, the michigan state years, the 1974 all-star write-in and mvp,…

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over three years ago, i wrote about that iconic 1976 topps card featuring kurt bevacqua and a giant bubble. a true ‘bubble-gum’ card.  well, it turns out that that card was not the only one to address what apparently was an annual contest.  h…

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who would you choose to grace the front of the 1977-79 sportscaster card?  lou brock?  he would have been a good choice, although by the late 1970′s he was no longer the yearly league leader in steals.  omar moreno, then?  ok – or h…

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two and two to harvey kuenn.  one strike away.  sandy into his windup.  here’s the pitch.  swung on and missed – a perfect game!  i never tire of hearing vin scully’s call of koufax’s perfect game against the cubs in september …

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