sportscaster goodness – the triple play. sort of.

here’s another 1977-79 sportscaster card i haven’t shown before.  it celebrates the ultimate rally killer – the triple play.  of course, it does so by showing a double play turn at second base.i know that this is not a play within a triple pl…

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vin scully started his 63rd year behind the microphone for the dodgers yesterday.  although he is more commonly referred to as an announcer, he is a sportscaster and in his honor i will be posting some fantastic 1977-79 sportscaster cards over the…

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[this is the thirty-sixth 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, dav...

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back when opening day was monday, i often played hooky and either went to chavez ravine or watched a few games on the tube.  wednesday’s are bad for me work-wise, so i won’t be able to sneak off to target field (i don’t even know if the twinkies o…

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do you trust yourself? or do you find yourself questioning whether or not you really did update those want lists?  i, of course, have my want lists linked to my blog (although not all years are represented, and i know that any dodger wants listed …

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i took a quick look through a couple of auto/relic discount boxes at the card show on friday.  i found a certified cesar izturis auto (who knew?) but couldn’t find two other items to make the 3 for $10 worth my while.  i suppose i could have …

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after waiting for two years for someone to make a card of jamey carroll in a dodgers’ uniform, topps finally came through with a carroll card in their 2011 update set.  shortly thereafter, carroll left los angeles and signed with the minnesota twi…

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so, i went to the big card show last night.  no mr. mint, but there were a lot of people who were there to have things authenticated.  i found that strange.  i was there before the doors opened so it wasn’t crowded at all.  there we…

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hey – look at that!  dave roberts and shawn green hanging out in the cheap seats!actually, i am guessing that they were standing in front of a green screen for the photo.  still, this is not a view that is shown on baseball cards, and i appre…

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2.15 billion dollars can do a lot.  i’m not sure that it has restored all of the dodger faithful however.  and i’m not even talking about the fact that 2 billion dollars wasn’t enough for magic and company to be able to tell mccourt to get al…

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there’s a big card show in the twin cities this weekend – a few hall of famers are signing on saturday.  i’ll probably go on friday evening and not worry about that, however, no matter how badly i would like reggie jackson to sign one of his iconi…

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doesn’t this 1987 fleer all-star insert scream ‘star wars’?with the tapered font and the starry sky, i say yes.  it’s much cooler looking than the blue and red backgrounds (i think) in the first go-around that fleer had with these in an earlier se…

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i know i paid little attention to topps heritage last year (and plan to pay even less this year), but i should have been on the lookout for this card – the ‘jeter makes the double play’ cardit is, of course, an homage to one of the best double play car…

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i have been in fairly serious organizing mode lately – a side effect of trying to get the ‘greatest double play card of all time’ tournament set up.  anyway, i came across some cards from the 2004 playoff honors set that i hadn’t previously seen, …

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…these are the first ttm successes i’ve had this spring.i sent out a few autograph requests to spring training addresses earlier this spring, but the mailbox had been completely silent until a couple of weeks ago when i received these cards back. &nb…

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thanks to don who found an amos otis for methat’s a classic ’73 right there with what looks to be a brewers catcher (but likely not ellie rodriguez) in the foreground.  don also sent some parallel dodgers, like this 1995 score gold rush card …

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it used to be that the only dolph camilli card i had was this 2006 upper deck sp legendary cuts cardthat was until i picked up his 1961 fleer cardafter it enjoyed a lengthy stay on my nefarious 9 list.  camilli was the dodgers’ first baseman from …

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not that i really did anything to deserve it, but the sewing machine guy recently sent me this beauty of a cardfor no reason other than i am a dodger collector.  it was nice to see a package arrive unsolicited like that.  i know he’s not real…

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this is my 1207th post on this blog. i’ve missed some days, and even weeks, since starting this blog over 3 years ago.  steve garvey didn’t miss any games during his consecutive games streak which lasted 1207 contests and ended on july 29, 19…

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when i think of tim leary, i think of two things.  first, his 11th inning pinch-hit game winning single against the giants in an august game that is one of my all-time favorite television watching experiences and made me a believer in th…

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this 1990 swell baseball greats card of dodger utility man lee lacy has been sitting in my scanned folder for a long time.so long that i don’t recall why i scanned it.  i know it wasn’t for lacy’s double dipper post, as i try my best to use only c…

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…i was the ‘pitching motion boy’.  i also did batting stances in my front yard – everyone from steve garvey to rod carew to willie stargell and pete rose.  later, i even modeled my high school stance on don mattingly – a little bit pigeonto…

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[this is the thirty-fifth 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, dav...

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i love tom niedenfuer’s name.  more than once i am sure i have recounted the fantastic letter to the editor of the la times that ran sometime after the 1985 nlcs in which the author suggested that ‘there is a certain pitcher we niedenfuer games’.&…

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…this 1958 topps ‘rival fence busters’ cardto this 2012 topps timeless talents cardif a dodger centerfielder has to share space with the say hey kid on a card.  even if the photo is kind of goofy.

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i got carried away with the 1973 topps cards in my last post, and i forgot to mention that royals and randoms also sent me some other cards, including this shiny 2009 topps roy campanella walmart blaster cardand this green-framed border duke snider car…

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i’ve been tending to my 1973 topps want list lately – it’s now down to 40 cards or so – and i have a bunch of doubles, triples and other assorted quantities for trade.  in fact, i went from zero to four glenn beckert cards thanks to a recent lot p…

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he may not have had a card in the 2011 topps set, nor have a team in 2012 (yet), but dodger double dipper dioner navarro is so far taking up space on two topps cards in their 2012 flagship set.  here’s javy guerra’s cardon which navarro is offerin…

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considering that this is the first (and probably last) february 29th post on this blog, i thought it would be appropriate to show this card – dee gordon’s awesomely fantastic 2011 topps update card.  leapin’ lizards, that’s a nice card.let’s …

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last year i decided to try to finish a few 1960 topps dodger team sets.  i knew that there were a bunch of koufax and drysdale cards to worry about, but i didn’t give much thought to the dodgers’ lefty reliever ron perranoski.  i was wrong to…

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you dodger fans out there are probably familiar with the 1979 dodger blue card set.  it is named as such because it was distributed in 1979, and the back says ‘go dodger blue!’ along with some other information.  i am wishing right about now …

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bob aspromonte had a single at bat as a brooklyn dodger.  it came in 1956, and the 18-year old brooklyn native pinch-hit for sandy amoros in the bottom of the 8th inning of a laugher against saint louis.  facing the cards’ don liddle, aspromo…

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try and say that five times fast.  here it is – a 2002 donruss originals big d in black and white and in the style of the ‘postmark’ set, 1984 donrussi would like to believe that the photo comes from dodger stadium, and i think it might given i th…

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let’s finish up the 1978 topps dodgers as they were in 1978.  here’s part 1, in case you missed it and give a rip.  and now for the rest of the storydusty bakerbaker is in the midst of giants, or more likely just a giants’ ballboy, in th…

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although i am splitting them into two posts.  go figure.two new players were featured for the first time in 1978 – glenn burke and lance rautzhan.  let’s start with them.glenn burkeburke debuted for the dodgers in 1976, but didn’t show up on …

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