collecting roberto alomar double play cards is kind of like playing whack-a-mole

just when you think you have them all, some more pop up! i was going to say they were like a bad penny, but they are not a bad thing!

a recent perusal of comc led to me picking up these two cards from sportlots

those are 1991 score blue jays alomar cards, with one celebrating the 1991 all-star game that was played in toronto. you can see alomar turning two on that card with ozzie smith sliding in. the batter on that play was tony gwynn.

here's another alomar double play card that i acquired recently

it's from the 2004 donruss world series blue release, but doesn't feature world series action. i think that is wayne kirby joining in on the action.

of course, there are other double play cards to acquire that don't feature alomar, and i found one in a pack of gypsy queen a few months ago

yes, this shed long card features a double play turn. i promise. as does this 1994 o-pee-chee rich amaral card which, appropriately enough, came from baseballcardstore.ca.

more traditional double play cards are more plentiful, and there was this jose altuve card

included in the 2020 topps american league stars factory team set that i bought and broke apart.

i found a couple more to go with the aforementioned amaral in a recent baseballcardstore.ca order - a 2019 topps big league tim beckham

and a 2012 topps orlando hudson walmart blue parallel

however, sportlots is my main source for purchasing cards of this ilk, and i recently added a few more parallels to the mini collection from that site - 2014 topps chrome orange refractor andrelton simmons

2017 topps chrome ben zobrist

2018 topps asdrubal cabrera rainbow foil

and 2019 topps chrome whit merrifield pink refractor

plus a 1999 upper deck mike lansing card

a 2018 topps stadium club xander bogaerts card

and a 2019 topps stadium club rougned odor card

which is pretty tremendous.

double play cards are by far the most populous of my mini collections, and i know there will be more for me to add, including some roberto alomar cards that will pop up out of nowhere.