bloggers made me do it

i am thankful for the blogging community as it affords me the opportunity to see cards that i would not otherwise see. of course, sometimes seeing is not enough and i have to track down cards to add to my collection. case in point, a while back bo posted about some asa sets, including frank robinson's, which included this card

it's always a good thing to add a frank robinson dodger card to the collection! robby's 521st homer tied him with ted williams for 7th all-time. he would retire with 586 home runs which put him 4th all-time, although he has since fallen to tenth on the career home run leader board. the card sort of reminds me of steve garvey's 1973 topps card in that he was also greeted at home plate by wes parker after hitting a home run.

bo also posted about a yogi berra asa set, and i went out and found my own copy of this card:

berra took over the met managerial duties following the death of gil hodges, and here he is with dodger skipper walter alston.

in one of nick's dime box bounty posts, he showed this 1986 fleer star sticker juan samuel card:

which drove me to sportlots to find one for my dodger stadium collection. i decided to peruse comc to see if there were other cards from the set with the colorful strata of seats in the background, and added this bruce sutter card

to my sportlots order. upon close inspection, the young fan is holding what looks like the back of a 1983 fleer card, i assume to be sutter's. you actually get a closer look at it on sutter's 1986 fleer mini card

which i also added to the order for my dodger stadium collection.

then, night owl posted about his pursuit of the 1986 fleer set, and showed a claudell washington card

i realized that i hadn't mined that set for dodger stadium cards, so off to sportlots i went. the braves had an inordinate amount of fleer cards with dodger stadium used as a backdrop in the early years of that brand.

finally, diamond jesters posted a repack haiku using barry lyons' 1988 donruss card

which was absent for the dodger stadium collection, largely due to the fact that i did not buy any donruss back in 1988 and it's not really a set that gets displayed too often.

thanks to everyone for continuing to blog and show off cards that i didn't know i needed!