tales of an autumn trade

even though it's not quite officially winter, the temperatures here in the twin cities have not been autumnal at all. even when i returned from an extended trip abroad, it was colder than normal. one of the bright spots, however, was an envelope from madding at cards on cards in my pile of mail.

jackie robinson's autumn tales insert

from 2024 topps update was one of the highlights of the envelope. the back of the card tells the story of robinson stealing home in the 1955 world series to ignite the dodgers. topps decided, however, to not reuse an image of robinson stealing home in that series but rather a photo of him scoring the game winning run on june 18, 1952 against the cubs, courtesy of a gil hodges sacrifice fly. the giveaway to me was the number on the front of robinson's jersey. the dodgers only wore those numbers on their home uniforms during their last few years in brooklyn, and i've seen the images of robinson and yogi berra often enough to know that robinson stole home (yes, yogi, he was safe) at yankee stadium.

here's another good one - a shohei ohtani and yoshinobu yamamoto holiday foil parallel

i have to think that at some point topps cools it with these japanese player combo cards, but i suppose it is a way to have more ohtani cards so never mind.

kerry sent me my first look at 2024 topps stadium club with this clayton kershaw base

i'm not really a fan of the design, but i had also ordered some of this product directly from topps so now i have a fair amount of it. you'll see some of that stuff in future posts i am sure.

the other stadium club card in the envelope was a nice green parallel of ohtani

it's numbered to 199. there are green chrome refractor parallels in this year's stadium club, but those aren't numbered. go figure.

kerry still goes for some panini product, and sent me a couple of jorge de paula cards. this one is a blue ice parallel

from 2024 panini chronicles - crusade, and this one is a green laser parallel

from 2024 panini donruss. i've stopped adding panini dodger checklists to my want lists, but i will still gladly accept the cards!

kerry even went into the wayback machine and sent a 2001 pacific eric karros base card

that i needed, and also sent a needed dave hansen gold rush parallel

from 1994 score. i am down to just three or four more needs to complete that team set.

the most obscure items kerry sent, however were stickers from 1991 panini. here's the dodger logo

and here's kal daniels

when's the last time you saw a kal daniels reference on a card blog? i was pretty excited when the dodgers acquired him from the reds, but after a pretty good first year in los angeles, his knees decided that they had different plans for his career.

thanks kerry! i've already put the next envelope in the mail!