the almost daily dodger - odalis perez

there was a point in the summer when i was getting pretty obsessed with colored topps chrome refractors, especially those from about 16 or 17 years ago. i wound up picking up one from 18 years ago for my collection - odalis perez's 2006 topps chrome blue refractor

it's not as impressive in hand as the 2007 topps chrome blue refractors, but it's still nice. some of the other refractors i picked up around that time included a gold 2004 topps chrome cesar izturis refractor

a base 2005 topps chrome traded jeff kent refractor

and a black jose valentin refractor from the same set as kent's card

black refractors are always sharp.

back to odalis, however. it's been over two and a half years since he passed away, but i still think of him from time to time. he was kind enough to hand over a baseball from the dodger dugout during a game at anaheim stadium so that we would have a ball for each of the kids that my friends and i were at the game with. my son got a ball during pregame, and i caught a ball from nomar as he left the field at the end of an inning for one of the other kids. in one of the latter innings, the guy i was sitting next to was chatting up perez in spanish and got him to toss us a ball. all three kids were happy! thanks odalis!