look mother's, no legs!

bonus mother's day post!

i've mentioned before that i will occasionally check in on cards that i need for my various player collections, and i did so a few months ago with dusty baker. i found a couple of cards for cheap and pulled the trigger. the first one comes from the 1991 mother's cookies giants set, and features baker amongst the rest of roger craig's coaching staff

when i first saw the card, i thought that dusty might have been added to the photo at a later date because there are only eight legs visible among five men. a closer look revealed ten feet and the understanding that dusty's legs are positioned behind those of norm sherry and wendall kim.

the other baker card i added was his 2002 topps home team advantage parallel

not much to say about it as it is one of the weaker parallels of the era.

the seller of these cards included a freebie - this 1987 mother's cookies dodgers alejandro pena card

it's a duplicate, but i have added it to my dodger stadium collection. there aren't a lot of cards that feature both the diamond vision screen over the left field pavilion and the scoreboard over the right field pavilion, but this card does just that!

later, i added another card from the 1991 giants set.

i don't pc mark leonard; instead i was looking for a good example of the retired number placards at candlestick park. this card was the best i could find in terms of clarity and quantity of the placards. in the background we see christy mathewson, john mcgraw, bill terry, carl hubbell, and willie mays. mel ott's placard is behind leonard. i've added this card as a sort of header to my retired number collection, to go along with a couple others that show how other teams do it. i'd like to find cards showing the murals that the white sox and braves used to have, so if you know of any please help a blogger out!