poser

i was looking through cards in my scanned folder over the weekend and i noticed a few duke snider cards in there. i've posted this one before

it's from 2004 topps tribute and shows snider in the latter brooklyn dodger years with his hands on his knees. then i noticed another card, this one from 2005 donruss signature series

that shows him in the same pose. it's clearly a different photo, but the same pose.

then i saw his 2012 topps tribute and triple threads cards (bronze and sepia, respectively)

and again noted the similar poses in different photos.

none of this is shocking, as there are only so many poses that players can strike (like suttoning), and with the proliferation of card releases we are seeing more photos - or more of the same photo.  this 2021 topps finest legacies insert

recycles one of the snider images and pairs it with a cody bellinger action shot.

action shots are the name of the game these days outside of sets like allen & ginter and parts of stadium club. i wouldn't mind a few more posed shots (with their natural background unlike heritage sets from the recent past) mixed in. 

don sutton doesn't always sutton

he was a pitcher, after all.

i recently acquired a big card for my post-dodger don sutton collection showing him in action as an angel

this might have been (it was) the non-dodger sutton card that i coveted the most due to it being from the awesome 2004 upper deck legends timeless teams release and it being an on-card autograph of the dodger double dipper hall of famer suited up for the american league team from orange county.  it's a short print in the set - only 75 copies - and the only one of sutton's four autographs to have that distinction. i am still missing his 1980 card autograph version, however.

i'll request that you take note that sutton is no older than 42 in that photo. 1970's baseball must have been a hard knock life.

in other sutton news, i submitted a post the other day to kevin at the diamond king regarding the hall of fame righty as part of the “take him or leave him” series kevin is hosting. check it out if you haven’t already. 

the cards i showed in that post are mostly recent pick-ups for my sutton collection, including a 2020 topps series 2 decades’ best

the photo topps used is not from the 60’s.

this is a 2005 donruss signature series k force insert

and this is from 2017 panini chronicles

the last card i showed in that post we sutton’s 1986 leaf card

which was one of my “most wanted” for a short time (or was it his 1987 leaf card?)

no matter, i recently added them both to the collection. 

here are a few more sutton cards i’ve added over the last few months:

1985 topps stickers (with mookie wilson)

 

2005 donruss diamond kings hof heroes framed red parallel

2005 playoff prestige prestigious pros red parallel

2005 upper deck classics classic moments

2006 upper deck sp legendary cuts ultimate legendary materials

i also showed a photo of sutton in that post at the diamond king. 

i promised a separate post here in the future that will address that photo and others like it, and i’m working on it. 

stay tuned.