cards from cards from the quarry

i am sure most of you are aware that johnny, who hosts cards from the quarry, went on quite a tradeaway spree earlier this year.  his sunday pwe trade bait posts focused on serial numbered cards - one per team per post - which was pretty cool in my opinion. i was able to claim some cards and complete trades with him. let's see some of what i was able to bring home!

the first card i claimed was this 2008 upper deck spectrum takashi saito orange parallel card

it's numbered to 399. with this claim, i worked out a larger trade with johnny that netted me even more dodger goodness! those extra cards included this 2012 topps opening day ted lilly blue parallel

this 2014 topps opening day hyun-jin ryu blue parallel

this 2015 topps brandon mccarthy gold parallel

this 2015 topps update yasmani grandal gold parallel

and this 2017 topps enrique hernandez gold parallel

each of these are numbered parallels, so maybe i was poaching from future giveaway posts.

johnny included some additional dodger cards from 2020 panini diamond kings for me - walker buehler squires

and gallery of stars cody bellinger

and mookie betts

cards.

from there, i continued to make claims off and on. here are some of the cards that came my way as a result:

2015 panini crown royale pee wee reese silver #/75

2017 panini donruss kenley jansen gray border #/199

2016 topps archives adrian gonzalez blue parallel #/199

2012 topps opening day erick aybar blue parallel #/2012

2019 topps eduardo nunez gold parallel #/2019

2006 upper deck future stars eric gagne purple parallel #/1799

2019 panini donruss dennis santana 150th anniversary #/150

2020 panini donruss alika williams/bobby witt jr american pride silver parallel #/349

and finally, a 2003 donruss studio vladimir guerrero spirit of the game #/1250

i've laid claim to a couple more cards that are waiting to be sent but i don't mind waiting. i know that life tends to get in the way sometimes.

thanks johnny! i hope things slow down for you so you can have more time to post and trade!

hong-chih kuo the distance

not all team collectors are blessed with an icon with a name so amenable to puns, and so i have tried and failed to live up to the high standard set by matt at bob walk the plank.  i'll try to do better with some cards he sent me last year to wrap up one of our many blind trades.

here's hong-chih kuo himself, 

on a 2006 upper deck sp authentic card.  it's an auto, but it's also kuo's base card.  i'm glad i'm no longer a set collector.  i had a hard enough time as a kid trying to figure out if the bump wills error was needed for my 1979 topps set to be complete (i decided that it was needed), so these short print 'base' cards would really chap my hide.  topps even killed me a bit as a team collector in 2012 with the super short print dodger variations in update that year.  that was the last year that i separated out my flagship and traded dodger team sets from the rest of my dodger cards.

moving right along, here's a 2008 upper deck spectrum rafael furcal and jeff kent dual swatch card

which reminds me that i figured by now i would be typing 'hall of famer jeff kent', but he's not getting the votes that i thought he would.  if i were to vote next year, he'd be in my top ten, but just barely, so that may explain why he's only at around 16% with other players also vying for a limited number of votes.

this next card features a hall of famer - it's a 2008 upper deck sp legendary cuts mike piazza/russell martin relic

that would be better for this dodger collector if piazza were featured as a dodger.  kind of a passing of the torch thing.  however, the point of the card is not to be team specific so i shouldn't nitpick.

last card is this 2008 upper deck premier trio relic card featuring james loney, russell martin, and takashi saito

james loney will always be remembered fondly by me for his grand slam in game 1 of the 2008 nlds against the cubs. the cubs were up 2-0, and were cruising to some degree, but then ryan dempster walked the bases loaded in the fifth and loney went deep.  i don't think the cubs recovered from that unlikely home run, and the dodgers swept them to reach the nlcs for the first time since 1988.  now they just need to get over the nlcs hump.

thanks for the cards matt - i'm sorry it took so long to post (so long, in fact, that matt has already posted the cards i sent him after i received these).  i'm eagerly awaiting the next round of trading!