one down, still nine to go

i am back with another one of my most wanted cards obtained. the list is dead, long live the list!  here is the latest of these cards to finally make its way to my collection - 1994 upper deck orel hershiser electric diamond parallel

so much blue! the corrugated fiberglass panels that surrounded the dodger bullpen at dodger stadium are long gone, but we have cards like this one to remember it by.  i'll get to the back of the card in a bit...

here are the facts about this card:

position on the nefarious 9 list: 3

how and when was it obtained? this card was part of sportlots order that landed in my mailbox on january 10, 2026

how long was it on the list? it predated my current tracking, so that means it was a most wanted card for more than ten months (march 12, 2025 was when i started these posts tracking the list)

why was it on the list? this card was one of three that i needed for this parallel dodger team set. i was (and am) a big fan of the 1994 upper deck set with the phantom zone inset photo. it was a big departure from the first five upper deck sets and i was there for it. so, i like the idea of completing the electric diamond parallel dodger team set.

what replaced it on the list?  1996 fleer emotion-xl #214 chan ho park

why was this card added? chan ho's card is the last one i need for the dodger team set from that strange yet compelling set.

i mentioned that the hershiser was one of three dodgers i needed to complete the set. well, the other two were part of the same sportlots order - jose offerman

and jim gott

i maintain that gott's card features christian slater but i don't know for sure.

i do want to show the back of gott's card, along with hershiser's

i am led to believe that these images are from the same game. hershiser, who would have started the game, has a wetter infield behind him in the early goings. gott, who would have pitched in relief (he was the dodgers' closer at the time) has a drier infield that might have been wetted down a bit during the 7th inning stretch. 

they are wearing the away grays, and so looking at away games played during the day in 1993, i found two possibilities for the photos:

may 9, 1993 against the giants - hershiser got the win and gott the save

june 13, 1993 against the padres - hershiser got the win and gott the save

if i had to guess, i would say that the photos come from the latter game at jack murphy stadium.

one more card for the post - another one from that sportlots order. it's todd hollandsworth's card from the aforementioned 1996 fleer emotion xl set

adding this card made chan ho park's the last one i needed and made it an easy one to add to the nefarious 9. can you help a blogger out?!

some cards i acquired all of a sodden

i've been pretty steady with ordering cards from sportlots for the last 10 years or so. it is fairly rare that i don't have an order in the works, in fact. just recently, i ordered some cards from a couple of sellers - nothing special, but still cards that i was able to remove from my want list.

cards like this 2021 topps mookie betts 52 redux

and a cody bellinger from the same insert set

i've mentioned before that clayton kershaw is my first go-to when i need to fill out a sportlots order to maximize my shipping value. i did just that when i picked up this 2018 panini donruss green holo parallel

of kershaw's 1984 design card in the set, as well as this blue holo parallel

of kershaw's 2021 panini donruss card.

i also picked up a pink refractor parallel from 2020 topps chrome

and a rainbow foil from 2020 topps update

of the dodger lefty.

i had not added any 2020 topps gallery to my collection (and i'm not complaining), but i did pick up two copies of this card

featuring kershaw and walker buehler - one for the team collection and one for the dodger stadium collection.

the other cards from this particular order were from 1994, such as a score gold rush parallel of darryl strawberry

a topps finest card of jim gott

and a golden rainbow parallel from topps stadium club of rafael bournigal

there was one other card in this haul, and that was this one - the golden rainbow parallel of orel hershiser's stadium club card

i posted a couple of weeks ago about selling my base dupe of this card on ebay. the next day, i followed up on a comment on that post and saw that someone had added this card to sportlots, but at the reasonable and normal 18 cents.  i bought it, along with all of the other cards in this post, with the earnings i made from the regular base version of the hershiser card. in other words, i traded a base card for its parallel version, plus 11 other cards. crazy times.