favorite fabrics

my favorite relic set, hands down, is 2001 leaf certified materials fabric of the game.  perhaps i am biased because there is a strong dodger checklist featured, and i was able to obtain a fantastic steve garvey card numbered 6/6 (a 'jersey number' parallel) back when the set was first issued.

i will occasionally check ebay for dodger cards from this set, but with my garvey collection complete for this issue, there is not much of a priority here.  still, i recently found a seller with a bunch of cards for sale, and picked up four for my collection.

here is a don sutton 'century' parallel - that means it is numbered to 21.

this shawn green card is a 'jersey number' parallel,

so in addition to having the jersey number stencil over the patch, it is numbered to green's familiar 15 (a number which still belongs to davey lopes, by the way).

less rare is this don drysdale 'jersey number' parallel

as big d wore number 53.  i now own roughly 4% of the drysdale 'jersey number' card print run, as i have another in my collection already.  this new one shows the blue dodger patch a bit better.

finally, i also snagged a vladimir guerrero 'century' parallel

for my vladdy collection.

i'm a bit disappointed that none of these patches feature the red dodger number as my fotg garvey 'jersey number' and one of my garvey 'century' parallels do.  so, around the same time i picked those fotg cards up, i scratched that red patch itch with these fine cards:

2008 upper deck spx winning materials limited patch jeff kent

numbered to 99

2008 upper deck spx winning materials dual limited patch rafael furcal

numbered to 50

2015 panini donruss jersey kings studio dee gordon

numbered to 5

2016 topps museum collection meaningful materials prime relic gold zack greinke

numbered to 35

and 2016 topps strata clearly authentic autograph relic green parallel clayton kershaw

numbered to 75

red patch!