Monday, August 24, 2020

this may be the most padre-ish card that i own

and it's not even a padres card.

i opened an envelope a while back and was at first confused. i knew i had ordered a 1999 pacific aurora kevin brown card in an attempt to complete my dodger team set (mission not yet accomplished as i still need eric karros' card - a nefarious 9 want!), but i didn't expect to see this:
i shouldn't have been surprised as there are some other 1999 kevin brown cards that show him as a dodger in friar's clothing, but it took me longer than it should have to find the dodger logo on here.  what with the interlocking sd on two hats, the logo on the turtleneck, the padres jersey, and the sleeve patch, along with the blue background, that dodger logo gets lost in the shuffle.

the back wasn't much better
seeing as how it's tinted in padres brown. i suppose the logo is more discernible here.

regardless of the high level of padres-ness, i am happy to have this card in my collection, and i'm hoping that the eric karros card joins it soon. at least i can count on that card being nothing but dodger.

i've also recently acquired three more partial dodger cards for my collection, each lacking much dodgerness in their own right.  first, there's this 1988 pinnacle plus bobby bonilla card:
these pinnacle cards don't scan too well, but you can see part of the "traded" text on bobby's left shin. this is less of a dodger card than the kevin brown up top, as it has the marlins logo on the back.  here's another one - 2000 upper deck ionix shawn green
just like the bonilla card, there is the "traded to dodgers" text, but no dodger logo to be seen. funny enough, the bonilla was on my master dodger team set checklist, but the green was not.

this last card is much more dodger-ish - it's a 2007 upper deck spectrum jason schmidt card
it's got the full team affiliation on the front and back (not shown), which is a good thing as i try to limit the giant cards in my collection.

2 comments:

  1. Players in the old uniform with the new team logo have always driven me nuts.

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  2. Seeing two teams represented on one card is one of my biggest pet peeves.

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