dodgers, ensemble!

back in 2006, i heard about a high end product from upper deck. ultimate collection, they called it. there were two cards that featured steve garvey, and they were both multi-auto cards. i don't think i saw any surface for quite some time. fifteen years later, i have had the quad auto (numbered to 25) in my collection for quite some time, but i don't think i had even seen the version with five signatures (appropriately named "signatures 5") until just a few months ago.

now, it's mine.

yay. it's numbered to 15, and my version happens to match up with steve garvey's jersey number. that's just by coincidence. upper deck took the quad version, which featured garvey, ron cey, don sutton, and dusty baker, and added maury wills to make this card. while i am always happy to have another maury wills signed card, having him and baker on the same card is a bit off as they were never teammates.

speaking of baker and teammates, i also added the black parallel version of what was my favorite card from 2020

that's the decades' best card from 2020 topps update that celebrates the team of my youth with a very small part of baker, along with cey, lee lacy, tom lasorda, and bill north on the front. the back of the card has the serial number

which matches baker's jersey number. again, a coincidence.