it's time for dodger baseball cards

and i mean a lot of dodger baseball cards!

i am pretty sure that i can count on one finger the number of times i have received a sandy koufax topps tribute card in a trade

that one comes from 2019, and is the green parallel, numbered to 99.

it came from kevin - the cousin of jeff from my sports obsession - with whom i had exchanged cards a few times previously. this return salvo arrived sometime before the holidays, and the cards were just as impressive as those earlier swaps.

here are some scans:

wow. that's a lot of stars, rookies, parallels, and inserts! but wait - there's more! i wasn't aware that there were foil parallels from 2020 topps archives until i saw this card:

and this 2020 topps chrome gavin lux card 

brought me down to needing just one more to complete that team set.

i bought a miguel cabrera autograph from the 2020 topps chrome black set, but i had never seen any base cards until i saw this tony gonsolin card:

and then there was this 2020 topps update walker buehler silver pack card

that i scanned separately for some reason.

there was even more chrome, foil, rookie and just general dodger goodness to behold:

i like that prizm koufax old school insert, but all of the 2021 stuff was great to find since i didn't have a lot other than regular base cards from the more widely distributed releases.

still, there were cards to be had from those flagship releases. case in point, even though this card comes from 2021 topps series 1

i didn't own it prior to receiving this package. sure it's a plain white swatch of something corey seager may have worn for a photo shoot, but i am happy to have it.  i was more intrigued by this last card, however

i had no idea what this was when i saw it. turns out it's a 2021 topps heritage blue sparkle chrome parallel. it looks weird because of the 1972 design, but i like blue borders on my dodger cards. funny thing is, i had this card in my collection before i had the (short printed) base card of seager from this set. don't worry though - i remedied that at last week's card show.

just another tremendously wonderful package of dodger goodness! thanks kevin - i've got some braves ready to ship out to keep this thing going!