i guess i'm on a rickey kick

i haven't had too many mailings hit my mailbox in recent weeks, but a couple of them had something in common. i picked up a former most wanted non-dodger card from sportlots - a 2019 topps stadium club rickey henderson card

that features fellow future-dodger eddie murray. it's a perfect fit for my lurker collection.

a couple of weeks or so later, jon from penny sleeves for your thoughts sent me a 2004 upper deck play ball rickey henderson home run heroics insert

the card celebrates the 81st lead off home run of rickey's career. it was also the last home run of rickey's career. i really appreciate rickey henderson dodger cards - thanks jon!

in between receiving these cards, i went to the monthly card show two weeks ago and spent about an hour going through the club vp's 5/$1 boxes that were absent from last month's show. i didn't bother to visit any other tables as i was on a time crunch.  i wound up taking a bunch of rickey cards home with me...

of those first 54 cards, 16 are rickeys. i was happy to find a new double play card - the 1997 marquette bank 1987 twins 10th anniversary steve lombardozzi card just before the nolan ryan cards in the last scan. i realized after i scanned these cards that the two cards from that set were actually 1997 cards and not 1987 cards. that's why they are out of order. i don't know why the four nolan ryan cards were scanned with cards that i thought were from the 1980's.

the last card above, along with these nine

make a complete set of the 1990 upper deck reggie jackson baseball heroes insert set, minus the autograph card.

there were quite a few holograms in the boxes, so i grabbed a few as you will see in this next batch of cards

only 7 rickeys in that batch of cards. a few vladdys for the collection, as well as a couple of dodger needs and some cardinal/brave trade bait refills. but wait, there's more!

a rickey as an angel parallel and more vladdys...

i hadn't seen those "you crash the game" cards before. it looked like the guy had a couple of sets - i assume they were redemption sets.

the randy johnson card in this next group somehow escaped my knowledge until that morning. it features the dodger stadium murals from 1998, and ron cey in particular. i'm now looking for the bowman chrome refractor version

that's a nice 1999 topps stadium club frank thomas for my "name/number on the back" collection (post coming soon).

rickey as a met, among other cards:

there were a whole slew of 2001 topps archives cards in one box. i know i have a near complete set, but i didn't have a list with me so i just grabbed a couple ryans and a jackie.

more cards:

the 2009 upper deck update barack obama card goes in my lurker collection, thanks to the presence of albert pujols. i couldn't leave those 2010 topps target throwbacks in the box even though i really only wanted the ebbett's field card, and some of the "yo momma" cards are original backs. i didn't expect to find any buster posey rookie cards, but there they were. also, rip jeremy giambi there on the "the flip" card.

next up might be the best find of the show for me, a 2010 topps blank "you sketch it" card:

although the purple refractor of hiroki kuroda from 2010 topps chrome was a nice find, too.

i wrote a post recently that featured a couple of 2011 topps diamond anniversary parallels, and the prevailing feedback i received was that folks liked these parallels and they are tough to pass up when they show up in dime (or two-dime) boxes. case in point:

this next scan features a 2011 andre ethier card that i had never seen before - it was a target exclusive i guess:

i couldn't pass up the 2018 topps update ohtani/trout in a golf cart cards. i guess that was 251 cards but i told the guy i had 250 - oops. that would be $50 but he said $40 and threw in a 300 count box. nice. i guess that means i was digging through a bunch of 16-cent boxes.

not too much rickey there in the last half, but still some fun cards. like i said, some of these are already on their way to trading partners, but let me know if there is something that you might be interested in.