collecting dodger cards has its benefits

where i grew up, most of the kids i traded cards with were dodger fans. there was a giants fan and a yankees fan, too, so i was able to wheel and deal for the odd bob welch card now and again. most of my trading back then, however, focused on set completion as a result.

fast forward about 30 years, and now most of my trades are team based, thanks to the blogosphere. what makes things even better as a dodger collector is having the most visible among us also collect dodgers. i've often referred to the cards that i receive from night owl as hand me downs, and i am happy to have them. recently, night owl attempted to clear out some of his dodger duplicates, and he sent some cards my way that no longer reside on my want list.

here's a helping of gold themed cards:

1992 topps were the first of these i ever saw as i didn't buy leaf back then.

these next two cards made me chuckle

they were both needs, but i had found the kevin brown card at the february card show and the eric young card was also acquired in a sportlots order while the package from night owl was in transit.

you can't really tell that this is a 1999 bowman international parallel of jesus cordero

and that's probably ok. cordero hails from the dominican republic, and the background image is of a nice beach scene which is the furthest thing from my current weather reality in the upper midwest.

there was a healthy batch of 2008 upper deck documentary cards, including a few that featured andruw jones

this card is focused on the success of the dodger offense in a game against the giants, so you know there is no way jones is featured in the writeup on the back.

pogs!

i still don't really understand what these things were but they were very popular. i would have sworn i already had this pog combo but i did not.

it's not too often that i receive dodger cards from the early 2000's as that seems to have been a low point in many people's collecting tenure, but here is a new to me fred mcgriff card

for such a short-time dodger, he seems to have a lot of cards, many of which i am still in need of.

i've got a big post focusing on topps chrome coming up which made me appreciate these four refractor parallels

only one standard refractor and three fairly unnecessary refractor parallels. if they were blue refractor parallels, i would not refer to them as unnecessary. i'm not a monster.

i mentioned in an earlier trade post that it is rare to receive cards from more upscale products, and night owl sent a couple from 2013 and 2014 topps triple threads

as well as a couple from 2018 and 2019 topps tribute

cool stuff.

i'll finish up the package from night owl with some lower end stuff. these two cards are from 2018 panini donruss

one is a holo green parallel of cody bellinger's 1984 donruss design card, and the second is the variation version of his card. and finally, a card from 2019 panini chronicles - score

that is mostly notable for the fact that panini forgot to color bellinger's jersey number blue. it's great to see the red number on a panini card for a change!

around the same time that night owl's package arrived, i received a note from bo at baseball cards come to life that he had picked up a large dodger collection and had some cards to send my way. i'll start off with a few topps gold cards - two from 1993

and one from 1994

perhaps my favorite cards of the bunch were two new to me cards from 1988 sportflics

that's orel hershiser and mike marshall. a long time ago i focused on trying to complete the 1989 dodger run of cards with great success. maybe i will focus on 1988 in the near future.

i hadn't seen any cards from 1996 donruss signature series before receiving an ismael valdes card and this chan ho park card

from bo. my first thought was that it looked like a knockoff due to the lack of foil with the signature series oval label, but i guess that's how they were produced.

no lack of foil or whatever it is that makes fleer metal universe cards look like they do on this 1997 todd worrell card:

it's always great to receive dodger cards in the mail, and in the cases of these two packages, i appreciate the efforts made to review my want lists. i will take your dodger dupes!