green grow the cards

here is a somewhat meta card - this 2003 fleer platinum card

is a very green shawn green card! i had a teammate back in high school whose last name was black. he thought it was weird to have a last name that was also a color, and he refused to wear black. names are weird in general, i think.

moving on, here's a green non-green card

that card, from 2005 playoff prestige, is the purple parallel. 

and another, from 2001 fleer authority:

i stumbled upon this one in my dodger dupes box and noticed that the dodger stadium murals (hi, pee wee!) are visible behind green despite the best efforts of fleer's card designers. to the dodger stadium binder it goes!

i do have some other non-green green cards to show that have entered my collection over the last couple of years.  here's a 2020 panini diamond kings jackie robinson all-time diamond king card

that is green by design.

i stumbled upon this retail green parallel of a 2019 topps sandy koufax decades' best card

in a target or walgreens somewhere back in 2019, and this 2018 topps gypsy queen chris taylor green parallel card

was a sportlots order filler.

green green green! happy st. patrick's day!