that kepshire cat

kurt kepshire appeared in 51 major league games in his career, which spanned from the fourth of july, 1984 until april 23, 1986. he pitched in dodger stadium in three of those games. luckily for my collection, photos of him from those away games against the dodgers made their way on to cardboard. here's his 1985 donruss card:

and his 1985 fleer card:

the shadows on the donruss card provide some drama to the image. both of these photos came from his relief appearance (second big league appearance) on july 8 of '84 and were almost assuredly taken from the camera well adjacent to the dodger dugout.

that camera well is visible on kepshire's teammate tommy herr's 1985 fleer card

and other parts of dodger stadium show up on other cardinal cards, like art howe's

and lonnie smith's

in fact, dodger stadium is fairly prevalent on non-dodger cards in 1985 fleer. a few months ago, i went through my complete sets of fleer and donruss from 1985 (along with some other scattered cards) and found some dodger stadium cards i didn't already have in the mini-collection to track down doubles of for it.

dodger stadium is here, on glenn davis' half of his rookie card

that's the right field pavilion showing up in the backtround. in addition, many mets are featured on the dodger stadium field, including brent gaff

ron gardenhire

jose oquendo

and walt terrell

traditionally with fleer in the early 1980's, it was the braves who seemed to get dodger stadium background on their cards most often. here's old friend terry forster

up along the first base line, and another old friend in jerry royster

closer to home plate.

dodger nemesis chris chambliss is probably pretty close to the batting cage

which is exactly where steve yeager is hanging out

i finally added a dupe of the yeager card to my dodger stadium collection.

back to donruss, they produced some pretty cool cards with dodger stadium backgrounds in 1984, like ryne sandberg's

and ozzie smith's

i think i put the sandberg in my name/number on the back collection though.

kepshire had some company in 1985 donruss as well, including teammate ralph citarella

who must have annoyed someone at the card company for them to choose that photo.

here's dave von ohlen, the pride of flushing, ny

who wound up pitching for the cardinals and a's instead of his hometown mets. he was 0-1 lifetime at shea, by the way. 

speaking of the mets, here's mike fitzgerald

in dodger stadium with the centerfield edge of the right field pavilion showing. these days, that section of lower seats near fitzgerald's right ear is blocked off from spectators.

one of the the centerfield speakers is visible behind atlee hammaker

and bill laskey is shown 

as seen from the visitor dugout camera well.

future dodger john tudor

makes an appearance as does long time nl west rival dave concepcion

i picked up concepcion's leaf card, too.

it was a good time going through these sets that don't show up on the blogs too often. i'll finish the post up with one more kepshire card

looks like kepshire got too much sun or perhaps is blushing because of the dodger stadium usherette in the background. i think he only has six major league cards - topps, donruss, and fleer from both 1985 and 1986 - meaning that half of them feature photos from dodger stadium. i am happy to have them all!