Wednesday, September 18, 2024

missing 2007 nomah!

it's hard to believe that it has been 18 years since the dodgers beat the padres in what is known as the "4+1 game". on september 18, 2006, the dodgers hit four straight solo home runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to tie the game, and then nomar garciaparra hit a walk-off in the bottom of the 10th.

i was looking forward to 2007 to see all of the cards that would be issued highlighting this tremendous achievement, but it was crickets when topps and upper deck sets were released. nomar didn't sign with topps, and upper deck didn't bother to include that game in their highlights subset.

at least there were some nomar cards, and i've recently gone back and added some that eluded me back then.

one of those cards is this 2007 ud spectrum season retrospection

the only topps cards that featured nomar in 2007 came from the co-signers set where he was named, but took a back seat to jeff kent. kent, coincidentally, was one of the four dodgers to homer in the 9th inning of that game that took place 18 years ago tonight.

here are the bronze and gold parallels from the set
and their backs
i scanned them just to show the variation in font size of some of the serial numbering which i find odd.

here are four more - blue, red, silver red, and silver bronze
by my count, there are six more variations showing nomar that i have yet to acquire, so there's a goal for the future.

2 comments:

  1. Even after all of these years, it's still weird to him as anything but a Red Sawk.

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  2. Damn. Back to back to back to back home runs in the bottom of the 9th... and then one more in the 10th? Even though I'm a Padres fan... that's something that should have been highlighted by card companies. That's gotta be one of the coolest comebacks in the history of the game.

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