here's another late to market post, sharing my second wind roundup of cards i've added from 2025 topps archives to advance my dodger collection, mostly.
to finish up the 1964 dodger cards, i added dalton rushing
and chan ho park
both are spring training shots typical of the eras in which these players played.
i have most of the 1996 cards added as well - here's teoscar hernandez
clayton kershaw
and will smith
all at dodger stadium. not sure if i mentioned it before, but it annoys me slightly that the inset "phantom zone" (as i call it) photo is not skewed the way it was on the original '96 cards.
here's more of the dodger team set using the 2005 design - hyeseong kim, river ryan, mookie betts
and yoshinobu yamamoto
i like the betts card very much because of the world champion gold-lettered jersey he is wearing. i appreciate topps creating a few cards featuring dodgers in these duds in 2025 and i hope they make some in 2026 and beyond! here's the back of yamamoto's card
i found it interesting that they went with a straight "3" for his era below the photo of him on the back. era is always shown to two decimal places except here when the tenth and hundredth places are zeroes.
one of the other 2005 design cards belongs to orel hershiser
his card back is even more interesting
because i really don't know what's going on with the stat that shows up under his photo. i think it is supposed to be 204 to match his wins total (and the "w" above the .304). they just forgot to edit the number from a batting average and change the first digit. that's the best i can do in trying to figure it out.
those cards above all came from sportlots. i was able to find two of the three dodgers i was still missing at the february card show in those dig boxes i posted about previously. jackie robinson and sandy koufax
don't look too bad on these modern card designs.
i like the black foil parallels again this year, and picked up sandy's from an online seller
just like i did to obtain kershaw's 2007 all-star design insert
the other archives card i tracked down this year was barry larkin's
and that's because he is shown (finally) on the 2005 design, making this a final tribute. here are his complete career stats as they should have been presented 20 years ago
i don't have larkin in my hall of famer collection, but my final tribute collection is less restrictive.
all of this left me one card short of the dodger team set, and i should have that last card in hand soon. not that it's a big deal card (it's not) but it does provide fodder for a separate post. stay tuned!
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