thank you jackie robinson

i showed off a bunch of 42 cards earlier in the week, so today i will celebrate jackie robinson day with a few cards of the trailblazer himself.

this one is from 2022 topps archives

and uses the design of the 1992 topps rookie debut set to great effect. 

this 2017 topps insert

also recognizes the memorable moment that was his major league baseball debut.

some other cards i've added to the collection in the past year include:

1982 tcma superstars card

1984 renata galasso baseball collector's series card

2009 topps update & highlights legends of the game career best legends

2010 topps hta logoman insert

2010 topps walmart legends chrome cereal box platinum

and one of his most recent cards coming from 2022 topps pristine

i also had an ebay seller throw in a couple of well done reprints of his 1950 bowman and 1948 leaf cards

as part of a non-jackie purchase i made. i don't know who is responsible for these, but they are pretty good looking and seem professionally printed. 

the best thing about these cards is that they all feature different photos of jackie, which is fairly rare considering that most of those cards are from the pre-google images era.

my jackie robinson collection, which is just a subset of my dodger collection, now stands at 414 unique cards which slots me into third place on tcdb. overall, jackie is the 9th most represented player in my collection

and i think i will see if i can make eric karros give way.

it's always a good idea to reflect on the trail paved by jackie and recognize that the effort continues. thank you jackie robinson.

don't you know that you are a superstar

so not quite the correct lyric from the song by bad company, but it fits this quick post to note that i really don't know what to call the set from with this roy campanella card 

and its back

comes from. i received as a filler in a sportlots order. it's a 1982 seckeli (per sportlots) superstar card, although i have it listed as a tcma superstars card which matches comc. my standard catalog of baseball cards just calls it the 1982 superstar set. who knows for sure.

whatever, it joins duke snider in my collection and leaves just jackie robinson, sandy koufax, and the koufax/hank aaron combo card to obtain for the team set.

easier to catalog is this card

which comes from 2021 topps update and was part of a small dodger lot i purchased recently. while it is easier to identify, it lacks the personality of the more ambiguous card above.

bonus trivia - today marks the 74th anniversary of roy campanella's major league (non-negro league) debut on april 20, 1948. 

always fun to add a new campy (or two) to the collection!

bonus content: one of my boxes of 2021 topps big league arrived at the seller's store today. should be arriving on my doorstep soon! can't wait!

diamond kings, jesters, and a duke

diamond jesters had a post a while back in which he showed off cards from an actual pack of 2021 cards purchased in a retail setting! i commented on an interest in a couple of cards, and shortly thereafter i received a walker buehler

and pete rose

mailing in my mailbox. the rose features a dodger stadium shot, i believe. i could be wrong about it though. i am basing it mostly on the blue paneling behind the hit king, although it might not be the same as the old paneling used at field level in chavez ravine. whatever, it's the hit king!

matt also sent me a 1956 topps frank baumholtz card

as part of his time traveling trades. i requested this one for the tatooine collection, and then i remembered that i wasn't adding cards to that collection that predated the 1971 topps brooks robinson card that started the whole thing. still it's cool to trade for a 1956 topps card!

more recently, kevin at the diamond king posted a flash freebie in which i claimed a 2020 leaf draft fernando tatis card

turns out it's a gold parallel. tatis is my current favorite non-dodger, and i enjoy following his exploits. it helps that he is on my fantasy team and will be until my keeper rights run out on him in a handful of years.

and even more recently than that, i just received a couple of cards from gtt in exchange for my recent 'almost free stuff friday' post.  he sent a 1982 tcma superstars card of duke snider

along with a 1980 tcma all-time dodgers card of dazzy vance

great adds to my 80's dodgers collection!

thanks guys!