summer sortin' had me a blast

i have a bunch of cards to sort through and haven't dedicated the time to do so in recent months. or is it years? anyway, i was envious of fuji who noted that he was doing a big summer sorting project and now i have become one of the beneficiaries of his work!

i received a bubble mailer full of dodger (and selected other) goodness that ran the gamut from oddballs to parallels and even a custom pinback.

i was able to add some cards to my collection from 1986 sportflics including a tri-star card of fernando valenzuela that also features vida blue and john denny.

denny is a good outlier for me to use on the immaculate grid from time to time thanks to him being a non-steve carlton phillie cy young award winner who was featured in the 1978 topps set. i try my best each day to complete the grid using players from that set.

there were a number of fernando items, including stickers like this one from 1984 topps

that is a sears catalog worthy pose!

fuji also sent me my first 1993 topps micro dodger cards, including darryl strawberry, orel hershiser, and eric karros

i've had some of these in the past of other players, but these are the first keepers for me.

these next two items aren't new to me, but i did want to show how clayton kershaw went from a ryan reynolds lookalike on his 2012 panini triple play sticker

to a more hirsute individual on his 2013 panini triple play sticker

it's a transformation similar to what was seen for some players between early 1970's topps flagship sets - 1970 and 1971 richie/dick allen comes to mind (yes i know the photo on his 1970 card is an older photo).

these next three are all new to me - 2013 panini prizm mike piazza diamond dominance

and yasiel puig fearless

inserts, plus a 2018 panini diamond kings jackie robinson portraits insert

obviously, those cards are all lacking logos, but i think i prefer that to whatever it is that todd hollandsworth is wearing on this 1995 signature rookies card 

it kind of looks like a rec league jersey, but hey - the card is 1 of only 25,000!

there were cards with logos, including one that is just the logo

from 1987 donruss opening day.

with fuji being a padres fan, i wasn't surprised to see some steve garvey cards make the mailing. here's a 1986 donruss pop ups card

that celebrates garvey's (last) all-star game which was played at the metrodome in 1985.

my favorite item of the package was this pinback

that was constructed using his 1982 donruss diamond kings card. this is right up there with the coaster that p-town tom sent to me using a 2012 topps mini matt kemp card in terms of custom coolness.

finally, there were a handful of cards from the 2021 topps complete set (gold star edition) for my collection, including corey seager

and the championship fireworks

it's been a long time since i received a gold star from a teacher!

thanks mark! enjoy the last few days of your summer vacation!

four on one

first up - r.i.p. tommy davis. owner of one of the greatest offensive seasons (1962) in franchise history. i hope the franchise recognizes him this year. take a trip down the path of his career with this post.

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earlier this year i shared a 1989 donruss card that was new to my dodger stadium collection. it featured three prominent team logos in the card design, hat and jacket. gtt wondered about the greatest number of logos on a single card, and i responded that i assumed there was a card somewhere with four of the same logo - card design, hat, jersey and patch or jacket.

i wound up taking a cursory look through a few different sets to see if i could prove myself correct. most teams don't repeat their hat logo on their their jerseys, so i focused on just a handful of teams. i started with fleer and donruss cards that included the team logo on the cards and pretty quickly came close to four full logos.

here's a 1988 donruss baseball's best david wells card

there are four blue jay beaks visible - card design, hat, jacket, and jersey just barely visible under the jacket.

this 1993 donruss mcdonald's expos card of gene mauch

would get us closer to four if donruss had used an expos logo in the card design.

i've had this 1990 fleer update oil can boyd card 

in my dodger stadium collection for a while. like the wells card above, it has just over three logos - card design, hat, jacket and the tip of the "m" on a shirt under the jacket.

it didn't take long to find this 1984 mike vail card

card design logo - check.

hat logo - check

jersey logo - check

equipment bag/box logo - check

that is the cleanest four logos on one card example that i found.  i did find some cards that i added to my collection as a result of this review, so that's a bonus.

1986 fleer bryn smith

if you count tim wallach back there in the background, there are five "m" expos logos on this card. i bought this card for it's dodger stadium background though. i am surprised that it wasn't already in that collection as i used to collect bryn smith cards (he's from my neck of the woods) and he has a few other dodger stadium cards in my collection already.

the phillies were another team i checked on, thanks to their "p" logo. i didn't find any cards with four logos on one, but i did find and purchase a 1987 donruss opening day juan samuel card

and a 1988 fleer mike jackson card

for the dodger stadium collection. the colors are inverted, but i still consider the jackson card to have three logos on it.

i didn't seek out mets cards for this exercise, but a few did pop up that featured dodger stadium in the background. welcome to the collection 1989 donruss all-stars gary carter

and 1988 donruss bonus mvp darryl strawberry!

i saw the strawberry when i took a closer look at the 1988 donruss bonus mvp set thanks to this card

the cubs were another of the teams that i looked in to, and this card does feature four cub logos, but they are different. one could maybe make an argument about the "c" being the same in three of the logos, but the actual bear cub logo on the left sleeve disqualifies it altogether. i still bought this card because it features andre dawson at the 1987 all-star game in oakland. standing to his right is a dodger that i am fairly confident is orel hershiser. that's good enough for me to put this in the lurker collection!

anyone have any other four logos on one card examples?