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.

this may be the most padre-ish card that i own

and it's not even a padres card.

i opened an envelope a while back and was at first confused. i knew i had ordered a 1999 pacific aurora kevin brown card in an attempt to complete my dodger team set (mission not yet accomplished as i still need eric karros' card - a nefarious 9 want!), but i didn't expect to see this:

i shouldn't have been surprised as there are some other 1999 kevin brown cards that show him as a dodger in friar's clothing, but it took me longer than it should have to find the dodger logo on here.  what with the interlocking sd on two hats, the logo on the turtleneck, the padres jersey, and the sleeve patch, along with the blue background, that dodger logo gets lost in the shuffle.

the back wasn't much better

seeing as how it's tinted in padres brown. i suppose the logo is more discernible here.

regardless of the high level of padres-ness, i am happy to have this card in my collection, and i'm hoping that the eric karros card joins it soon. at least i can count on that card being nothing but dodger.

i've also recently acquired three more partial dodger cards for my collection, each lacking much dodgerness in their own right.  first, there's this 1988 pinnacle plus bobby bonilla card:

these pinnacle cards don't scan too well, but you can see part of the "traded" text on bobby's left shin. this is less of a dodger card than the kevin brown up top, as it has the marlins logo on the back.  here's another one - 2000 upper deck ionix shawn green

just like the bonilla card, there is the "traded to dodgers" text, but no dodger logo to be seen. funny enough, the bonilla was on my master dodger team set checklist, but the green was not.

this last card is much more dodger-ish - it's a 2007 upper deck spectrum jason schmidt card

it's got the full team affiliation on the front and back (not shown), which is a good thing as i try to limit the giant cards in my collection.