continuing the search for logo overload

it's been over four years since this post, but i have never stopped looking for more four-in-one logo cards. let's see some logos!

first up is a sticker from 1990 publications international that features the dodgers' hat logo

that is the logo that is most likely to show up on a card multiple times simply because it is the hat logo.

this 2001 topps ismael valdes gold parallel

that i bought earlier this year has four logos, but they are not all the same. topps sometimes uses teams' official logos, which in the dodgers' case is the script and flying ball design. the club still wears "dodgers" in script on their sleeves, but only with jerseys that say "los angeles" on the front. the jersey that valdes is modeling is one of the worst dodger fits of all time.

i also bought this 2014 topps ricky nolasco camo parallel for the dodger collection

it features three "la" logos, and if yasiel puig had been holding his hat the other way, we would have had four. with two players, however, it would not have counted towards a four-in-one. here's the back of the card

showing the serial numbering to 99.

topps switched to the hat logo in 2013, and they stuck with it for the most part (2021 and 2023 were the exceptions) until this year. still, i found no four logo cards. here are some three logo cards - kenley jansen's gold parallel from 2015

a rainbow foil parallel of alex verdugo from 2020

a 2022 topps chrome trea turner prism refractor

and a 2022 topps update turner manufactured relic

if only the card design included the logo as well...

tyler glasnow's 2024 topps chrome prism refractor

and tommy edman's 2025 topps holofoil parallel

are two more recent examples. there are many more dodger cards that include photos with three logos because of the sleeve logo, so it's not as big of a deal as it used to be.

i did get sort of excited by the tyler glasnow/blake snell combo card in 2025 topps update

that is the holiday foil parallel, of course, but here we have five logos! with two players, it's not much to write home about, however.

as for other teams, i found some recent-ish releases to share. 

this 2020 bowman robel garcia card

has four "c"s on it. not all are the same logos, however.

this 2022 topps kurt suzuki card

has four "a"s on it, although the one on the jersey (part of the "angels" text on the chest) is obscured.

thankfully, i was able to find a card that rivals the 1984 fleer mike vail card featured in the post linked above.

jarrod dyson's 2019 topps card sets a new standard for a four-in-one logo card! of course, i would prefer the player to be wearing three of the logos, but this is a very logo oriented card!

of course, one could cheat, like with this 2000 topps tek pattern 5 card of shawn green

or this 2024 topps jonny deluca team color border parallel

but they don't count in this endeavor.

last year i did find and purchase a dodger single player four logo card - it is james outman's 2025 topps golden mirror variation

had james' left arm been forward in the photo, we would have seen five "la" logos on the card! here's the back:

which features another logo. 

i am hoping that 2027 topps goes back to the hat logos with the card design. regardless, the search for logo overload continues!

grab bag - brag or drag?

i bought two team bag semi-mystery bags at the fall church show (as mentioned in this post), and i promised i would go through the contents in a subsequent post which, as you have guessed, is this one.  these were marked at $4 each which means i got them for $2 each. it turned out that there were 10 cards in each bag. i didn't bother to try to move the cards around to count or peek before i bought, by the way.

the first one had this card on the front - 2021 panini elite extra edition troy glaus all-time first round materials

and this one on the back - 2019 panini prizm manny machado blue hyper prizm parallel

neither of these cards really fit in my collection, but i was intrigued enough to add the bag to my stack. i assumed the other cards were parallels or inserts, but didn't know for sure. here's what was between those two cards

2019 panini prizm carlos correa blue hyper prizm parallel

2022 topps pristine josh donaldson purple refractor parallel (numbered to 99)

2024 topps chrome adley rutschman ray wave refractor parallel

2021 panini elite extra edition calvin ziegler optic auto (numbered to 99)

2021 topps stadium club chrome max scherzer virtual reality insert

2021 topps stadium club chrome jacob degrom 1991 design variation refractor parallel

2023 topps chrome spencer strider future stars insert

2021 panini prizm robin yount carolina blue prizm parallel

so, not a bad lot of cards. the new york referenced on ziegler's card is the mets, by the way. he missed all of 2025 due to tommy john surgery so will see if he bounces back. the scherzer was a need for my dodger collection, so that was a happy surprise. 

there were, i think, four of these bags in the box, but i only bought one more. the other bag i bought had this card on the front - 2022 topps pro debut elijah tatis autograph

and this one on the back - 2024 topps chrome will smith raywave refractor parallel

so i knew i was adding a dodger card to my collection. i'll note that tatis is wearing number 23 on that card - that's a big deal in chicago given their history with number 23 on the bulls and cubs, and robin ventura was no slouch, either. doesn't matter, though as i don't think the younger tatis is active any longer.

just as before, here are the cards that were sandwiched between those two:

2023 topps chrome miguel cabrera sepia refractor parallel

2019 topps heritage minors tim tebow

2020 topps inception kris bryant purple parallel #/150

2019 panini father's day brandon lowe #/199

2022 panini usa baseball stars & stripes sean mclain jumbo relics #/150

2022 panini prizm yordan alvarez blue mojo prizm #/199

2019 panini chronicles blake snell obsidian prizm

2019 panini chronicles whit merrifield phoenix holo prizm

the sean mclain card presents a bit of a quandary for me. it could fit in my collection a couple of different ways - mclain was the dodgers' 5th round pick in 2022 (i've used this tactic once before with a team usa relic), and he also hails from tustin, california.

i have a mini-collection in the works that includes tustin (foreshadowing another future post). not sure what i'll do with this card as of now.

it had been decades since i had bought a grab bag at a show, but i am happy with these. not sure i am happy enough to try my luck again, but never say never!

just wow

game 7 was an absolute classic. it would have been perfect for either team to have won - i would have had no complaints if it had gone the other way, and i truly mean that.

up until last night, miguel rojas was probably going to be remembered as the guy who made a great play to preserve clayton kershaw's no-hitter back in 2014 during his first stint with the dodgers. he didn't even warrant a card when he was first with the team, and his subsequent years have seen him with only a small number of cards. here's a 2023 topps royal blue parallel

that i've shown before (i try really hard not to show cards more than once unless it's germane to the post). he's going to get a few more cards i would say after his game 7 performance. now he will be remembered for his unlikely home run in the top of the 9th to tie the game, as well as his the drawn in defensive play to preserve the tie in the bottom of the 9th. this all overshadowed his crazy short-hop pick to end game 6!

will smith, whose 2025 topps major league material card i picked up at a mall show in mid october,

will be celebrated for his game winning home run in the 11th inning, but he also gets credit for that force play at home in the bottom of the 9th - a play that could have been overturned on replay, it was that close.

and then there was max muncy

who made it a one run game in the 8th with his solo blast. i had been saving that 2022 topps photo variation card for a different post, but game 7 heroics warrant showing it now.

mookie betts (this is his 2023 topps flagship card)

struggled in the series, but he scored a run on a shallow sacrifice fly and then turned the game ending double play with one of my favorite plays to make - the 6-3 double play where you take the ball to the bag yourself. so fun.

i don't have a new card of andy pages to share, and the only kiké hernandez card i have in my scanned folder is this 2023 topps wbc card

but the defensive play pages made while knocking kiké down was incredible. then, they teamed up in the top of the 10th for some more drama, with pages hitting into a force play at home with the bases loaded and hernandez nearly reaching on an infield grounder when the pitcher got his feet turned around at first. just a crazy sequence of plays in the late innings.

the game also marked the official end to clayton kershaw's career. this is his 2025 topps confetti parallel

it was stressful to see kershaw warming up in the bullpen at one point. i had hoped for a blowout (either way) so that kersh might get into the game without any pressure. he delivered in game 3, but...

speaking of the pitching, shohei otani battled but wound up making one bad pitch too many. this is one of his three 2025 topps 2024 greatest hits inserts

we should get a bunch of pitcher ohtani cards in 2026.

justin wrobleski (2025 topps sandglitter parallel)

relieved ohtani and contributed to some drama and a surreal dugout/bullpen emptying hbp of the blue jays' number 9 batter. no way he was trying to hit andres gimenez but three pitches up and in were a bit curious. 

after wrobleski, dave roberts fully committed to "all hands on deck". he brought in tyler glasnow (2024 topps chrome refractor)

who had earned the save in game 6. glasnow gave up what seemed like an insurance run that the blue jays were going to cash in for a title courtesy of gimenez of all people. i was surprised that roberts left glasnow in to face dodger nemesis george springer after that happened, but he did and glasnow got springer and two more outs after that.

glasnow was relived by emmet sheehan, seen here on his 2024 topps gold parallel.

he left after getting the blue jays out in the 7th and issuing a lead off double in the 8th, and was relived by blake snell.

snell (here's his 2025 topps stars of mlb card)

hadn't replicated his playoff success in his two world series starts, but got the dodgers out of a jam thanks to muncy's quick reactions and two strikeouts. he left with two on and one out in the bottom of the 10th and was replaced by yoshinobu yamamoto.

before the game, i assumed that yamamoto would be the only dodger pitcher not available. i was clearly wrong. here's his 2025 bowman chrome card (which i was saving for a different post but oh well)

yamamoto created some drama of his own by hitting the first batter he faced to load the bases. that set up the force play at home from rojas to smith and then the deep flyball that pages caught over kiké's lifeless body. he then worked around the leadoff double by vladimir guerrero jr to start the bottom of the 11th and collected his third win of the series. just a classic, epic game regardless of who won.

as the later innings went on, i was less and less concerned with who would win and more concerned that it not end as the result of an error or some other sort of miscue. i suppose the only other thing that i really didn't want to see was george springer 

as the hero.

i tentatively have plans to head to toronto in april to catch the dodgers when they visit - plans that were begun back when the 2026 schedule was released. if these plans hold, i'll be sure to appreciate both teams just as i did throughout the entire series. i may never see another matchup of my favorite teams in the world series, but if i do, i hope that it is as entertaining as this one was. after all, that's the whole point of this as a fan. and wow was i ever entertained by game 7.