1989 donruss mookie wilson.
a nice dodger stadium shot. there's not much else that is redeeming about 1989 donruss.1990 donruss bryn smith diamond king.
1990 donruss is worse. i must say that i requested these first two cards specifically. the mookie for the dodger stadium background and this one because smith is from my hometown. i like the cave painting on this card. on the right you have the ocean waves (although the water is orange), a red tee-pee, a purple river, and an orange sun.1991 score greg gagne.
this one i pulled from some junk wax he sent along. future dodger is getting dave henderson's elbow in his nuts as he turns two. it's a thankless job.
this one i pulled from some junk wax he sent along. future dodger is getting dave henderson's elbow in his nuts as he turns two. it's a thankless job.and then there were three 1991 upper deck dodgers i asked for - bob ojeda first.
ojeda went 12-9 for the dodgers in 1991. ojeda had nothing to do with it, but the giants eliminated the dodgers on the second to last day of the season that year. boo.
ojeda went 12-9 for the dodgers in 1991. ojeda had nothing to do with it, but the giants eliminated the dodgers on the second to last day of the season that year. boo.orel hershiser.
orel looks like he is 12 and thinks his glove is cuddly. hershiser was 7-2 in 1991 after missing most of 1990 with a shoulder injury. it was his last winning season as a dodger.
orel looks like he is 12 and thinks his glove is cuddly. hershiser was 7-2 in 1991 after missing most of 1990 with a shoulder injury. it was his last winning season as a dodger.eric karros.
the 1992 nl roy went 1 for 14 in 1991. his only hit was a 12th inning rbi double off the immortal milt hill.
the 1992 nl roy went 1 for 14 in 1991. his only hit was a 12th inning rbi double off the immortal milt hill.thanks captain canuck!
a baker, 
and a candel(aria)-stick maker. 
i love this card. zim came back to the dodgers prior to the 1963 season. he had last played for them in 1959. he was traded to the cubs prior to the 1960 season, and then selected by the mets in the expansion draft prior to the 1962 season. they traded him to the reds a month into the season. zim spent only a few months with the dodgers in 1963 as he was purchased by the senators in june that year. he closed out his playing career with the senators in 1965. after all that, this card shows him in a cubs uniform and an airbrushed hat. you can kind of see the cubs' 'c' if you look closely. the inset picture must be from his first tenure with the dodgers, so it's at least 3 years old.
law took over center from rick monday and kept it warm for kenny landreaux. i imagine rudy was a little bit bummed seeing landreaux catch the final out of the 1981 world series.
nomah! i am pretty sure (maybe) that the national sliding into second is paul 'heart & soul' loduca. maybe not.
this is a pretty blurry photo they used. i am guessing the hat is shopped.
this really doesn't look like martin to me. it looks more like pete incaviglia. thank goodness topps used a better photo on the chrome and stadium club cards.
is this atlanta or saint louis? i wonder if there are any braves/cardinals fans that collect these cards the way i do with dodger stadium shots.
no legs, but he keeps his bat with him for balance. these cards are ugly. shiny, but ugly.
i'm guessing that's joe torre front and center - that's where lasorda used to be, anyway. if so, why does he have number 62 on? very strange.
not too much to say about darryl, so let's move on.
i used up a lot of my manny mota material in the ttm post, but i will add that i was very disappointed that the dodgers did not reactivate him when pedro borbon jr was on the team. we could have really heard the dodger stadium announcer say: 'pinch hitting for pedro borbon, manny mota'. good times.
manny is in his 30th year as a dodger coach - he's nearing don zimmer and nick altrock territory as a baseball lifer. best known (to me, anyway) for his pinch hitting prowess, manny had some very solid seasons for the pirates and dodgers early in his career. he hit .332 in 116 games in 1966, and then .321 in 120 games in 1967. after the 1968 season, he was selected by the expansion montreal expos in the expansion draft. he was traded to the dodgers (along with maury wills) in the middle of the 1969 season.
bobby crosby.
mark teixeira turkey red.
rick ankiel.
alex cora.
eric chavez. three layers of depth on this card. feels kind of like a 1973 shot. 
mike aviles. with the f'ed up rookie cup, but it's a double play turn.
bill hall.
jon lester turkey red.
scott hairston. sunglasses covering his eyes.
willy taveras. clear glasses, but bill of cap covering at least one eye.
trevor crowe. helmet bill covering his eyes.
ryan braun topps town.
roy oswalt topps town.
barry zito. bookended by giants.
the reading rifle meant a lot more to the dodgers than that - he was a huge part of their offense and defense from the late 40's through the 50's, and was a key component on their 1955 world series championship team. he led the national league in 1953 with a .344 batting average, and according to his bio on wikipedia, he once threw a runner out at first base after the batter had apparently hit a single. i thought that only happened in little league! his other nickname was 'skoonj'. they just don't make nicknames like that anymore. the dodgers of furillo's era had 'peewee', 'preacher', 'oisk', 'skoonj' and who knows what else. sure, they also had 'newk' and 'campy' which are more comparable to today's nicknames, but 'skoonj' is something special.
no doubt exchanging hair styling tips.
the oft-injured repko. the braves showed some interest in acquiring repko recently, according to 
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there was a friend of mine who lived about a block over that collected cards, and i would trade with him often. one day he told me about a guy across the street from him who had some old cards. i very naively knocked on his door and asked his wife if he wanted to trade some cards. he was a giants fan, and claimed to be curious about what the current cards looked like, so he took some of my 1979 topps giants (darrell evans and johnnie lemaster, i am sure of, plus some more i would guess) for a 1955 bowman don hoak. by the way, that darrell evans card is the reverse of the 1979 topps steve garvey card, but that's for another post.
how appropriate that it came from a 'traded' set. berroa filled in decently for furcal last season, and was doing the same for the yankees this year as they waited for alex rodriguez to get healthy.
a shutout in his last start. the lesser-hyped dodgers' lefty starters (stults and wolf) are pitching better than the phenom (kershaw).
i think a better pairing would have been aaron rowand and russell martin. as in rowan(d) and martin. rowan and martin. get it? a laugh-in reference. man, do i feel old.
his hair looks really flat. in the inset photo, you can really tell that 
i'm too lazy to research the all star game patch on his sleeve to see if this photo is from 2008 or not.