from rod at padrographs - a 1/1 sketch card that is as unbelievable as it is true.
on 7/29/10, the padres were in first place in the national league west and the dodgers were 7 games back. well, they are still 7 games up as of the 5th of august (the pads are currently up on the dodgers 3-0 as i type this late on the evening of the 5th). i would never have guessed at the start of the season that this would be happening.
rod wasn't all doom and gloom, as he also sent a couple cards i earned by creating a 1999 upper deck bip roberts final tribute card that should have been.
here are two 1997 topps screen play cards - first sammy sosa
and now tony gwynn
these are really really cool. high grade sportsflics cards. there's a nomo and a piazza in the set which i now need to find.
rod also sent a couple of dodgers team issue postcards - steve garvey
and davey lopes.
i really like the lopes. because i am a freak, i need to categorize these things. there's a garvey up on ebay being advertised as a 1977 issue, and a lopes is there as a 1975 release. however, i know that the astros wore that '40' patch in 1975, so i would guess that the garvey is from 1976 even though the dodgers may have well used an old photo on a later release. since the lopes and garvey backs are almost (but not quite) identical, i'll accept 1975 for the lopes. if anyone knows any better, please let me know.thanks rod!
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If it helps any, if you do a search on Beckett.com for Steve Garvey and then sort it alphabetically, a 1976 Steve Garvey Dodgers postcard (card #6) comes up. For years after that, no Steve Garvey post cards appear.
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