a cavalcade of double play turns

in addition to having a 1956 topps pee wee reese card in my double play binder, i also have a reprint from the 1995 topps archives brooklyn dodgers set.

it's the normal card size with sharp corners, but somehow doesn't quite look as nice as the vintage.

moving on, here's a 1993 topps chuck knoblauch card

and a 1994 sportflics roberto alomar card

obviously, the alomar card looks better in person.

let's see some 1994 upper deck double play turns, starting with this luis alicea electric diamond parallel

i've shown the base version before, and we know that that is mitch webster sliding in on august 29, 1993.  here's another electric diamond parallel - this one is greg gagne

and here's robby thompson's base card

and electric diamond parallel

both with eric young sliding in.  finally, here's jose vizcaino's 1994 upper deck electric diamond parallel

there is a chance that this photo is from the same day as the alicea card up above.  on 8/29/93, the cubs played at atlanta, and el viz was out on the front end of a ryne sandberg 6-4-3 in the third inning.  if so, then that's mark lemke toppling over.

here's a 1995 score jose lind card

before we get into 1995 topps stuff.

and, now here is greg gagne's 1995 topps card

and walt weiss's 1995 topps card

with fellow shortstop royce clayton prominently featured.

it's too bad weiss isn't featured on clayton's 1995 topps card, too.  that honor goes to tim hyers

and here's clayton's cyberstats parallel

if i were better organized, i would be showing all of clayton's turns in a single post.  i'm not that organized, so we'll see some more of clayton in upcoming posts.  or maybe we already have - i'm starting to lose sense of space and time thanks to all of these double plays.