the big blue wrecking crew takes on the big red machine in the steve garvey binders

before we get to sheet 35 in my steve garvey binder (the sheet alluded to in the title of this post and in the last sentence of the previous garvey binder post), we have to get through sheet 34.  and it's no slouch.  take a look:

those cards are:

1. 2001 upper deck vintage timeless teams bat relic
2. 2001 upper deck vintage timeless teams 1981 dodgers bat relic (with ron cey, dusty baker, and bill russell)
3. 2002 donruss recollection collection 1984 donruss autograph
4. 2002 donruss recollection collection 1987 donruss autograph
5. 2002 fleer classic cuts bat relic
6. 2002 fleer fall classic
7. 2002 fleer fall classic short print padres variation
8. 2002 fleer fall classic gold parallel
9. 2002 fleer fall classic short print padres variation gold parallel

the first card on the sheet is the very first garvey relic card i owned.  i was very happy to get the other relic from the 2001 upper deck vintage set as it has four of the players from the team of my youth (and it's numbered to 100), but i do wish that davey lopes was on the card instead of dusty baker.  not much else to say here, other than it is curious that fleer made the nameplate gold on the fall classic parallel of the regular card, but not on the gold parallel of the variation.

here are the backs:

i wish i could find a recollection collection card from the three years that donruss produced cards of garvey in a dodger uniform, but there are only 10 copies of one of his 1982 donruss cards in this particular set.  so, i'm happy to have the 1984 donruss card, which is numbered to 14.  the two gold parallels from the 2002 fleer fall classic set are both numbered to 50.

here's sheet 35, which features nothing but garvey and the reds' tony perez:

those cards are:

1. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (retail version)

2. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez 

3. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (perez jersey relic - gray)

4. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (perez jersey relic - red)

5. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (perez jersey relic - white)

6. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (garvey jersey relic)

7. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (dual jersey relic)

8. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (dual patch relic - red)

9. 2002 fleer fall classic rival factions with tony perez (dual patch relic - red/blue)

yes, i am a sucker for variations, including the color of jersey relics.  it's worth noting that the retail version of the rival factions insert was pretty tough to find, even though it is unnumbered - i don't know how many people bought this stuff at the local big box store.  there are a thousand of the hobby version, so i would guess that there are many more of the retail version, but i don't know that i've ever seen one other than the one i have.  otherwise, only the patch cards are numbered (to 50).  here are the backs:

the official beckett checklist says that there is a red foil version of the rival factions card out there, but i have definitely not seen one of those.