garvey cey russell lopes: 2003 topps opening day

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01 January 2013

seen any good double play cards lately?

wanna see some more? the double play dump continues. here's jose macias on his 2002 upper deck card

edgardo alfonzo on his 2002 upper deck authentics card

craig biggio on his 2002 upper deck authentics card

carlos guillen on his 2003 donruss card

rey ordonez on his 2003 donruss card

edgar renteria on his 2003 donruss card

michael young on his 2003 donruss card

jose hernandez on his 2003 topps opening day card

ramon vazquez on his 2004 mlb showdown card

edgar renteria (again) on his 2004 topps gold glove subset card

carlos guillen (again) on his 2004 topps traded card

alex cintron on his 2005 topps card

and placido polanco on his 2005 topps chrome card

and we're not done yet...

31 December 2012

this card almost made my header

when i was putting together the header for this blog just over 4 years and two months ago, i considered including a card of an expo. specifically, this 2002 topps total orlando cabrera card.

that's why the first time i showed it, i used a photo (like the header) of it rather than a scan. i considered using it in the header because i thought that it showed a couple other elements of my collection - cards featuring dodger stadium, and cards featuring the double play turn. in the end, i decided against using it, mostly to keep the header free of non-dodgers. besides, this version of the play, featured on cabrera's 2002 fleer premium card,

shows dodger stadium better - that's sandy koufax's outfield wall retired number mural - but was strangely cropped and doesn't show the double play as well.

cabrera's 2002 topps gold label card is quite shiny and shows the same play as well

i know i have shown all three of those cards before, but i can't show one without the others.

here are some o-cab cards that haven't been featured here before. like his 1999 skybox premium card

his 2003 donruss card

his 2003 topps opening day card

his 2006 topps card

and his 2008 topps chrome card

with refractor!

you may recall that cabrera was the guy who replaced nomar in 2004 and went on to win the world series as the red sox's starting shortstop. that 'short stop' in boston kind of kickstarted the weary traveler stage of cabrera's career that saw him play for 7 franchises in the next 7 years.

another guy who bounced around a bit was roberto alomar, seen here on his 2003 topps traded card

here he is again on his 2003 fleer double header card

before he was traded to the white sox. the first time.

cabrera is not alone in regards to his 2002 fleer premium card, either. here is rafael furcal's card from the set, which also has him turning two in dodger stadium

although he's turning two in philly on his 2001 upper deck card

other 2001 upper deck double plays include edgardo alfonzo

warren morris

and pokey reese

who also turns two on his 2001 fleer ultra card

that's not the last we'll see of pokey reese, either. more double play cards coming tomorrow!

the turns of kent

i don't seem to have any cards of jeff kent turning two while he was a dodger. that's too bad, because i know i have cards of him doing so as a met and, as we will see shortly, as a giant. i did stumble across this oddball a few weeks ago, however, and while not quite as cool as a double play turn, it was still interesting enough to acquire. besides, it features kent as a dodger. it's a card from 2005 topps hot button

which as far as i can tell was some sort of electronic game - possibly intended to compete with mlb showdown. it must not have done well, because it didn't stick around, and topps moved on to toppstown and attax.

so, here are some gigante kent double play cards, as promised up top. some of them aren't half bad.

2001 upper deck

1998 topps

these guys would eventually be teammates in los angeles

1999 pacific crown collection

2001 leaf rookies and stars

another card from 2001 upper deck - this one masquerading as a checklist

these two guys would be teammates, too - in houston

here's kent's 2002 upper deck card

which i believe features the same play shown on his 2001 leaf rookies and stars card i showed above. i believe r&s came out late enough in the season for it to feature action from the 2001 season, which makes sense because adam hyzdu didn't play against the giants in 2000. on 8/2/01, however, hyzdu did play in a day game at san francisco in which he was out on the front end of a double play that ended the 8th inning. thanks baseball reference!

continuing on, here's kent's 2002 upper deck authentics card

featuring two future dodgers, although they were not teammates.

kent has also appeared on other double play cards, such as this 1998 pacific jose vizcaino card

and this 2003 topps opening day rich aurilia card

there are actually a couple more kent double play cards that i am on the lookout for - 2001 pacific and 2001 pacific private stock extreme action - if anyone can help. it's weird, i know, to be wanting cards featuring a giant. the things i do for some double play action...