Orphaned Cards Find A Dodger Home

Hey everybody,

We've all seen those trade posts that are waaaay behind on being posted in a timely manner, and now it's my turn to post up some of the same.

Those of you who have been following this humble little blog for a while might remember I took some time off right around the end of 2013 - start of 2014.  Even though ATBATT was dark at that time, there were still a few trades that took place.  Now is as good a time as any to get caught up on a couple of those trades that I have yet to post about.


That said, here come some sweet Dodger autograph cards that came to me from Scott Orphan.

Carlos' main claim to fame is being the second MLB catcher to hail from Venezuela.  It was his bad luck to play backup catcher to Dodger workhorses Mike Scioscia and Mike Piazza.  It was also his bad luck to be born without a consistent home run swing.

Dreifort's claims to fame are being a pitcher who was scouted so highly that he bypassed the farms and jumped straight to the big club, and having the great luck of being a client of super-agent Scott Boras, who convinced the Dodgers to sign Dreifort to an insane amount of money, which he closely followed up with an insane amount of time on the diabled list.

Finally, we close with John Cummings, a local boy from Torrance, who I am automatically a fan of because he's a southpaw pitcher.  I am not, however, a fan of guys who apparently sign their cards while wearing their mitts.

Thanks for the great auto cards, Scott!

Scott and I are presently involved in talks for another trade, so there may be another trade post involving us coming up soon!

Le Gran Trade With Le (Canadian) Dollar Store

Hey everybody,

While awaiting Kershaw's first Opening Day pitch, I'm filling my baseball fix with my blogger brethren reading and posting about cards and trades. 

Here comes a post featuring my newest trade partner,  Douglas, over at the across-the-Canadian-border cardblog, Sportscards From The Dollar Store.


Douglas posted up a Koufax card that I had to have, his insert from The Greats subset in 2013 Topps, and from there, we expanded it into a blind random Dodgers for random Blue Jays and Mets trade.

Doug sent over a nice handful of Dodgers from the 80's thru the 2000's - every one of them a new card for me - and here are a few of the highlights...

 I really enjoyed when Nomar was a Dodger.  His time wearing the home whites seemed so short.

I loved when Nomar came to bat and they would play the opening drum roll/ bass line from War's hit, Low Rider.  It was amazing for me to hear an E.L.A. anthem booming from the speakers at Dodger Stadium.  Goosebumps.

Here's a pitcher who had so much potential lost to arm injury.  Oh well, the Dodgers made him rich anyway, giving him an insane amount of millions to ride the pine.

This is a great card of Rafi in action.  Never mind the reflection from the penny sleeve.  I actually like those lines.

Of course O-Pee-Chee must be involved!  I totally dig this card of Rick Monday, Voltigeur!

  Shown above are a couple of snake-bit Dodger teammates.  Dusty Baker rolled his player days into becoming the biggest-jinxed manager of the modern era.

Saxy limited his troubles to an embarrassing period where he developed a case of the willies and he just couldn't, absolutely couldn't throw a ball in a straight line from second base to first. 

I suspect he made that same face that he's making in the little close-up box whenever he beaned yet another innocent peanut vendor with yet another errant throw.

You want gaudy and gimmicky? You got it!

Finally, the card that started it all. 

Thanks for a great trade Douglas!

Here's an early Happy Easter, everybody!  THANKS for reading.  :)