(Greetings all. I am currently on vacation. Expect sporadic programming over the next several days. It doesn't seem fair that more free time should mean less cards, but the rest of the world has yet to get on my schedule. One day everyone will come around. It's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 254th in a series): Happy Jackie Robinson Day. This is one of my favorite Jackie Robinson cards. If you're saying, "hey, that's not Jackie Robinson," then you need to look at backgrounds a little more closely. To me, this card is definitely all about Robinson. It says that Robinson is looking over, holding up, the inspiration for, the reason for, the career of any minority pro baseball player, whether they're from this country or not. Luis Vasquez, from that Dominican city that produced so many major leaguers, San Pedro de Macoris, never reached the majors. During a nine-year career, he made it as high as Triple A, both for the Dodgers in Alb...
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