my most wanted cards walked the plank

i recently sent some cards that i'd been stacking to matt at bob walk the plank. he returned fire by trying to single handedly obliterate my nefarious 9 list of most wanted cards that i keep on the sidebar of my blog. he also mentioned that somewhere in his collection lies a joc pederson card with my name on it. can't wait!

the first card i'll show is one of the non-dodger bonus cards that i list as an appendix to the nefarious 9.  matt found the 1986 leaf dusty baker card

i assume with relative ease. currently, my most wanted non-dodger card is 1995 score #361 brian anderson. it's for my lurker collection.

the main focus of the nefarious 9, however, are dodgers. sometimes, they are cards that will complete a team set, like this 1994 fleer roger mcdowell card

and this 1994 pacific henry rodriguez card

other times, they are cards that i have in parallel form, and i feel weird not having the base. that was the case with this 2019 topps big league kenley jansen card

i had actually ordered the card from sportlots and the seller sent me the gold parallel instead. so the base version went up on the most wanted list.

sometimes, i will add a card that i thought i had but don't. this 2001 topps chrome shawn green card fit that description.

i was a pretty serious green collector in the early 2000's, and thought that i surely would have had at least one of his 2001 topps chrome cards. when i saw that it was on my want list, i double checked and was surprised to find that it was indeed a need. on to the most wanted list it went!

matt sent some other chrome cards from my regular want list - these are from 2001 bowman chrome

a nice 4-pack of vets that whittled my needs for this team set down to a couple of rookies. maybe they will show up on the nefarious 9 in the future.

matt attempted to knock off one more of my most wanted cards, but sent the optic version

instead of the regular 2017 panini donruss jose de leon card. somewhere between those two releases, panini followed de leon to tampa bay. it's an easy mistake to make, and matt still gets an "a" for his efforts.

thanks matt! the list has been refreshed if you (or anyone else) wants to take a run at it. you will be rewarded!

don sutton doesn't always sutton

he was a pitcher, after all.

i recently acquired a big card for my post-dodger don sutton collection showing him in action as an angel

this might have been (it was) the non-dodger sutton card that i coveted the most due to it being from the awesome 2004 upper deck legends timeless teams release and it being an on-card autograph of the dodger double dipper hall of famer suited up for the american league team from orange county.  it's a short print in the set - only 75 copies - and the only one of sutton's four autographs to have that distinction. i am still missing his 1980 card autograph version, however.

i'll request that you take note that sutton is no older than 42 in that photo. 1970's baseball must have been a hard knock life.

in other sutton news, i submitted a post the other day to kevin at the diamond king regarding the hall of fame righty as part of the “take him or leave him” series kevin is hosting. check it out if you haven’t already. 

the cards i showed in that post are mostly recent pick-ups for my sutton collection, including a 2020 topps series 2 decades’ best

the photo topps used is not from the 60’s.

this is a 2005 donruss signature series k force insert

and this is from 2017 panini chronicles

the last card i showed in that post we sutton’s 1986 leaf card

which was one of my “most wanted” for a short time (or was it his 1987 leaf card?)

no matter, i recently added them both to the collection. 

here are a few more sutton cards i’ve added over the last few months:

1985 topps stickers (with mookie wilson)

 

2005 donruss diamond kings hof heroes framed red parallel

2005 playoff prestige prestigious pros red parallel

2005 upper deck classics classic moments

2006 upper deck sp legendary cuts ultimate legendary materials

i also showed a photo of sutton in that post at the diamond king. 

i promised a separate post here in the future that will address that photo and others like it, and i’m working on it. 

stay tuned.