the almost daily dodger - hideo nomo

after posting some hiroki kuroda cards last week and mentioning hideo nomo in that post, i figured i would make the next "almost daily dodger" installment all about the 1995 national league rookie of the year. i have had a few nomo cards in my scanned folder for awhile, and here they are!

1995 bowman's best

this card was unattainable in 1995

1998 pacific aurora on deck laser cut

there is a lot going on with that card. add some more foil treatment and it is peak 1990's insert!

2003 fleer tradition b&w goudey

this is a square-ish card, numbered on the back

2004 upper deck etchings

this one is the newest to me, as it was a throw in to complete a sportlots order sometime in the summer

2004 upper deck play ball

this was at one time a nefarious nine need of mine. i think i have seen those clouds on some topps heritage cards circa 2021.

with these cards, i am approaching 500 dodger cards for nomo. i don't know that i have any of his non-dodger cards in my mini-collections, but most of those aren't entered into tcdb yet anyway. i am guessing i will eventually hit 500 but i don't see myself getting too far past that milestone.

is this the worst baseball card ever?

i can't imagine i've pulled a worse card than this one

from a pack. i mean, kudos to fleer trying to make the checklists in their 2003 tradition release a bit more interesting, but i would rather have an all text checklist card than a card centered on a player's crotch. i have another checklist card that pairs up with the one above to create 2/9 of the full image

here's what the backs look like

i also have checklist cards featuring a knee and upper body of barry bonds:

here are the backs of the bonds' cards:

i wasn't sure who that player up top was when i first found those cards in packs - i would have guessed magglio ordonez - but i recently discovered, thanks to comc, that it's derek jeter! 

yeah jeets!

i am curious if others have opinions on what might be a worse card to pull in terms of imagery?