I got afew more packs of 2010 Topps Series I baseball cards, and got a few more Dodger cards.  This first one is awesome, the Dodgers "franchise history'" card:

You gotta love that picture of old Ebbets Field. Here's a look at the back of that card, which shows all-time and current team leaders:

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Inspired and reminded by Roberto Baly of Vin Scully Is My Homeboy, I decided to grab a few packs of 2010 Topps Series I baseball cards, new in stores this week.  Only one of the packs had any Dodgers in it, and oh what a pair they were:

The design is a bit similar to last season, although this year features the larger team logo rather than the small logo ("LA" logo in 2009) on a home plate background.  I am not a fan of the border around the name, but I am a fan of this photo.

Topps no longer puts bubble gum in these packs (they do, however, with their Heritage series), but they occasionally do include a Bison:

That is a sweet photo of Matt Kemp, running down a fly ball at what I'm fairly certain is AT&T Park.  The Dodgers only played two day games in San Francisco in 2009: August 12 (the Lincecum / Juan Uribe weekday game) and September 13.  I couldn't find any flyballs to deep centerfield in the September game, but on August 12 there were two:

• 2nd inning, Eugenio Velez (1st out)
• 2nd inning, Pablo Sandoval (2nd out)
  

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The baseball winter meetings begin in Indianapolis on Monday.  The Dodgers don't figure to be very active, at least not on big ticket items, so let's go back to one of the most momentous winter meetings in Dodger history.  On this date 36 years ago, December 5, 1973, the Dodgers traded their longtime star center fielder Willie Davis to the Expos for this man:

No, not that Mike Marshall.  This one:

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A few years back, Topps decided to pay homage to baseball cards of yesteryear, and introduced the Topps Heritage series.  The idea is solid:  today's players on cards of 50 years ago -- well, actually 49 years ago.

This year's set has the design of 1960 Topps, a very colorful design with alternating colors in each letter of player names.

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2009 Topps baseball cards hit stores this week, with the release of Series I.  Here's a look at the set with the help of some Dodgers.   I really like this picture of James McDonald.  He seems to have a bit of Matt Kemp Eyes; or perhaps he is showing disdain for the batter.  McDonald did after all have a 0.00 ERA in 2008. :)

I like the design of the cards this year.  There is very little clutter, leaving a lot of room for the pictures.  The home plate logo on the bottom right looks pretty cool too.  I'm not a big fan of the "Rookie Card" notation because it clutters up the card.  Also, if a player is good enough to have his rookie card worth anything, collectors will figure out which cards are his rookie cards, without the need for a special mark on the card.

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