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Dodgers Baseball Cards: A Labor Of Love

1981 Topps Traded Fernando Valenzuela was number one on Delias Man's list.

Last October, True Blue LA member Delias Man started a project of counting down his 25 favorite Dodgers baseball cards. The cards covered a wide range of styles and years, covering 60 or so years of Dodgers history.

This was a perfect example of how to utilize the Fan Posts feature. For those new to the site, you can make your voice heard by creating your own post, provided it is at least 75 words long, and it will show up on the right sidebar of the site.

Here is a link to the top 25 baseball card posts by Delias Man. Enjoy:

  1. Fernando
  2. Drysdale
  3. Koufax
  4. Hodges
  5. 1955 Bowman
  6. Garvey
  7. Lasorda
  8. Kershaw
  9. Duke
  10. The Big Three
  11. Bulldog
  12. Cey
  13. Piazza
  14. Tommy Davis
  15. Beltre
  16. Sutton
  17. Kemp
  18. Lopes
  19. Murray
  20. The Core
  21. Babe Ruth
  22. Wills & 1959 World Series
  23. Frank Robinson
  24. Our Favorite Closers
  25. Ethier

Also, there were three cards that didn't make the cut. I enjoyed this trip down memory lane, and a look at some wonderful baseball cards.

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2010 Topps Series I: A Few More Cards

I got a few 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:

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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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2010 Topps Series I Baseball Cards

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:

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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:

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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:

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Today in Dodger History: Willie Davis For Mike Marshall

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:

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No, not that Mike Marshall.  This one:

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2009 Topps Heritage

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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 Series I

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. :)

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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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2012 Dodgers Payroll

Italics denote estimates
Pos No Player 2012 Salary
C 17 Ellis $500,000 team control
1B 7 Loney $6,375,000
2B 14 Ellis $2,500,000
3B 5 Uribe $8,000,000
SS 9 Gordon $485,000 team control
LF 21 Rivera $4,000,000
CF 27 Kemp $10,000,000
RF 16 Ethier $10,950,000

IF/OF 6 Hairston $2,250,000
OF 10 Gwynn $850,000
2B/3B 3 Kennedy $800,000
C 18 Treanor $850,000
IF 12 Sellers $485,000 team control

SP 22 Kershaw $6,000,000
SP 58 Billingsley $9,000,000
SP 29 Lilly $12,000,000
SP 35 Capuano $3,000,000
SP 44
Harang $3,000,000

CL 54 Guerra $485,000 team control
RHP 74
Jansen $500,000 team control
RHP 55 Guerrier $4,750,000
RHP 60 Coffey $1,000,000
RHP 66 MacDougal $650,000
LHP 57 Elbert $485,000 team control
RHP 36
Hawksworth $500,000 team control

TJ 41 De La Rosa $485,000 team control



Manny $8,087,432 deferred


Andruw $3,375,000 deferred


Pierre $3,050,000 deferred
Furcal $3,000,000 deferred
Kuroda $2,000,000 deferred
Garland $1,500,000 option buyout
Blake $1,250,000 option buyout

Totals
$112,162,432

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Players on 40-man roster used as roster
fillers until moves are made.

Current 40-man roster count: 40
(not including Belisario)

2012 Non-Roster Invitees

No Player Age*
63 Jose Ascanio rhp
27
61 Alberto Castillo lhp
36
56 Matt Chico lhp
29
33 John Grabow lhp
33
59 Angel Guzman rhp
30
47 Wil Ledezma lhp
31
72 Shane Lindsay rhp
27
62 Fernando Nieve rhp 29
73 Scott Rice lhp 30
70 Will Savage rhp
27
71 Ryan Tucker rhp
25
28 Jamey Wright rhp
37

30 Josh Bard c 34
82 Griff Erickson c 24
81 Matt Wallachc 26
67 Jeff Baisley 3b/1b 29
65 Luis Cruz ss/2b 28
37 Josh Fields 3b 29
64 Lance Zawadzki if 27
56 Cory Sullivan of 32

*Age on June 30, 2012

NRI count: 20

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Manager

Eric___ned___reporters_2011_trade_deadline_small Eric Stephen

Editors

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Dgy_small David Young

Hanauma_bay_small Chad Moriyama

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