Blog Kiosk: 3/8/2019 - Dodgers Links - Some Odds and Ends

Seaman Johnny Podres is seen above receiving the 1955 Babe Ruth Award for his exploits during the 1955 World Series. The above pic is currently on auction at Hunt Auctions (link here).

Below are more links to check out:

• This Day in Dodgers History: In 1941 teammates Joe Medwick and Pee Wee Reese wear protective headgear during a spring exhibition game in Havana, Cuba. They placed plastic inserts -- dubbed a “Brooklyn Safety Cap” -- inside their hats. Both players had missed significant time the previous season due to head injuries; including a scare that sent Medwick to the hospital for fear of a cracked skull. You can see a patent design for the cap on the right, via Baseball Hall of Fame. Click pic to embiggen. In 2011 former Dodger Assistant General Manager Kim Ng is named by MLB as the Senior Vice-President of its baseball operations, making her the highest-ranking woman in the major leagues.
• Happy Birthday, Ollie O'Mara, Carl Furillo, Al Gionfriddo, Dick Teed, Marv Breeding, Willard Hunter,  Dick Allen & Juan Encarnacion!

Blog Kiosk: 9/30/2014 - Dodger Links - Some Odds and Ends

Adrian Gonzales was named the Dodgers nominee for the 2014 Hank Aaron Award.  This is an award that allows for fan participation via online voting at MLB.com for the most outstanding offensive performer in the league.  Additionally, a special panel of Hall of Fame players led by Hank Aaron will join fans in voting for the award.  BTW, Matt Kemp won the Hank Aaron Award in 2011.  The photo above is via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2014.  Go here to vote.

Now, below are some links to check out:

• ICYMI:  Game 1 of the NLDS game against the Cardinals on Friday will begin at 3:37 PM and will be aired on Fox Sports 1.  Game 2 on Saturday will begin at 6:37 PM and will be on the MLB Network.
• Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider writes, "NLDS first look: Breaking down the Cardinals."
• Via Chad Thornburg at MLB.com, "Position-by-position breakdown for Cardinals-Dodgers."
• Rich Mueller at Sports Collectors Daily has a bunch of preview pics of Topps 2015 Gypsy Queen set.  It comes out in April 2015.  To the right is a Yasiel Puig autographed button relic card.
• Via Dodger Penguin, he shares some photos from his Saturday afternoon at La Gran Fiesta at Dodger Stadium; including all of his autograph gets.
• Puig Destroyer's newest EP comes out today.  Listen to a full album stream here at Metal Injection, "PUIG DESTROYER Get You Amped For The Baseball Post-Season Grind With Full EP Stream."
• Ricky Nolasco still loves us.  Via David Brown at Big League Stew, "Twins pitcher Ricky Nolasco says he wishes he still played for Dodgers."
• Via Ron Cervenka at Think Blue LA, "Don Newcombe – A positive influence on today’s Dodgers."  Thank you for relaying this, Ron.

Dodgers legend Don Newcombe, all 6′ 4″ of him, quietly walked through the Dodgers clubhouse going from locker to locker to congratulated each and every Dodger player for winning the National League West championship. To a man, each Dodger player stopped whatever they were doing or saying to acknowledge and thank the man who, but for his tender 19 years of age, could have been the man Branch Rickey selected to break baseball’s color barrier instead of Jackie Robinson. Some of the players merely acknowledged and thanked Newcombe by shaking his hand, but most embraced him warmly with genuine appreciation.

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2014 Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball - The Dodger Autographs and Relics

Following up on yesterdays post featuring the Dodger base cards from the 2014 Gypsy Queen set, I now share the Dodger autograph and relic cards.  Check them out below.  See my previous post on this set here.

Autographed Cards

#GQA-MMA Matt Magill                     #GQA-RN Ricky Nolasco

Around the Horn Autographed Pop Up Book Card

#ATH-SK Sandy Koufax

The below pic shows the "pop-up" part of the card.

Relic Cards

#GQR-ZG Zack Greinke

Jumbo Patch Relics

#GJR-CK Clayton Kershaw

#GJR-HJR Hyun-Jin Ryu

#GJR-YP Yasiel Puig

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2014 Topps Museum Baseball - The Dodger Autographed Cards

Featured here are the Dodger autographed cards that can be found in packs of 2014 Topps Museum Baseball packs.  Go here to check out my past post from this set.

Unfortunately, many of the key autographed cards have either a redemption card or have yet to be found.  For instance:

• There are cut signature "1 of 1" cards of Don Drysdale (#MCCS-DD) and Duke Snider (#MCCS-DS); and
• Dual Archival Autographs of Hank Aaron & Sandy Koufax (#DDA-KA) and Hyun-Jin Ryu & Clayton Kershaw (#DDA-RK) available only through redemption cards; and 
• a Triple Archival Autographs card of Fernandez, Ryu & Miller (#TAA-FRM) available only through redemption card; and
• an Archival Clayton Kershaw (#AA-CK), like the ones directly below, that is available only through a redemption card.

Archival Autographs

#AA-AGO Adrian Gonzalez

#AA-RN Ricky Nolasco

#AA-SK Sandy Koufax

There are also Framed Museum Collection Autographed cards of Clayton Kershaw (#MCA-CK) and Hyun-Jin Ryu (#MCA-HR), but they only have redemption cards available.

Framed Museum Collection Autographs

#MCA-AG Adrian Gonzalez                    #MCA-SK Sandy Koufax

There are also Momentous Material Jumbo Relic Autographed cards of Adrian Gonzalez (#MMAR-AGO) and Clayton Kershaw (#MMAR-CK), but they have yet to be unearthed.  From my understanding, the Kershaw card comes with a redemption.

UPDATE: Below is a pic of the Adrian Gonzalez Momentous Material Jumbo Relic Autographed card (#MMAR-AGO) and the Clayton Kershaw Momentous Material Jumbo Relic Autographed card (#MMAR-CK.

Momentous Material Jumbo Relic Autographs

#MMAR-RN Ricky Nolasco

There is a Single-Player Signature Swatches Dual Relic Autographed card of Clayton Kershaw (#SSD-CK), but only a redemption card is available.  BTW, there also Signature Swatches Quad Relic Autographed cards of Adrian Gonzalez (#PPAR-AG) and Clayton Kershaw (#PPAR-CK), but they too have yet to be found.

Single-Player Signature Swatches Dual Relic Autographs

#SSD-AGO Adrian Gonzalez

#SSD-RN Ricky Nolasco

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2014 Topps Museum Baseball - The Dodger Base Cards

With the regular season just beginning for the rest of the Major Leagues, Topps released their newest 2014 Baseball card set last week.  It is their high-end Museum offering, and it includes plenty of Dodger goodies to gawk at.  For now, I'll start by showing you the Dodger base cards to the set.  Over the next few days I'll share the various inserts, relics and autographed cards that are available.

Base Set

#3 Yasiel Puig                                     #18 Ricky Nolasco

#41 Adrian Gonzalez                              #44 Clayton Kershaw

#76 Sandy Koufax

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Blog Kiosk: 3/11/2014 - Dodgers Links - Some Recent Dodger Roster Moves

We see you, Hanley... Even in cardboard form.  Pic via @Dodgers on twitter.

• Mark Saxon at ESPNLosAngeles.com shares, "A Q&A on Australian baseball with ex-Dodger Craig Shipley".
• As you may know, 2014 Topps Heritage Baseball cards have been delayed for a week.  It officially comes out on the 14th.  At right is an early peek at the Puig card, via @Toppscards on twitter.
• The Dodgers made some more roster moves last night.  They have optioned RHP Matt Magill and reassigned JC Boscan, Carlos Frias, Brendan Harris and Clint Robinson.
• Redditor snapetom shared a whole bunch of photos from Camelback Ranch on imgur.  Go here to check them out.
• Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Howell's wife completes feat 14 years in the making".
• Via Eric Stephen at True Blue LA, "Brian Wilson, Brandon League & varying concern".

On Wilson: "The reason I ended up going out there was because Rick [Honeycutt, pitching coach] said he saw something. As Greg is talking to him, he said he's not hurting anywhere. He did say he warmed up a long time that inning," Mattingly said. "He sounds fine."
On League: "Obviously we're not happy with the results. Brandon's not happy with the results," Mattingly said. "We continue on, we're glad it's spring training. He's getting work, and you've got to continue to get better and get the ball where you want to get it. His velocities are up, pretty much where we expect him to be."

• GCRL shares a in-the-mail autograph success story featuring former Dodger hurler Ricky Nolasco.

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2014 Topps Series 1 Baseball - The Autographed Dodgers Cards

This will be my last post featuring Dodgers' cards from 2014 Topps Series 1 Baseball.  Well... It'll be my last post until cards from the Spring Fever redemption set start making their way into collectors hands.  In the meantime, check out some of the Dodgers' autographed insert cards from Topps.  Go here to see all of my previous post featuring this set.

Below is the only Ricky Nolasco autographed card with him wearing Dodger Blue.

Trajectory Autographs

#TA-BBU Bill Buckner

#TA-RN Ricky Nolasco

#TA-SK Sandy Koufax

There are numerous Dodgers' redemption cards; including redemptions for a Pedro Martinez (#BGA-PM) and Sandy Koufax (#BGA-SK) 'Before They Were Great Autographs'. 

Directly below is a Adrian Gonzalez Super Veterans autographed card.  An autographed relic card also exist (#SVAR-AG), but I have yet to see one.

Super Veterans Autographs

#SVA-AG Adrian Gonzalez

UPDATE:  Here is a pic of the Adrian Gonzalez Super Veterans autograph relic card

#SVAR-AG Adrian Gonzalez

Postseason Performance Autographs

#PPA-CK Clayton Kershaw

There are also a couple of Hyun-Jin Ryu autographed cards (without a relic piece) in the set, but I have yet to find a reasonably attractive photo to post yet (#FNA-HR1 & #FNA-HR2).  Also, their are a couple of Yasiel Puig autographed relic cards in the set, but only a redemption card is available currently (#FNAR-YP1 & #FNAR-YP2).

UPDATE:  Below are some pics provided by Topps tumblr of "The Future is Now" Yasiel Puig autographed relic cards  (#FNAR-YP1 & #FNAR-YP2):

The Future Is Now Autograph Relics

#FNAR-HR1 Hyun-Jin Ryu

#FNAR-HR2 Hyun-Jin Ryu

A Yasiel Puig Postseason Performance Autographed Relic card (#PPAR-YP) is also available, but only through a redemption.

UPDATE:   Below are some pics provided by Topps tumblr of "Postseason Performance Autographed Relic" card of Yasiel Puig.

Postseason Performance Autograph Relic

#PPAR-CK Clayton Kershaw

And to just be complete, below is a checklist for the Dodgers' Strata Cut Signatures cards.  They are all '1 of 1' cards, and none of them have appeared in the hobby.

#SCS-DD Don Drysdale
#SCS-DS Duke Snider
#SCS-LD Leo Durocher
#SCS-PR1 Pee Wee Reese
#SCS-PR2 Pee Wee Reese

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2014 Topps Baseball Series 1 - The Dodgers' Base Cards

There are now Baseball cards available to usher in the new year, and I've got pics of all the Dodgers' base cards to prove it.  

There are 13 Dodger cards in the 331 card base set; two of which are League Leaders cards featuring Clayton Kershaw.  Also of note are the Topps All-Star Rookie Cups emblazoned on the Ryu and Puig cards.

As you may already know, there are a whole bunch of short-printed variations in the set.  In fact, I count at least 11 different Dodger variations, and there may be more yet to be uncovered.  I'll have pics of all known available Dodger variations up soon.

In the meantime, check out the base set below.

#6 Josh Beckett                                  #40 Hyun-Jin Ryu

#72 Michael Young                                 #111 Mark Ellis

#113 League Leaders (Kershaw, Fernandez, Harvey)   

#142 Zack Greinke                              #173 Brandon League

#193 Ricky Nolasco

#197 Onelki Garcia                           #204 Adrian Gonzalez

#294 League Leaders (Wainwright, Zimmerman, Kershaw)

#314 Hanley Ramirez                                  #331 Yasiel Puig

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