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Monday, February 07, 2011
Follow The Dodgers
With Spring around the corner and the new Baseball season upon us I suddenly felt the desire to listen to that old Brooklyn Dodger fight song played by organist Gladys Goodding that I had written about last year. It is called "Follow the Dodgers." Unfortunately, the link I had in my original post to a recording is now defunct so I crossed my fingers in hope that some benevolent fan had put it up on YouTube. To my joy and surprise, someone had. Check it out below and sing along. A great amount of thanks to drakghoulie for putting it up.
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Kershaw Sparkles Too
The Diamond Sparkle is located on a shirt button just below the Los Angeles script. A couple Kershaw's have already traded on eBay at prices ranging from $25.00 to $45.00 a piece. It remains to been soon how scarce they are, but I've heard that they are showing up at a rate of just one a case.
2011 Topps: Dodger Base Cards
Here are the Dodger base cards within the 2011 Topps Series 1 set. As always various parallel cards exist- from black borders to Diamond. Also of special note are the legends short printed base cards that has a legend share a card number with a current ballplayer. Both Jackie and Campanella are a part of this short printed set.
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Take note of this particular card below. It is a limited variation that can be hard to spot if not paying attention. On the top left corner is the old-school Topps logo.
Vicente Padilla, #37
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Hong-Chih Kuo, #46
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Ted Lilly, #36
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Take note of this particular card below. It is a limited variation that can be hard to spot if not paying attention. On the top left corner is the old-school Topps logo.
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Hong-Chih Kuo, #46
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Russell Martin, #114![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcKN3DGFWgJ4qrubEIUHZd0S7YmbzWhGYJyEJEbpoB7dhpYba-X9eZciIUMaSa86ZnVjmGW2qZIhJPix0SkwiI7Sn9eDu7Tn_p661m3sc2XS_VUcO0s-zsrIopnj3wQkkNw2iSxg/s320/martin.jpg)
Casey Blake, #158
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Andre Ethier, #240![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2IEDQonBX2NdokwkTsYIOTFk3UI9Uv02F7jHW6uBoVK4AzcZAbWpKMpfLURZaojTj2lPTPoo5UpIUPVoLMz34Oqw448lT0x6pQM0TDhbOo6BYA4IWuPTAejgq9XgJpPkablyEGA/s320/ethier.jpg)
Clayton Kershaw, #275![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE9qCGTOy67rxMVSfsvSJ7xahyphenhyphenzH0Tordj0IGVtKK3BHPwejlRTxe4_0bQ56v8_YDOuOut5Za1c3fpha4WiVJIZ2wgnM8SZvib7oAmx1QUAozmaBOUQ-aw5NZqukxpCckh5KGXjQ/s320/ker.jpg)
James Loney, #305
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Casey Blake, #158
Andre Ethier, #240
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Clayton Kershaw, #275
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James Loney, #305
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Of all the different parallel cards found in this card set I never imagined myself liking this one. Below is the Diamond variation of Kershaw. Something tells me a complete set of these in pocket-pages would just look glorious.
Here are the Legend short print cards of Dodgers below. The Jackie shares a card number with Desmond Jennings and the Campy shares the card number with former Dodger catching prospect Carlos Santana. It appears the player they share a number with compares favorable with one another. For instance, Ty Cobb shares a card number with Ichiro, Schmidt with ARod, Walter Johnson with Roy Halladay, etc.
Jackie Robinson, #80
Roy Campanella, #209
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