The other day I received one of those pink postage-due-your-cards-are-waiting-for-you-way-down-at-the-post-office slips.
I always go and pay the postage because CARDS, and even being down to one vehicle — that also needs work done kind of immediately — wasn’t going to stop me. It was a little surprising how much “postage due” has gone up for simple PWE, but after seeing the contents, I was happy I made the effort. Certainly worth the cost. This wasn’t 1991 Donruss.
The cards arrived from reader Casey, all 13 of them stuffed into that one envelope, and some required extra protection, too. But it was good stuff, not the average modern cards that I usually receive.
I’ll start with one of the many parallels in products these days. This is one of the acceptable ones because it involves color, and also I’m always grateful when someone sends me an Ohtani card.
My first team logo border parallel. I’ve seen plenty of these online over the last couple of years but never pulled one or even looked to purchase one. I think these looked better with the team logo around the whole border, but at least we’re talking about a Yamamoto card here.
My first 2026 Heritage chrome Dodger. Social media has given Dalton Rushing a lot of grief lately, and it’s yet another reason to get off of social media. Yeah, Rushing looks like he’s about to kill someone most of the time but intense ballplayers have been a thing forever and not everyone on a major league field is going to be hugging it out all the time.
Oooh, two nifty relics of World Series heroes. Now you know why I paid up (and why I had to pay up). I may have to keep looking at the Sasaki card as keeps giving up runs to remind me that he actually saved the Dodgers last postseason.
There were a few 2017 Honus Bonus game cards in the envelope. I’ve finished the main Dodgers team set except one card, but there was no Logan Forsythe in there. There were a couple of the silver foil parallels, and I needed this Adrian Gonzalez.
Also from the Honus Bonus set and the most puzzling card in the envelope. “1 of 1”? What?
It turns out there is exactly one card issued for each of Adrian Beltre’s 2,942 hits (his total at the time). I have the card for hit No. 231. It is only my second 1 of 1 card and officially the most suspect. Also I am pushing it calling it a Dodger card as he’s listed as a Ranger on the Honus Bonus checklist and on the card. But hit 231 came as a Dodger so into the binder it goes!
Finally, a 2020 Heritage Greatest Moments card, which came in the original packaging. Neat! This card commemorates Lux getting a base hit on the first pitch he saw in a major league game. He’s not the only one to do that, it’s happened many times.
I’ve long loved the original Greatest Moments cards in the 1971 Topps set. I used to search online for the two Dodgers in the set, note that they cost too much, and that would be that. Now I don’t even bother doing that because I can only imagine how much they cost now.
And that was everything in the envelope. I think, my card desk is a complete muddle with the way life has been the last two months.
I really do appreciate the eclectic send, it certainly did make my day when I got back from the post office — whatever day that was.