Big box o' fun, part 2

These are some of the Dodgers that David of Tribe Cards sent me as part of his "everything must go" giveaway. Like I said in Part 1, he sent a monstrous box of hundreds of cards. Among them were between 300 and 400 Dodgers.

There were very few doubles. The nine 1994 Topps Pedro Martinez cards had me going for a second. I thought Dave might bury me in Pedros like he did dayf with Alomars, but the nine Pedros were the most of one card in the box. The rest were cool cards like the Gary Carter Stadium Club up top (Carter looks intense).

And extremely cool cards like this one, which I think is from the 1971 Fleer World Series sticker set. The only version of this card I had was from the sticker inserts that Fleer put in cards during the early 1980s.

This card features all the glorious details of the Dodgers' spanking of the Yankees in the '63 Series. Wish I was around for that one.

This card also reminds me that I would like to change my banner one day and add some key cards to it. This card would be one of them. I actually have a banner ready to go, but everytime I try to add it, the image overlaps the right side of the blue border, which isn't a good look. I click "shrink to fit" when adding the image and everything. Anyone know how to get around this?

These cards look like regular 1987 Topps, but they're the Topps Tiffany cards from that year, which have a glossy finish and a lighter back.

This particular Topps Tiffany card is disturbing for two reasons. The first is what appears to be accumulation of spit in the corners of Williams' mouth. I know, it's gross. Which is why the photographer should have given Williams a towel before he took his picture instead of presenting him like this on this card for ALL OF ETERNITY.

The second disturbing item is the man in the jacket in the background over Williams' right shoulder. He is pointing at Williams, and it looks rather ominous to me. What kind of sinister plot is afoot?

Believe it or not, I have waited a long time to obtain this card. Bruce Aven played for the area minor league team during the mid-1990s. I may have interviewed him. I don't remember. But the thing that I do remember about him was that when he played here his father, who lived in Texas, would call our newspaper almost single morning to find out how Bruce did. Now isn't that a proud papa!

Here is another odd style choice. Alfredo Griffin wearing the huge, oversized batting helmet. Everything was about the big or high hat in the early '90s. I'm not sure why people thought that was cool. It always looked dopey to me.

All right, this might be my surprise from David. Either that or the Barry Bonds and Will Clark cards I got. Andruw Jones has a great future? I guess the crystal ball didn't cover 2008.

Here are four cool cards of Nomo. I've mentioned that Nomo has the best cards of any major leaguer. I will never have the most Nomo cards of any collector, but one of these days I'm going to show all my Nomo cards just to prove my point that he has everyone beat when it comes to cool cards.

This pose should be banned from trading cards. It makes players look cocky, and not in a good way. And if they don't pan out like Ashley, it just looks embarrassing.

Here's a hopeful Andy LaRoche, pretending he just hit a game-winning grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series. Now he's with the Pirates, with no chance of that ever happening.

I'm ending with some Donruss cards, back before they lost their license for failing to pay a stack of parking tickets.

I'm woefully short in the 1983 Donruss Dodgers department. These two help a lot.

But this card is the LAST card I need to complete the 1981 Donruss Dodgers set. Thanks, Dave! You found another one!

I hope you enjoyed the big box o' fun half as much as I did. Thanks for sticking around to the end. And vote in the Manny poll!