("I've never met a beer I didn't drink." RIP, George Wendt, one of many reasons I was doing the same thing every Thursday at 9 p.m. in the '80s. Time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 352nd in a series): The always friendly and informative Trading Card Database says I own 346 cards of Orel Hershiser. Of that total, approximately 140 are from the years 1985 to 1989, or 40 percent. Of those 140, about 60 are oddballs, with 27, give or take a card or two, arriving in boxed sets. Most of these cards are pervasive, extremely easy to find and I wouldn't be a serious Dodgers card collector if I didn't have plenty of extras. I've operated for a long time thinking I've owned just about every Hershiser card from this time period except for some rarely produced, unheard of item that only a guy like this , wherever he may be now, knows. This is why my eyes practically popped out of my head recently when I saw the above card and knew instantly tha...
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