I hope people had a good 4th of July yesterday. I have aged out of the water park/fireworks spectaculars that were part of my life 15-20 years ago. All there is to do these days -- if I don't want to drive out to whatever crowded area is hosting fireworks -- is hunker down at home and calm the pet.
And play with baseball cards, of course -- always a perk when you don't have to go anywhere.
I've wrapped up another team binders update but there are always team-binder determinations happening in my collection.
My recent sportlots order included this 1993 Upper Deck Then & Now Darryl Strawberry insert. I've liked this particular insert for a long time and pick one up every once in awhile, with showing them off on my 1993 Upper Deck blog when the time comes now part of the plan (That won't be until 500-plus more cards have been posted, and with the way nobody pays attention to set blogs anymore, who knows if I'll ever get there).
When you update these cards on TCDB, you are adding to the totals of two different teams, but the big question is whether the holographic team goes in the team binder.
The "Dodgerness" of this card is not apparent. It's a shadowy image with no letters visible.
I tried to take a different picture -- to eliminate the pink reflection of the first photo but also to see if I could capture anything that showed something Dodger on the holographic image, but all I got was Darryl Strawberry appearing to melt in his Mets uniform. I know that some sort of angle would illustrate the Dodger-ness but so much effort.
So, for me, this will not go into my Dodgers team binders. I'll file it in the back of my 1993 Upper Deck binder with no need to get a second one.
It's a case-by-case basis with these cards that feature more than one team.
I received this 2005 Donruss Classics card not long ago from Baseball Cards Come to Life! of catcher Dioner Navarro.
The image is nothing but Yankee. But the type indicates he's a Dodger and it even lists the transaction along the side. This is all it takes for me to include this in the Dodgers binder. It may seem arbitrary, but clear evidence on the front of the card that the player is a Dodger meets the qualifications. Think all of the "Now With ..." O-Pee-Chee cards.
I came across this 1992 Ultra checklist card just the other day. I realized that I had not checked it off on TCDB even though it pops up in the Dodgers team list for the set.
Fleer liked to do these group-team checklists in the 1980s and '90s, I'm not a fan. Mostly it's because I have to put them in my team binder even though the card mentions other teams.
This is where it goes too far. I'm not including a Ranger in my Dodgers binder even though I just did with a Yankee. The team mention just doesn't stand out enough to qualify.
Super arbitrary, I know. But this makes sense to me.
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