OK, I'm feeling a little better about the Dodgers' off-season doings than yesterday. Sure, Dee Gordon's gone, but that whole love affair was probably going to end badly anyway. But I'm not writing about trade stuff today, I'm sure you're all as worn out by that as I am. Instead, I'm going to write about anachronisms. Yep, anachronisms. Why not? Nobody reads this thing in December anyway. An anachronism, as I'm sure you were taught in high school, is a chronological placing of a person, object, event or custom incorrectly within a depicted time period. Anachronisms pop up most often in literature and art. And these days, it's probably most often referenced in movies or video games. Spotting an electronic watch in a movie about the Civil War. Stuff like that. There are anachronisms in baseball cards, too. The first one I discovered was this 1982 Donruss card that I wrote about a few years ago that shows Carl Yastrzemski wearing a Red Sox un
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