Staying on the topic of player collecting and Clayton Kershaw, here's a somewhat challenging exercise in player collecting that I learned from Brian of Highly Subjective and Completely Arbitrary. A year-and-half ago I wrote a post about attempting to find a card of Clayton Kershaw in every Topps flagship design, from 1951 to the present. It was my spin-off on his quest to do the same with the now-retired Joe Mauer. At the time of that post, I had compiled 38 of the Topps flagship designs bearing Kershaw's image. Since then, obviously, I've added a 2019 Topps design to my Kershaw quest. I also have placed the above card in my COMC cart because it shows him on the 1984 design and I still haven't landed one of those (gee, I wonder why, make a few 100 more insert series, Topps!!! ) But even though the '84 design isn't quite in my collection, I've still managed to add the following designs since I wrote that original post: 1953, 1958, 1970, 1976, 19...
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