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mrmopar
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I have always been interested in the obscure items, especially those that show familiar players in unfamiliar uniforms. Sometimes it is easy to find photos, especially with Topps vault negatives and such, but there was not always a card or product that featured a certain player in a certain short lived uniform. I may have even started a similarly themed thread a while back when I shared an Omar Vizquel autograph card that caught my eye because it showed him as a Blue Jay. I didn't even know he had made a stop there, but he ended his career there in fact! In the day and age of free agency, it is probably harder now to see someone stay their whole career with a single team, or even a couple, but it has always been a pretty special feat to complete a long career with a single team as only a few all time greats would come to mind in a discussion like this, usually most notable are Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Al Kaline and Brooks Robinson. Of course there are others, often with slightly shorter careers (Gehrig, DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, etc), but so many players have made stops elsewhere in their time...some common, some not so common.
I will always gravitate to the Dodgers in a case like this, but other teams will often capture my fancy too. I love to see first generation mariner uniforms on people like Vada Pinson, Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills, etc. I could come up with a lot of these, however, this is a card I saw when 2018 Archives came out and knew I had to have and the one that got me thinking about this subject again. It's kind of a weird shot, but it is clearly a Thome Dodger autograph, of which he seems to have very few or they are all locked up in collections by now. On his way to the Hall of Fame, via a variety of teams, Thome made a 17 game stop in LA in 2009 and it was not captured on a lot of cards given how many he has overall. Autographed versions are even tougher.
Share one that stands out for you. Let's try to keep it going for a while and please try to offer a photo and not just a list of names with unique teams they briefly appeared with that would shock everyone except the most die hard fans of the game.
I will always gravitate to the Dodgers in a case like this, but other teams will often capture my fancy too. I love to see first generation mariner uniforms on people like Vada Pinson, Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills, etc. I could come up with a lot of these, however, this is a card I saw when 2018 Archives came out and knew I had to have and the one that got me thinking about this subject again. It's kind of a weird shot, but it is clearly a Thome Dodger autograph, of which he seems to have very few or they are all locked up in collections by now. On his way to the Hall of Fame, via a variety of teams, Thome made a 17 game stop in LA in 2009 and it was not captured on a lot of cards given how many he has overall. Autographed versions are even tougher.
Share one that stands out for you. Let's try to keep it going for a while and please try to offer a photo and not just a list of names with unique teams they briefly appeared with that would shock everyone except the most die hard fans of the game.