Donruss '91 - A that's-how-I-like-my-catchers saga

I could only find this card of Skinner.

And this is how I like my catchers.

Donruss '91 - A doing-something-that-is-not-playing saga

Warming-up or just posing for the photo. Those are good too.

And I know this should be about doing other things but playing, and Tim Jones is playing, but the face he's making looks more like he's running for the WC like he cannot hold on!

Donruss '91 - A defending saga

I know infielders cards with them defending are mainly not that exciting, but is also part of the game. And I'd like to see more of that.

Of course that some of the best cards we also get from them. Those diving, throwing-myself-at-base-like-there-is-no-tomorrow cards are pretty awesome! It seems Donruss didn't get those.

Donruss '91 - A pitching saga

I know I have more pitching cards, I just have to find them...somewhere.

Pitchers always look like rubber men!

Eichhorn seems like will eventually fall because...physics.

Of course I would have to end with Mark Portugal.

Donruss '91 - A batting saga

Because I love to admire the way a players bat.

You have for all likes and dislikes.

'87 Diamond Kings

I've started a binder just for my Diamond Kings cards.

I confess that at first I looked at these insert cards with not that good appreciation. But thank goodness we sometimes get to some cards and start seeing them in a complete new light!

I like black borders and in '87 Donruss did a fair good job with it. And the DK cards are looking great! Even more than the base cards.

I know that they are not that centered (Just look at the Joyner one...) but wax era is that. And much more!

Other think that made me start liking these cards is the card back with so much trivia! I'm more into trivia info than stats.

Simply because they look good - woman perspective wanna be

I'm just posting this Musselman card because he looks good.

Sometimes I simply like to play gily girl and look at my cards from a narrow woman perspective and imagine if I were a teen (just for the sake of my adulthood) which players would make me go yaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!

I think Musselman would make me look a lot to his card and his games...

But yet he's not quite there to fully apply to my Woman Perspective category. But almost.

Lets get physical

In the middle of it baseball is a contact game.

At least if you're playing as catcher and you have to defend home plate with your life!

If I were a man I wouldn't be that light face like Bob Geren is with a player coming that way...but it's just me that I'm a woman talking about baseball...

When the stands stand out

I like cards where you can see the stadium and specially the stands.

It gives you an idea of being surrounded by the life you get in a ball game.

It gives you more the feeling of being in the game.

(There are those times when the stands are empty but you can always picture them full of people.)

There are some cards you don't expect to find

I know this is not a first and that it's not that uncommon to see a card with a pitcher batting.

But there are some pitchers I can picture at the plate. The first time I noticed Dan Haren was was not because he was pitching but he was batting. And he was a pretty good pitch batting!

But then there are other pitchers I usually don't picture at the plate.

Fernando Valenzuela is one of them. So it's quite nice to have this card of him bunting.

And as for what I've read in the net he actually had a season with batting average over .300!

Joe Niekro - 1988 Donruss

In a past post I showed a terrific card of Phil and Joe Niekro.

This time is just Joe alone by himself.

I still have to find a Phil Niekro '88 Donruss card. Must add it to my want list (eventually).

Here little brother Joe is stated in his wiki page as "one of the most successful knuckleball pitchers of all time".

For me pitching a fastball in a straight direction is tough enough trying for a  knuckleball is like a 'kind of magic'.