Dodgers Blog Kiosk: 12/18/2012

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• The 1983 Fleer Project shares a recently received autographed card from former Dodgers pitcher Terry Forster.
• Night Owl Cards continues with his Best Dodgers Card Ever Made feature with #11 to 20.
• Ken Rosenthal at Fox Sports notes that Andre Ethier's name has been discussed in recent trade talk.

The Dodgers have “zero intention” of trading Ethier, the official said, but will listen to offers. The discussions, to this point, have failed to progress.

• Patrick Rishe at Forbes notes that the Dodgers believe that asset acquisition will bolster value.

Guggenheim is going big in the hopes of landing a lucrative television home for the Dodgers as part of what may become the most impressive stable of sports and entertainment properties the sports industry has ever seen.

• Check out the drawing created by a son of Dale Murphy in support of his inclusion into the Hall of Fame.
• Panini released some preview pics from their 2012 National Treasures Baseball card set.  See them here.  Unfortunately, no Dodgers previews are provided, but there was this incredible look Gwynn autographed card below.

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2012 Leaf Memories Baseball - Dodgers Cards - Piazza, Lasorda, Valenzuela, Puig and Seager

Leaf has gone Baseball card crazy the past several weeks.  Since the end of the 2012 Baseball season they have released a Metal Baseball Draft set and Valiant Baseball Draft set.  Now, they release probably their best set this year.  Just out in stores is 2012 Leaf Memories Baseball.  See a complete checklist here.

This set takes a look back at a once loved and revered Baseball card set- 1990 Leaf.  It uses the exact same design while also including foil stamped buyback cards from the original 1990 set.  Heck, they even put together a 70 player checklist of autographed buyback cards that were inserted into packs.  BTW, this is a very limited product.  Only 155 (10-box) cases were produced.  The base cards to the new set are numbered to only 99, the autographed base cards are numbered to 25, and the buybacks are numbered to 20  (with a couple of limited parallels added on).

Check out the Dodgers base cards below.  Every base card has a companion autographed version available.  Click on any pic to embiggen.

#544 Corey Seager / #AU-CS1 Corey Seager

#552 Yasiel Puig / #AU-YP1 Yasiel Puig

#567 Mike Piazza / #AU-MP1 Mike Piazza

#575 Tommy Lasorda/ #AU-TL1 Tommy Lasorda

Fernando Valenzuela is the only Dodger in the autographed buyback checklist.  As you can see, it has been embossed with silver foil and is numbered to only 34 copies- this corresponds to his uniform number.

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