2015 Topps Chrome - The Dodger Autograph Cards

Below is a final glance at the 2015 Topps Chrome Baseball card set.  This time I look at many of the Dodger autograph cards that are available.  Unfortunately, I have yet to see any of the "triple autograph" cards in the set, so I'll update that when they do surface.  In the meantime, check out everything else below.  Go here to check out all of my past post on this set.

As you can see there are two Dodger rookie cards available as a part of Topps rookie autograph set: Joc Pederson and Yimi Garcia.  I have included two photos for each player: the not normal base auto'd card on the left and an numbered parallel on the right.  The Pederson "purple refractor" below is numbered to /250 copies, and the Garcia "blue refractor" is numbered to /150 copies.

Of note, it's nice that Topps decided to use a brand new photo for the Joc Pederson autograph card; whereas, the Yimi Garcia card uses the same pic found in the base set.

Autographed Rookie Cards

#AR-JPN Joc Pederson

Blog Kiosk: 8/21/2015 - Dodger Links - McCarthy, Puig and Tommy Lasorda

Even at the age of 87 Tommy Lasorda sure does get around.  A couple of days ago he was invited to the Dallas Cowboys preseason workout, and even gave a Lasorda-like pep talk to the players.  Via Brandon George at the CowboysBlog:

“When I talk to them, I don’t lollipop them. I get on them good. No sir, if you want me to talk to the team they’re going to hear from me,” Lasorda said. “I said, ‘You guys from this date until next year, I will probably speak to a million people. If you’re not in the Super Bowl, I’m going to tell a million people how lousy you guys are.’”

Awesome!

Photo above via @SportsDayDFW on twitter.  Below are more links to check out:

• Brandon McCarthy can write too.  He pens a piece for ESPN, "Guest columnist Brandon McCarthy: Zack Greinke knew in spring training he'd be on par with Clayton Kershaw this season."

Zack's statement helped me and his other new teammates realize exactly what kind of guy he is. Small talk doesn’t interest him and he chooses his words very carefully. He doesn’t say anything he doesn’t mean. He’s not overly positive or cocky. Rather, he’s very down to earth, and fully self-aware -- and he is as quick to critique himself as he is to realize when he’s executed something to perfection. Those who don’t take the time to get to know him miss just how much he brings to the table when he talks. He’s realistic, measured and unflinchingly honest.

• Via Kevin Ruprecht at Beyond the Boxscore, "Let's watch Clayton Kershaw make hitters look silly."
• Via Owen Watson at FanGraphs, "The Dodgers Can’t Afford Their Bullpen Problem."
• AM570 Sports shares a whole bunch of pics from Howie Kendrick's recent appearance at a Nissan dealership, here.
• Via Harold Uhlman at Think Blue LA, "Dodgers put 4th-round draft pick Willie Calhoun on fast track." 

“His stats are impressive … the most impressive thing to me is his ability to not only recognize pitches in the strike zone but to separate pitches that are “attack” pitches and those that are “defensive” pitches,” Cougill said via email. “So many hitters work on developing the ability to recognize ball and strike but commit to strikes that they can’t attack.”

• Via Mark Saxon at ESPN, "Dodgers' Yasiel Puig hoping he can prove his critics wrong."

"You always have to go through these difficulties, but the people who are next to me trust me and support me," Puig said in Spanish.

• I could've said it better myself, via a tweet from Brett Anderson:

The psycho Duggar family...the gift that keeps on giving.

— Brett Anderson (@BrettAnderson35) August 20, 2015

• Via Shawn Anderson at the Hall of Very Good, "Speaking of Baseball-Related Movie Goofs."  He passes along other mistakes in Baseball movies.

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