Merry Christmas Eve!

 It’s Christmas Eve, we’ll it’s Christmas Eve morning anyways. I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a Merry Christmas and say thanks to a few bloggers that sent me some cards recently.

First up are these three awesome O-Pee-Chee packs from Angus over at Dawg Day Cards. Angus saw my collection of Topps pack wrappers that I am working on and figured I could use these O-Pee-Chee packs/wrappers. He couldn’t be more right! These are awesome! Living in Arizona I don’t come across O-Pee-Chee cards very often, let alone packs! I think these are the first O-Pee-Chee packs I have ever seen in person. Thank you Angus!

Next up is this 1991 Fleer white border mod parallel of Nolan Ryan. 

Gavin of Baseball Card Breakdown sent this really sweet solar modified 1991 Fleer Nolan Ryan card to me. I had read Gavin’s post about these cards the night before he arrived and so I was super excited when I saw the envelope in the mailbox from him.

It arrived with the holiday insert, which is great in and of itself! Gavin is super creative!

I am one of just four know individuals in existence who actually like the 1991 Fleer design, but I really dig the white border mod parallel as well. Thanks Gavin!

And a bubble mailer from Greg at Night Owl Cards showed up in my mailbox the same day as the envelope from Gavin. Greg sent me some recent D-Backs cards, which are always much appreciated! Thanks Greg!

Hope everyone out there has a very Merry Christmas and a great 2023!

I had no idea!

Johnny Bench recently celebrated a birthday. He turned 75 years old on December 7th. That means he was born in 1947. 

Do you know who else was born in December 1947? December 26, 1947 to be exact. 

I was made aware of this the other day and it did truly blow my mind. I think it's because I got to see Fisk play for a number of years, while Bench retired when I was just 2 years old. It's just hard for me to fathom them being born the same year, just a few weeks apart.

Even though Fisk retired 10 years after Bench, their career numbers aren't that far off. Bench began his career in 1967 and played continuously through 1983 (17 years). Fisk debuted in 1969, but did not spend any time in the majors in 1970. He would then play continuously from 1971 - 1993. (24 years) Bench played in 2,158 games compared to 2,499 games for Fisk. So even though Fisk played 7 more season than Bench, he had some years where he was limited due to injuries. 

Bench                                        Fisk

.267 career batting average    .269 career batting average

2,048 career hits                      2,356 career hits

389 career home runs              376 career home runs

1,376 career RBI                     1330 career RBI

When you look at the career numbers and take into consideration how difficult the catcher position is, both careers are extremely impressive, but I give the nod to Bench for all the he was able to accomplish in "just" 17 seasons. How about you? Bench or Fisk?

$100+ Cards in Dime Boxes

I posted about this on Twitter already and made a YouTube video as well, but thought I would post about it here as well because to me it's just too crazy not to.

I got to go to a card show the Saturday before Thanksgiving and I spent most of the time at the show digging through a bunch of dime boxes with one particular dealer, that I frequent every time I go to this particular show. There was another guy going through the boxes at the same time and I found this 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco Rated Rookie card early on and showed it to the other guy who was digging through the boxes and he immediately offered me a buck for it. I politely declined and kept digging.

The card was in a penny sleeve. After getting hime I decided it deserved a magnetic. For fun I looked it up in a couple different Beckett magazines. This particular magazine is from July 1991. Check out the price $100. I have never owned this card before so I was super happy to find it and even more so to be able to add it t my collection for just a dime.

I purchased 411 cards from the dime boxes. The dealer asked for $40 for the stack, which I gladly handed over. 

In addition to the 86 Donruss Canseco, I grabbed a bunch of Hall of Fame rookie cards that I just couldn't pass up for a dime. Guys like Randy Johnson, Jeff Bagwell and Larry Walker. Obviously Canseco isn't in the Hall of Fame. neither is this guy.

This 1990 Leaf Sammy Sosa cost me a dime. Check out the price listed in this November 1998 Beckett. $120. Crazy! I know I talked out this briefly in a previous post about the 1990 Leaf Frank Thomas card. I actually have a couple of copies of this card already, but this dime box snag will hold a special place in my heart.

I've gotten some great cards over the years in dime boxes, but these two cards probably have the highest peak price out of any cards that I've ever pulled from a dime box. What's the best card you've ever gotten from a dime box?

Black Friday 2022

It's Black Friday. I don't plan on doing much shopping. My youngest (below) has a baseball tournament this weekend. That means two games today, two games tomorrow and then the championship game on Sunday. That won't leave much time for shopping. We'll see if I'm somehow able to make it to any stores. Maybe I'll get a few things online. Best of luck to all of you that are making purchases today!

With Paul Goldschmidt Chrome cards on the forefront of collector's minds at the moment, due to the recent announcement from Topps, and it being Black Friday, I thought I'd share a couple of Black Topps Chrome Goldschmidt refractors from his days in Arizona.

What do you think Topps has in store for the Paul Goldschmidt and Aaron Judge 2022 Topps Chrome  cards they are offering store credit for at certain card shops? I have a couple of ideas, but am curious to here what your thoughts are. Let me know.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! I have much to be thankful for this year as always. I have an awesome family. I love my wife and have three amazing boys. 

On the hobby side of things I am extremely grateful that I found this 1955 Bowman Hank Aaron card. It was missing for at least 10 months. I had spent hours searching for it during that time.

I found it earlier this month. I had decided to look for it once again and moved some things around to get to the shelves where I had some 5,000 count boxes. I pulled off the top box and looked through it. Nope. I almost just put the box back and moved on, but I decided to check the box underneath it. There it was! I was so thankful!

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving season?

I'm back!

One of my hobby related goals for 2022 is to reduce the overall size of my collection. I recently met with a fellow YouTuber, Caleb of Caleb's Cards and gave him about 20,000 cards and probably around 30 empty binders. It was really cool to meet up with Caleb. He happened to be in town for a couple of days and we were able to have dinner together and hang out for a couple hours.

Even with me giving away 20,000 cards, I've still added more cards to my collection in 2022 than I have gotten rid of, so let's give away some more cards. 

For the first 5 people (US only) that comment below with who you think will win the World Series this year as well as your  favorite team and I'll send you a PWE with some cards.

Me, I'm going with the Phillies. I'm a fan of Bryce Harper and I'd love to see him win a Championship and he has been playing great this postseason along with the rest of the Phillies.  Plus, I think they will be facing the Astros and I don't think I could ever root for the Astros to win.

1954 Topps Jim "Dusty" Rhodes RC

This past Saturday I went to The Batter's Box card shop. I made it there just as the 1 PM auction was starting. I ended up getting one item in the auction; a small lot of 1970 Topps high numbers. It was just 4 cards, but I needed all 4 and I got it for $2.50 and used a comp card for $2 off, so I only spent 50 cents out of pocket for the 4 cards.

I did buy one other card at the shop though. It was this 1954 Jim Rhodes card. If Jim Rhodes doesn't sound familiar, it might be because he didn't go by Jim. He went by the nickname Dusty throughout his 7 year MLB career.

1952 was Dusty's rookie season, but he didn't get a card until 1954. Somewhat fitting because 1954 was the greatest season in his brief career. Used primarily as a pinch hitter, Dusty would play in just 82 games and only had 164 at bats. He made the most of the opportunities and batted .341 with 15 home runs and 50 RBI.  

Then came the 1954 World Series. The New York Giants would face the Cleveland Indians in the Fall Classic. Not only did the Indians win the American League pennant, but they set a league record with 111 wins. Keep in mind, they only played 154 games, so the Indians only lost 43 games during the regular season. They were heavily favored to win the series, but the Giants had other plans. 

Game 1 featured "The Catch"; and as Mays himself would describe, "The Throw". Possibly the greatest and if not the greatest, then certainly the most well-known defensive play in World Series history. "The Catch, would keep the score tied at 2 in the 8th inning. Still tied at 2, Dusty came into the game as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 10th, for future Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, and hit a walk-off home run off of future Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon. 

In Game 2 Dusty would enter the game in the 5th; again as a pinch hitter for Monte Irvin. This time Rhodes would bat against Early Wynn; another future Hall of Fame pitcher. Cleveland was up 1-0 at the time. Rhodes would single and drive in a run to tie the game. He stayed in the game and homered off Wynn in the 7th giving the Giants a 3-1 lead, which would be the final score.

Dusty entered Game 3 in the 3rd inning; again pinch hitting for Irvin and would hit a 2 run single which extended the Giants lead to 3-0. The Giants would go on to win the game 6-2, meaning that technically Rhodes had the game winning RBI back in the 3rd inning.

The Giants would go on to sweep the mighty Indians in 4 games and Rhodes was not needed in the final game as the Giants would win 7-4. 

Rhodes had just 7 plate appearances in the World Series, but he would collect 4 hits and a walk in those 7 plate appearances. 2 of the hits were home runs and he scored twice and drove in 7 runs.

On September 29, 2017 the World Series MVP award was renamed the Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award in honor of it being the 63rd anniversary of "The Catch" in the 1954 World Series. The award was around in 1954. The World Series MVP Award was first given out one year later in 1955. Willie Mays never actually won the award and he has gone on record as saying that if the award had been given out in 1954 it should have gone to Dusty Rhodes and not himself.

I'm reading a biography about Willie Mays and when I read that he would have awarded Rhodes the MVP award had it been issued, I immediately looked for his 1954 Topps card. Lots to choose from on eBay, but I thought I would check at my LCS. They actually had two copies. This one that I bought for $14.50 and another one that was $10.95. The later actually had a whiter white, but the one I bought was centered a bit better top to bottom and the corners were just a bit better, so I paid the extra.

Fun fact. Dusty's stellar performance in the '54 World Series resulted in him taking the #1 spot in the 1955 Topps set.

2022 Topps Opening Day Set

This past Saturday I went to a card shop and picked up this 2022 Topps Opening Day set. For just $4.99 I couldn't say no. Eventually I'll get more sheets and put it in a binder. I have a stack of cards and multiple set waiting on sheets as I type this. For now though, I'm okay adding this to my collection and having it sit in a box. 

Pretty sure this is my first Wander Franco card. What are your thoughts on Opening Day? Love it, hate it or just don't care?

Dime Box Digging: Tim Salmon

It's been a few weeks since my last post. While I haven't been posting, I've been buying, trading and organizing at a nice pace. Still not where I want to be as far as organizing goes, but I am making good progress.

Yesterday I had about 30 minutes at a card show. When I arrived some of the dealers had already left. I spent my time looking through some dime and other bargain boxes. I spent $15 and couldn't be happier with my purchases.

Here is a good portion of the 147 cards I took home.

I added 10 Tim Salmon cards to my collection, bringing my total Tim Salmon collection to 222 cards.

I collect Salmon because we attended the same high school. 

Offer Up Collection Purchase Recap #1

I've had fun the past couple of days going through the small Offer Up collection I picked up recently.

There was exactly one card in a top loader and only a handful of cards in penny sleeves in the entire collection. Here is the one card that was in a top loader.

I'm not even sure this card is all that deserving of a top loader, but I do collect Bryce Harper cards, so I removed it from the top loader and penny sleeve and added it to my Bryce Harper binder.

I mentioned that the older football was going to be traded to my Offer Up football/basketball guy. I reached out and already made the trade. Sorry Night Owl and Angus. I don't think there was any big names, but there was a good number of 1979, 1980 and 1981 Topps football as well as another 1000 or so more recent football cards and a few hundred 1993-94 Fleer basketball cards that I traded for these.

I know what you are thinking. More junk wax? This is true, but these are a little different and they are complete sets that eventually I will binder and enjoy. They are also sets that I don't already have, so I am happy with the trade.

Here are some other cards from the Offer Up purchase that I have been able to add to my collection from the Offer Up collection purchase this past Saturday.

I was able to add these two cards to my Topps All-Star Rookie Cup binder as the best Rookie Cup card for that year. I have these already as part of the Topps base sets, but these were able to go into my specific Rookie Cup binder.

I'm very familiar with Upper Deck MVP cards, but I wasn't familiar with this factory set. I was worried that there might be a card or tow missing, but it is 100% complete. Not only is it the base 2003 MVP set, but it contains an Update Set as well. Always happy to add complete sets to my collection!

There was a stack of about 75 1984 Donruss cards and I was able to add 6 cards to my set. There were two Diamond Kings and then these 4 that I needed. I'm down to needing just 50 cards to complete this set.

One of the other collections I traded for had a near complete set of 2000 Topps HD cards. It's a small 100 card set. I needed 10 cards. There were a few cards in this collection from this set and I needed 1 of them.

Here are a few other cards that I pulled from the boxes and will be keeping in my collection.

I probably already have this Jim Morris rookie card, but it was still a nice find. This card is usually in the $5 range.

I don't come across the Mantle Baseball Heroes cards very often and when I do they are usually a couple of bucks apiece, so it was nice to find this one.

Next up are these 1989 Holsum discs. This is a 20 card set, so I am now halfway there. The dups were of Wally Joyner and Frank Viola. I collect Wally Joyner, so that dup was put to good use.

Speaking of dups. Check out these 1989 Fleer insert sets. The funny thing is that I don't think there was actually any 1989 Fleer in the collection.

I'll probably have another post or two from this collection, but so far I think it's been worth it.

Offer Up Purchase

Last week I saw an OfferUp post that had a bunch of boxes of cards for a reasonable price. I reached out right away, but I didn't hear back. A few days later I reached out again to see if they were available. He responded that he had a bunch of people inquire, but they never followed up. I didn't see the message until the next day, but made arrangements for an early Saturday morning pickup. 

As you can see, the seller mentioned that they are mostly commons. The part that is missing says "great for completing or starting sets". So I wasn't expecting any hidden gems, but I was certainly intrigued. The newer looking boxes are what caught my eye. I've been organizing my collection recently and thought they could come in handy. Now, unless they are empty, they don't exactly do me any good, but that's okay.

I did negotiate a lower price just because the seller lived a ways away. I ended up getting everything for $30. I was comfortable at that price even with the expectation that they are mostly commons. 

There was a little more than was pictured. Not much, but the was a couple of things. I don't believe the USPS box and the 1991 Score set and one other tin with a Collector's Choice Update set were in the pictures. This is what the collection looks like in my trunk. Not a bad haul. I went through everything briefly. Basically just opened up each box to get an idea of what was inside. There were a few boxes of football cards. There was a bunch of 1979 and 1980 Topps football cards and some other junk wax football cards. There was also a bunch of 1993-94 Fleer basketball cards. These will go to my football/basketball guy that I met through OfferUp. At this point, I think of him as a friend. 

The rest was baseball. There is a bunch of 1980 Topps baseball. Enough that I will probably start that set. Right now, I am just doing 1981 - present as well as a few other vintage sets (1970, 1971, and 1973). There are several boxes of 1985 - 87 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer. The other boxes are by brand. So one box with Bowman cards from various Bowman brands and years. Another with Upper Deck. Another with Pacific cards. These are going to be perfect for my goal of having a 9 pocket page of each card se. I know that might seem like a crazy idea, because it is, but it's fun to look at each brand and how they progress year over year. This collection has a lot of brands that I know I don't have already, so that is a huge plus.

It's going to take some time to go through everything and complete organizing my collection, but it will also be a ton of fun.

1974 Topps Traded Completed

Bo, of the blog Baseball Cards Come to Life, has helped me finish off my 1974 Topps Traded set. It's a small set (44 cards) and after I picked up a bunch from a dime box at my LCS, I decided to go after the set. I turned to Twitter and the blog and got a great response. The last two cards I needed were Eddie Watt and Tommie Agee and Bo sent them to me along with this 2003 Topps Heritage card of Danny Bautista. Thanks Bo!

Contest Winner

Thank you to all who participated in my Sparky Lyle rookie card contest! I know the roughly month long contest was a bit much and I don't plan on doing anything like this again anytime soon.

I did my best to count up the comments (one per day) and then blog posts featuring Sparky Lyle (an additional 5 entries per post) and here is what I came up with. 164 total entries.

7 - The Diamond King

16 - Jafronius

46 - Matt

6 - Crocodile

23 - Bo

2 - John Sharp

1 - The Lost Collector

11 - Defgav

1 - Fuji

42 - Elliptical Man

3 - Ohio Tim

6 - Night Owl

And the winner is...Elliptical Man. Congratulations! Send me your address via email (daniel24303@gmail.com) and I'll get your prize package out to you as soon as possible. Matt, please send me your address as well.

Sparky Lyle RC contest ends today!

Happy birthday Sparky! Hope you got one of those nice birthday cakes you enjoy so much!

With that being said, today ends the roughly month long contest I have been running with a well loved 1969 Topps Sparky Lyle rookie card as the basis of the prize. Along the way I've added a few cards here and there. You can still comment today to get an entry into the contest and then tomorrow I will put all the names into a randomizer and select the winner. I appreciate all the comments and Sparky related blog posts out there (extra entries).

Here are some additional cards that will be added to the prize package. I will add a few more as well. As much as I can fit into the package.

Offer Up Trade: Collect-A-Books

I have made a couple of trades with a gentleman I met through Offer Up. I sold him my 1980-81 Topps Basketball duplicates yesterday and today we met up to do a trade. My basketball and football for his baseball. For me it was the basketball and football cards I've found since we last traded. There was a nice stack of relic cards with stars and hall of famers and a bunch of rookies of players like Anfernee Hardaway, Tim Duncan, Bo Jackson, Antoine Walker, etc. Some nice stuff, but nothing huge. Some older basketball cards, a printing plate of Matt Bonner, and a few random boxed sets. Stuff like that. Maybe about 800 cards total. 

Here is what I got in return. Two shoeboxes full of randomness. I love the randomness. I love going through it and seeing a small stack of Albert Pujols cards and then finding some 1990 Donruss Rated Rookie card. Some 1991 Pacific Nolan Ryan cards, that I already have two complete sets of. Sure, why not. 2020-22 Panini Prizm parallels. Okay. An acrylic case filled with early to mid 90's Fleer Ultra inserts. Sweet! 50 or so Topps Chrome refractors from various years. Absolutely! A completely trashed 1975 Topps Gary Carter rookie card. Awesome!

What you don't see in here because I already took it out is a package of 1991 Line Drive Collect-A-Books "cards". It was lying on top, because I actually pulled it from another boxed and added it to the trade. Good thing I did. I needed 5 of the "cards" from the box.

The rest a dups and will be added to the prize package for my ongoing contest. 

In addition to the box of 1991, there were a few from 1990, but I already had these. Again, these will be added as part of the prize.

Here is what I still need for the 1990 and 1991 Baseball Collect-A-Books sets.

1990

9 - Robin Yount

1991 

3 - Nolan Ryan

5 - Bob Welch

13 -Jose Canseco

14 - Cecil Fielder

15 - Ryne Sandberg

20 - Mark Grace

28 - George Brett

30 - Matt Williams

31 - Barry Larkin

32 - Dave Stewart

33 - Dave Justice

34 - Harmon Killebrew

Feels like the Collect-A-Books were around for a lot more than just two years, but it's probably because they had them for multiple sports. Also, I don't think they sold all that well, or maybe there were just a gazillion of them because I feel like you could find them at discount stores for many years.

Ryan Roberts Super Collection Update: 2013 Topps Update Magenta Printing Plate

I don't know exactly how to put this in words, but I like to think that I have the largest collection of Ryan Roberts cards on the planet. There is probably someone out there with more Ryan Roberts cards than I have because they have 200 copies of one card, but I'm pretty sure I have the most unique Ryan Roberts cards. The Trading Card Database website shows him only having 138 total cards. I have 87 of the 138. I know that's only 63%, but out of the 138 total cards, 43 of those are 1/1, so there are only 95 non 1/1 Ryan Roberts cards. Looks like there are only 13 Ryan Roberts cards listed on Trading Card Database that I don't have and even some of those are serial numbered to 30 or less.

Ryan Roberts played in 518 games over a period of 9 seasons between 2006 and 2014. He played in 17 games for the Toronto Blue Jays (2006-07), 1 game with the Texas Rangers (2008), 372 games with the Arizona Diamondbacks (2009-12), 120 games with the Tampa Bay Rays (2012-13) and 8 games with the Red Sox (2014). 

They say that time goes faster, the older you get and I tend to agree. I can't believe it's been 9 years since Ryan Roberts last played a major league game. With that being said, it has been a while since I've been able to add a new Ryan Roberts card to my collection. Probably not 9 years, but it has to have been a few years at least since I've been able to acquire a new item for my Ryan Roberts collection.

This 2013 Topps Update magenta printing plate popped up on eBay a week or so ago and I grabbed it. I prefer his Diamondbacks stuff, but he just doesn't have a ton of cards, so I collect it all.

I already have the yellow printing plate for this card, so I just need two more and I could start printing it myself. This is my 13th Ryan Roberts printing plate.

1990 Leaf

I went to a card show this past Saturday. It was a bit of a dud, but I did have a unique experience that I will share in a later post. After the card show I went to The Batter's Box card shop and looked around for a while before I found anything. I was about to check out when one of the dealer that has a case there came in. He always has hand collated sets and a few other cards priced affordably, so I decided to wait to see what he added to his case.

I went over and struck up a conversation with him while he added items to his case. He put in a box with a 1990 Leaf set for $24.99. I recently picked up the Frank Thomas rookie card and posted about it here, but I've always wanted the entire set. It was the first modern Leaf baseball card set and was a premium set at that. I liken it to 1989 Upper Deck and 1991 Stadium Club.

$24.99 for the set. Hmmm. He ran out of space and couldn't put everything in his case, but I asked to see what else he had. He pulled out another box labeled 1990 Leaf with a $9.99 price tag. 

He told me the reason it was only $9.99 is because the Frank Thomas was damaged and it didn't have the complete puzzle. I already have the Thomas and I already have the puzzle, so I bought this one.

I already put it in sheets. Turns out is was actually missing one card; a common, #208 - Johnny Ray. I'll have to see if I happen to already have it. If someone out there has this handy and would like to trade, let me know.

The Frank Thomas is damaged. It has an indent, but it still works for me in the binder. The Sammy Sosa, Larry Walker and Ken Griffey Jr. are in good shape. I'm very happy to add this set to my collection for $10!

1974 Topps Traded from Twitter

I've had some recent success on Twitter getting some cards I need to get the 44 1974 Topps Traded cards.

I got these 4 in the mail recently from someone on Twitter. He had sent me a couple about a week before and I had someone else from Twitter send me a couple as well.

I am down to just needing 2 cards. 

If you happen to have #534 Eddie Watt and/or #630T Tommie Agee, and would be willing to trade, let me know. Thanks!

Dodger Stadium

On July 5th we went to the Dodgers vs Rockies game. This was my first time at Dodger Stadium. Never having been before I wanted to get there early to walk around. The game started at 7:10 pm and we left our hotel around 4:45 pm and got to the stadium around 5:30 pm. I bought a parking pass ahead of time, so we parked fairly close to the centerfield entrance, which I think is the main entrance. 

It happened to be Chris Taylor bobblehead night, so it was busy. When I told my boys it was Chris Taylor bobblehead night, my middle son mentioned that he liked Chris Taylor because he plays with him on The Show video game. There were 5 of us and we all got one. Almost immediately we were approached about selling our bobbleheads. During the night we were asked 5 different times about selling our bobbleheads. We ended up selling 3. We kept one for my middle son and then I kept one for a friend of mine the is a big Dodgers fan.

We got to the Stadium about an hour and a half before the game started, but I wish we would have gotten there earlier. Never having been there before I wanted to explore.

Here is the Jackie Robinson statue.

The Sandy Koufax statue was unveiled just last month.

We had to get a picture with the giant Tommy Lasorda bobblehead, even though my kids didn't know who he was.

With the All-Star game at Dodger Stadium later this month, there was a lot of signage up throughout the park.

I've heard about Dodger Dogs for decades. I was excited to try one.

There were some Topps baseball cards pictured throughout the park.

There was a display of Gold Gloves. Not sure if it was every one won by a Dodger, but there was a lot. Here is a picture of one of them won by first baseman Wes Parker. I've written several posts about Wes Parker and how great a fielder he was.

Here are some more of the Gold Gloves.

This Jackie Robinson display was massive.  

There was a room with a ton of amazing artwork; much of it signed, for sale.

Next we went up to the second level right behind home plate and headed towards right field. My point being, we only saw half. I wonder what we missed.

These are original lockers from Dodger Stadium.

I took a close up of the Exhibit Postcard dispenser. I had never seen one before.

The home plate on the left is the home plate from Ebbets Field that was removed after he final game there in 1957.

Next we went up to the third level where our seats were.

This was the view from our seats. We watched for a few innings and then went and got some food.

We got Dodger Dogs, BBQ beef nachos in helmets, tacos, and later we got twisted taters. I have to say that I was severely underwhelmed by all of the food. There really wasn't anything different or special about the Dodger Dogs. The BBQ sauce on the nachos wasn't horrible, but it made something already messy, incredibly messy. My wife got the tacos and she couldn't even finish them. She said the tortilla and the contents were cold. The twisted taters were okay, but dry.

I was impressed by the attention to detail throughout the stadium, including the stools.

After eating we went back and finished watching the game. The Rockies took an early 1-0 lead and later Kris Bryant hit his first homer as a Rockies player, but Max Muncy and Mookie Betts homered for the home team and the Dodgers ended up beating the Rockies 5-2. 

Dodger Stadium was massive! I could have spent several more hours there, just roaming around and exploring. I'll have to go back. Have you been to Dodger Stadium? What did I miss seeing?