Showing posts with label Don Drysdale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don Drysdale. Show all posts

Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Last Innocents

I finished reading The Last Innocents by Michael Leahy last week and I thoroughly enjoyed it, even if it was about the Dodgers.

Truth be told, I love anything to do with the history of baseball and I was a Dodgers fan before the D-Backs arrived in 1998, so this book was right up my alley.

While I was already somewhat familiar with the Koufax and Drysdale led Dodgers of the 1960's I learned a lot about other Dodgers players from that decade including Maury Wills and his relationship with actress Doris Day and the struggles that haunted Wes Parker during his childhood and remained well into his playing career and beyond. I highly recommend this book to any baseball fan.


I'm pretty sure I don't have any Wes Parker cards in my collection and that needs to change. I have a couple of Koufax cards from his playing days and I have a Drysdale RC, so I thought this would be a good time to show them off on the blog.






Friday, November 18, 2011

eBay Pick-Up - Don Drysdale RC

I picked up this 1957 Topps Don Drysdale Rookie Card on eBay and it arrived today. It's a PSA 2, which is why I was able to afford it. Even with it being graded at a 2, I think that it's in pretty good shape for being over 50 years old. With older cards I don't mind if they are not in perfect shape. I might try to see which other Hall of Fame rookie cards from the 50's I can pick up for around $25.