Dodger lot part II: 1990 Target cards

It seems that in the late 80s and early 90s, several teams put out sets with a card of every player to play for the team. The Wiz put them out for the Yankees and Mets; the Orioles had one sponsored by a gas station. And Target put one out for the Dodgers in 1990 to celebrate the team's 100th anniversary. I never had any of these before, so it was cool to get a whole lot of them here. There were nine sheets with 15 players each - 135 cards total.

Lots of interesting photos and of course lots of obscure players. Worth clicking on the photos to zoom in to see them better.

Check out Jesse Petty, the Silver Fox, with a uniform commemorating the 50th anniversary of the National League.

Nice juxtaposition of old-style and new-style ballparks with Gallivan and Werhas next to each other.

It seems like every card of Claude Osteen has him in the same pose, at the end of his follow-through.

LA Coliseum sighting on Chuck Churn's card.

Love how you can go from 19th century players in suit and tie right up to today's styles (1980s).

For some of the players, I guess they couldn't get a Dodgers photo. In this sheet I see Angels, Braves, whatever Fritz Ostermueller is wearing with a baseball on it . . .

Augie Galan laying on the ground with a pencil and notebook is my favorite card in the set.

Joe Simpson played in four seasons for the Dodgers in the 1970s and they couldn't find a Dodger photo for him?

Cannonball Crane, what a great name.

In case you were wondering, yes I did perforate these after taking the photos.

Now it is a lot of fun getting obscure players, everyone from Bobby Reis to Bernie Neis. But there was a lot of star power here as well. This was only 135 cards out of 887, just 15% of the men who played for the Dodgers in their first 100 years. While there was no Koufax or Campanella, there were a lot of big stars here - Robinson, Reese, Snider, Drysdale, Sutton.

Just for fun I made a lineup of the best Dodgers in this lot, and the best Dodgers not in this lot (pre-1990, obviously). Considering I only had 15% of Dodgers to work with, I think my team stacks up pretty well.

I started off with the definitive all-time Dodgers team, from The Collector. With just 15 percent of the pre-1990 Dodgers, I had his manager (Alston), five members of the starting lineup (Robinson, Herman, Snider, Guerrero, Reese) and three starting pitchers (Drysdale, Sutton, Rucker). No bench players or relievers, an indication of how top-heavy my group was. I used the Dodgers all-time WAR leaders to fill out the rest.

MY GUYS

1B: Jake Daubert

2B: Jackie Robinson

3B: Pedro Guerrero

SS: Pee Wee Reese

OF: Duke Snider, Willie Davis, Augie Galan

C: Mike Scioscia

P: Don Drysdale

THE OTHER GUYS

1B: Gil Hodges

2B: Davey Lopes

3B: Ron Cey

SS: Bill Russell

OF:Zack Wheat, Carl Furillo, Dixie Walker

C: Roy Campanella

P: Sandy Koufax

If my guys can avoid getting no-hit by Koufax, I think they'd put up a real fight. Pretty good considering they are representing only 15% of the franchise, with the other guys representing 85%.