With the arrival of my 2025 program in at present’s mail, I now have a “full” set of World Sequence applications from all 9 Dodger championships, their shared title in 1890 however.
I say “full” in quotes due to one thing I discovered in constructing this assortment. For a few years, the Fall Traditional had two totally different applications. In some instances, the variations have been fairly refined, as was the case in 1955 the place this system on the left was bought at Ebbets Subject and the one on the precise was bought at Yankee Stadium.
Different instances, the distinction was extra pronounced reminiscent of in 1959.
And in some instances, one program is fairly ho hum whereas the opposite is an absolute masterpiece of the style.
Within the case of the Dodgers then, a “grasp set” would require greater than 9 applications. Nonetheless, it could not require 18. From what I can inform, the switchover to a single Fall Traditional program per yr occurred in 1974, a minimum of so far as covers are involved.
That very same yr, 1974, after all marked a Dodgers World Sequence defeat, so you might marvel if I’m gathering these as nicely. Whereas I do have the 1974 and 1978 applications, the reply isn’t any, and never simply because I’m a sore loser. I simply don’t have a funds for World Sequence applications from 1916 and 1920, a lot much less six extra from the Forties and 50s.
What I’d add is a terrific set I simply found at present, although these of you actively gathering in 2004 could nicely acknowledge it as one of many many insert sets in packs that yr. The 2004 Topps Fall Traditional Covers set has 99 playing cards, one for every World Sequence from 1903 to 2003. (These so inclined can quiz themselves on why there are solely 99 playing cards on this 101-year span.)
Right here is the cardboard for 1919, notable in that Topps in any other case produced little or no cardboard referring to the Black Sox scandal.
The cardboard again, as you would possibly anticipate, gives a abstract of the Sequence. There is no such thing as a point out of the betting scandal, although the Sequence is described as controversial.
Moreover giving me an opportunity to admire a century’s price of World Sequence covers, the set gives a really inexpensive choice for the in any other case value prohibitive applications talked about earlier. For the haters on the market, here’s a fast slide present of each Dodgers World Sequence loss included within the set.
In an ideal world, this set wouldn’t solely embrace each variations of every pre-1974 cowl but additionally proceed in perpetuity. Even higher, a QR code on the again would possibly result in a website the place one might learn your complete program cowl to cowl. Both means, the set gives a lovely and really inexpensive means for followers* to gather the historical past of their favourite group, in good instances and in dangerous.
* Astros, Expos, Mariners, Pilots, Nationals, Rangers, Rays, and Rockies followers not included.
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