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#61 Nick Markakis

2014 Topps

#61 Nick Markakis

There were lots of the usual stuff with no real standouts. So, I picked one of my favs! This is also appropriate because the Orioles are currently 6 games ahead in the AL East! There were lots of quality shots, including more than one of each of the following...
dugout shots such as #224 Mike Saunders; home plate celebrations such as #637 Freddy Glavis; strking the pose such as #97 Alex Gordon; throwback unis such as #183 Darwin Barney; running catches such as #212 Jason Heyward; caught stealing such as #559 Asdrubal Cabrera; robbing a home run such as #357 Lorenzo Cain; diving catches such as #59 Nate Schierholtz; throwing catchers such as #287 Miguel Montero; straining pitchers such as #543 Bud Norris; infield flips such as #133 Xander Bogaerts; turning 2 such as #172 Rickie Weeks; signing autos such as #194 Joel Hanrahan; getting doused such as #221 Brian Dozier; plays at the plate such as #225 Brian McCann; yelling such as #367 Brian Wilson (I didn't do that on purpose! all those "Brian"'s just happened to be together!); classic power swings such as #475 David Ortiz; big slides at home such as #1 Mike Trout;

There were some funny unique shots such as...
#8 Coco Crisp with big hair, #412 Hunter Pence with big eyes, #273 Mark Derosa catching the wrong ball, and clever product placement on #619 Chris Johnson.

If it were a "regular" card, #321 Mariano Rivera "Yankees Legend Retires", likely would have been the pick. This is a great shot of Jeter and Petit on the mound "getting" Mariano in his last game.

Finally, Topps inserted actual old cards into some packs. I got 8 of them...6 from the '70's, 1 from the '60's and this 1959 #36 Hank aguirre. Kind of fun pulling a card from my birth year from a pack.