With
Alex Rodriguez set to play his final game next Friday (the day
I launch my brand-new poetry book!), I will soon know a grand total of zero baseball players by name. Ok, that may not be true because I know hometown boy
Russell Martin plays for the
Toronto Blue Jays, but because they do not exist to me, neither does he at the moment, so there's that.
Still,
Alfonso Soriano rang a bell to me, and
Vladimir Guerrero was the last great member of the
Montréal Expos, though I am pretty much unaware of anything he achieved elsewhere apart from his MVP title in his first year with the
Anaheim Angels.
Both players are multiple Silver Slugger Award winners and All-Stars, and both were outfielders.
And both graced card #191 of
Upper Deck's
2009 Ballpark collection (and
Dual Swatch Memorabilia and
Stat Kings sub-sets), which I obtained in a multi-sport repack, numbered 211/400:
Both swatches are game-used, and Soriano's is of the two-coloured variety, with a blue stripe complementing the predominant white. I don't really do two-player cards, so this one's up for trade.
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