Trade for a great card

Over on TCDB, I am nearly at a goal that I unintentionally discovered that I am near completing and that goal is trading with a member from each state. At the start of the year I needed seven states (plus DC) and I am down to 1 state and DC, which I hope to get in process this week or next. 

The card I'm showing off today, however, was not received from one of the missing states, but was one that I had wanted for quite some time.  

If you are familiar with the exquisite film Spaceballs, the scene where some of the guys were told to "Comb the desert" (above), then this 1971 Topps Brooks Robinson card should remind you of that scene.

So, this is now officially and forever to be known as Robinson's "Spaceballs" card. Robinson looks like he's in the Sahara or the Mojave, not on the infield of Memorial Stadium. I find this photograph to be outstanding for the lack of showing both the infield and outfield grass. It is one of several kind of funny Orioles cards. Two of the others that come to mind are Boog Powell in the lamentable 1975 set, and Mike Devereaux from twenty years later in 1995.

Powell, like me, is wondering why 1975 looks as awful and garish as it does compared to the far more fabulous set on either side of it, 1974 and 1976. Devereaux is just representing 1994 baseball and its strike. Both the Powell and the Devereaux are part of my "One example of a Topps card from each year" collection, spanning 1951 to the present.

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