Cards I don't have

Hi. I was futzing around the other day and went down a rabbit hole of looking at cards. In particular, in 2004 Topps Gold and 2025 Stadium Club. 

Here are two Stadium Club cards, of the Lime Green parallel variety. What struck me about these are the fact that Alcantara is holding a pocket knife. Why does he have a pocket knife? It looks like one, at least, to me.  And this Yelich card is his almost wardrobe malfunction card. 

I don't own these and don't want to; but in general as I was browsing the set again I was reminded about how unremarkable the majority of it is, and again felt the snub of not seeing Cal Raleigh in favor of, in nor particular order, Zach Neto, Jon Berti, and Adolis Garcia. And don't even get me started on the veterans. 

But it wasn't all ridiculous. There is the occasional sublime card:

And then there was 2004 Topps. Gold specifically. As I was looking at this set I noticed, in that second card, Pokey Reese. I know of Reese mostly from his time as a Red Sox player in 2004 as I went to a lot of games that as I was living in Boston. And he got his ring. It was the last year Reese was in the Major Leagues. But seeing this card, with him as a Pirates player in 2003, I went to the Pirates team cards for 2004 and was not remotely surprised to see that he didn't have a card. Same thing here with Abraham Nunez.  He also doesn't have a 2004 Topps card. Reese played in 30-some-odd games in 2003; but Nunez appeared in 118. 

 

And so this got me wondering: how many times has a player appeared "in cameo" on a card but not been otherwise represented with their own solo card in a Topps set, base or traded? 

This is probably an impossible task; but it would be almost kind of doable if places like TCDb allowed tags or some other way to identify and acknowledge cameoed players. 

I miss the Manager card, and I think that the 2004 Topps Lou Pinella is an all-timer.

The outline at the bottom right is Epic.

Thanks for stopping by!