Unique Steve Garvey items to share?

[mrmopar]

Al, There are a couple variations for those LS cards as well. Some have to do with cropping, others have to do with the location of manufacturing.

[ALR-bishop]

Curt--you are correct. I am not aware of any Garvey variants, other than the ones above. But some say made in Taiwan and others the Philippines. There are a bunch of cropping differences on the front of the Hershiser cards (plus a bull dog card variant), and some back color variants as well. There are different Eric Davis cards too. Are you aware of other Garveys ?

[mrmopar]

Now that I look at them again, I guess the Dodger variant is simply a difference in the coloring. Both were printed in Taiwan. One is darker in both the picture and in the border colors.



For the Padre card, there is a cropping variation, but it relates to the location of production as well. There is also some color variations as well.

The Philippines card is more yellow and the signature is all within the yellow part of the background and no belt is seen. The Taiwan version has the bottom loop of the "S" in the signature into the green part of the background and you can see his belt.

Just average items

[mrmopar]

Even the common stuff is fun to look at now days. Garvey has fallen far from the limelight for the most part, having once been considered a lock for the HOF and was named with the biggest players of him time. I guess he fell a bit short...

[Troy Kirk]

I don't have a picture, but my family just put together a puzzle showing lots of packages of snack cakes. One of the boxes was a Hostess box from the 1970s with a picture of a Steve Garvey baseball card on the front.

[Exhibitman]

His 1974 card is one of my favorites. Just a great composition. Excuse the crappy scan: