A Fielding card like this one is livened up immensely by a live action baseball, but the baseball is not cooperating with the photographer.
But that's OK. The uniform hooks us up with the team name and then the card shows off the logo. Beer comes from grain, you know. In Wisconsin. Exciting stuff.
I notice details on Brewers cards a little more than most teams; I think a pro photographer working at Miller Park often sets up somewhere behind Third Base, as this is not the only Brewers card one can find showing their First Baseman awaiting an incoming throw.
And Ishikawa sure likes his armbands.
I notice details on Brewers cards a little more than most teams; I think a pro photographer working at Miller Park often sets up somewhere behind Third Base, as this is not the only Brewers card one can find showing their First Baseman awaiting an incoming throw.
And Ishikawa sure likes his armbands.
Uniform Hero? This card shows off it's card # on the front not once, but twice. That might be unique in the set. I will be watching, I guess.
Although the uniform<>card # linkage has to inevitably run out of steam as the card #s start to climb, this card is still a nice selection, due to all those Pitchers. As we shall see, they like the higher uniform #s quite a bit more than the positional players do.
Where’d the egg hatch? Ishikawa was drafted by the Giants in the 21st round of the 2002 draft.
How about the migrations? He would then debut with them in 2006. I will let the Topps card back writer pick up the story from there...
Don’t flip over real Turtles.
Ishikawa would play only 7 Games in the year this card appeared; the Brewers had released him in November, 2012. Those 7 games were with the Orioles and the Yankees.
After 2013 he put the journey in journeyman, with 2 contracts with the White Sox despite never appearing in an MLB game for them, and then 2 stops in Pittsburgh and also back in San Francisco, also twice.
His most famous MLB moment is a Walk-Off Home Run to clinch the 2014 NLCS for the Giants. It is celebrated on cardboard at least twice.
In 2016 he made one final (unsuccessful) try at reaching the majors once again, naturally once again with the San Francisco Giants.
Can the Turtle Catch the Rabbit?
CAREER CHASE: With 199 hits, Ishikawa is 4,057 away from the all-time record of 4,256.
The Hit King, nearly forgotten in this card back feature, after all those Pitchers. At least Topps is getting the math right now.
Travis Ishikawa finished his Major League career with 241 Hits.
Subspecies? And now you know the basic story of Travis Ishikawa, and now you won't be surprised that there are no other variants of this card.
Bling That Shell This spot sat empty in my All-Parallel project for a long time. It was obvious to me that this would be an easy card to acquire, in any color I wished. Finally, I pulled the trigger and bought a copy of a parallel color I particularly like for a baseball card, because every time I see it, I think of bubble gum:
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