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Not just baseball players appear on baseball cards. Sometimes Presidents make an appearance or an announcer or a celebrity. Topps First Pitch inserts from 2015 through 2017 brought all sorts of non-ballplayer people onto their cards from athletes from other sports, musicians, tv personalities, politicians and real life heroes to everyday people. For today's oddball post, I dug through my collection and found nine cards of celebrities to feature.

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1980 Pacific Legends #28 Chuck Connors (Anyone who watched tv in the early '60s knows Chuck Connors from starring in The Rifleman. Connors had a 40-year film and television career, but before all that, he briefly played in the MLB for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. He was such a gifted athlete that before he played in the MLB, he played a season with the Boston Celtics in the NBA and in 1946 was credited as being the first professional basketball player to shatter a backboard.)
1988 Pacific Eight Men Out #34 George Buck Weaver (John Cusack's film career is approaching the 40-year mark and he has starred in numerous films such as Sixteen Candles, The Grifters, Say Anything and High Fidelity. In 1988 he co-starred in Eight Men Out, a film about the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal and this card is from Pacific's set commemorating that film. John portrayed Sox third baseman Buck Weaver.)
1991 Legends Sports Memorabilia #NNO Kevin Costner (Costner also has a 40-year film career and holds the distinction of starring in three baseball movies including my favorite, Bull Durham as well as Field of Dreams and For Love of the Game. This card, cut from a magazine, shows him hanging out on the field while working out with the Texas Rangers back around 1991.)

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1991 Truth or Dare #NNO Jose Canseco/Madonna (Canseco claims that the Material Girl tried to romance him in 1991 and wanted to marry him and have a child with him even though he was married at the time. This unlicensed card is titled after Madonna's book and obviously features both of them.)
1992 Topps Magazine #77 John Goodman/As Babe Ruth (Another actor who's been at it for nearly 40 years is John Goodman. One of his first tv appearances was in a commercial for Skin Bracer where he slapped himself in the face and said, "Thanks, I needed that." He rose to fame on the Roseanne show and starred in many movies including The Flintstones, The Big Lebowski and another of my favorite films, Raising Arizona. In 1992 he portrayed Babe Ruth in The Babe and that is what this card commemorates. It was cut from the pages of a Topps Magazine.)
1992 Upper Deck #SP4 F.Thomas/T.Selleck (Tom Selleck broke into television with a starring role in Magnum P.I. back in 1980 and has been acting ever since, currently in the CBS drama Blue Bloods. Some of his more popular movies are Quigley Down Under, Three Men and a Baby and 1992's Mr. Baseball about an aging ballplayer sent to play in Japan. This short-printed card features Tom working out with Frank Thomas, in a Yankees uniform no less, who had a cameo in the film.)

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2008 TRISTAR PROjections Reflectives #400 Billy Crystal (Comedic actor and lifelong Yankees fan, Billy Crystal, rose to prominence in the tv show Soap and then on Saturday Night Live before branching out into movies such as The Princess Bride, Throw Momma from the Train, City Slickers and When Harry Met Sally. In 2008 Billy was signed to a one-day Minor League Baseball contract with an invitation to spring training which led to one at bat as a designated hitter in which he struck out on a full count.)
2014 Topps Archives Major League #MLCRD Roger Dorn/Corbin Bernson (Corbin Bernson was primarily known for his role on L.A. Law when he got the role of Roger Dorn in the movie Major League. This is from a Topps insert set honoring the 25th anniversary of that film.)
2016 Topps Update First Pitch #FP6 Aubrey Plaza (I could have easily filled this post with Topps First Pitch cards but will just show this one of comedic actress Aubrey Plaza known for her role on Parks and Recreation. She was named after a song by the band Bread and here she is on the day she threw out the first pitch at a Dodgers game looking playful with a red, white and blue star design emanating from her left eye.)