How Los Angeles Angels Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

23 of the 23 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Born as the Los Angeles Angels Gene Autry's expansion club joins the American League
Anaheim Stadium opens The team moves into 'The Big A' and becomes the California Angels
Alex Johnson's batting title The outfielder edges Carl Yastrzemski for the club's first hitting crown
Nolan Ryan's record strikeout year Two no-hitters and 383 strikeouts in a single season
Ryan's fourth Angels no-hitter The fireballer blanks Baltimore for another gem
A free-agent spending splash Signings including Don Baylor and Bobby Grich reshape the roster
First AL West title A first-ever playoff berth as Don Baylor wins MVP
Reggie Jackson signs, division won Mr. October comes west and the club takes the AL West
Rod Carew's 3,000th hit The batting legend reaches the milestone in an Angels uniform
One strike from the pennant A crushing ALCS loss to the Red Sox after being on the brink
Tim Salmon debuts The future Rookie of the Year plays his first games in the outfield
Disney buys the team New ownership renames the club the Anaheim Angels
World Series champions A Rally Monkey run tops the Giants in seven games for a first title
Vladimir Guerrero's MVP The free-agent signing wins the award in his first year
Renamed the Los Angeles Angels The club adopts the 'of Anaheim' name in a marketing move
A 100-win division title The franchise's best regular season to date
Finally past the Red Sox An AL West title and a division-series sweep of longtime nemesis Boston
Mike Trout debuts A future superstar plays his first big-league games
Pujols arrives, Trout's Rookie year Albert Pujols signs a huge deal as Trout runs away with Rookie of the Year
Trout's first MVP The young center fielder claims the award after two runner-up finishes
Shohei Ohtani arrives The two-way star signs and wins Rookie of the Year
Ohtani's unanimous MVP A historic pitching-and-hitting season earns the award
Ohtani's second MVP Another two-way tour de force takes the honor