Don Schulze is the pitching coach for the Midland RockHounds, a minor league affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, two rungs below the majors. In 1985, after Schulze had gone 3-6 for the Cleveland Indians, Topps rewarded him with card No. 93 in its annual baseball card set.

This would be mundane to almost everyone in a major league uniform now, but Pat Neshek is not like most players. Neshek, a sidearm Oakland relief pitcher, is trying to collect autographs on all 792 Topps cards from 1985. He spotted Schulze at spring training, fetched his card from a box in his locker and snagged the autograph.

“I told him, ‘I’m doing the set, I’ve got most of them done and I need to add you,’ ” Neshek said. “He’s like, ‘Yeah right, you don’t have that!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah I do!’ He was real cool about it.”

Neshek spoke one morning last month in the A’s clubhouse, on a day that included a visit from the Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson. Neshek said he had Henderson’s signature on his regular 1985 Topps card, but not on Henderson’s All-Star card. By late afternoon, Neshek had gotten his man.