Posted By:
Gilbert MainesKevin,
Some of us have to struggle to grasp that which may be intuitively obvious to another. For example, in this thread, Mike and Dennis noted that the borders of Brad's card seemed bigger than normal. And Leon verified that his example also had relatively big borders.
As it turns out, Brad has several of these cards, and they all have big borders. Which is, since the card width doesn't change, the same as saying that the Grove card has a narrower image than other w-517s. And this is true.
But the Grove card is not unique in this. Out of 14 different cards which I checked, four had the larger borders. Three of these four I have multiple examples, so it is a design feature, not a printing variance.
Perhaps interestingly, each of these four cards depict a player in an action pose, and each of the ten with narrower borders depict a player in a portrait.
Although this initial check is far from verified, it could be that the w-517 set actually contains three different sized images (including the mini).