Very nice work Darren. I especially love the Cardinals in this thread.
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After running across a pic that looked very much like his actual 1972 Topps In Action card, I decided to embark on a celebration of the one and only Johnny Bench...
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Those are great pics, Darren. Hard to believe that was 50 years ago. Bench was such a great catcher, and your cards show that.
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I love those reimagined 1972s! As far as I'm concerned, the 72s are one of the finest sets ever, and certainly the best set of the 1970s. I particularly like the Nolan Ryan cards with the little "a" on his cap — that's what he wore that one and only year. I watched him pitch a lot for the Halos that year, including his first spring training start. When he tossed a pitch over Willie McCovey's head early in the game, I was certain he was going to be a bust.
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Ran across an absolutely joyous photograph of Brooks Robinson and Mark Belanger, so I threw together yet another pair of new Brooksies (especially for our fellow member who loves him the most)...
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And how about a celebratory reimagining of...
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I've never messed around with card creation myself, but this thread is fantastic. I love the 72 In Action designs but the photos Topps used in the real were set a bit... lackluster. Nice to see the improvements you all have made
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I decided to take the time to finally give Lou Brock his long-awaited due...
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Incredible work Darren!
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Awesome looking Brock cards Darren. Oddly enough, the Cardinals didn't have ANY "In Action" cards in the 1972 set, despite having Gibson, Brock, Torre, Simmons, etc.
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Yup, the entire Genesis for this undertaking started due to the mind-blowing lack of Cardinals in the 1972 'In Action' subset. Here is the original thread that started all of this craziness, long before I started adding all of the other deserving players who were neglected...
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LOL, I read that entire thread and even posted in it. I had forgotten what the original intent was with regard to the Cardinals. Some really nice work there.
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With so much of my attention focused on Mr. October recently, I decided to give the most notable card missing from the Reginald Martinez Jackson cardboard canon a go. I present for your consideration, his '1976 Topps Traded Card That Never Was' (with the requisite, and in my case purposeful, bad airbrushing/large hatting/uniform inventing that was Topps' SOP over the years)...
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And how about Frank Robinson and Joe Morgan on their 'new' teams...
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Whoops, forgot 'Lefty' on his 'new' team!!
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Darren, all wonderful stuff.
As a big fan of the regular '72 Ryan (not everyone is...) I dearly wish that your first "Traded" Ryan with him in that old school lower case Angels "a" cap had been a real thing. That is just fantastic. Green sleeves? Ok...I guess nobody in Anaheim in 1972 was probably paying that close of attention anyway! Thanks! -John |
Awesome work. Funny enough I was just looking at my Yaz '72 In Action today. My only gripe is that the back of these cards is not at all focused on the player, but overall the fronts are great and capture the period well. Keep 'em coming!
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Time to get this thread going a little bit again. I present a new collection of all-time greats in what I'm going to call
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Great looking cards...even like the Ferguson cameo, lucky for him.
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Love those new cards Darren. I must have missed this thread back in June. Seeing Frank Robinson in a Dodgers uniform just looks so wrong.
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Cool idea and I hope those are all high numbers.
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Great cards. But why is Berra wearing shin guards while he appears to be in the on deck circle?
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Protection from foul balls?
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And a few more sluggers and hurlers (including a pair already posted long ago, but they fit the theme, so what the hey) to add to the mix...
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This has been a great thread
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Too bad you can't transfer these to regulation card stock...I'd be a buyer for several of them.
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As one of the millions (I'm sure) of people ecstatic with glee for Gil Hodges' family and the righting of a tremendous Brooklynese wrong, here is a sampling of possible cards from the 1972 set.
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What a great ride. Excellent work! Loved them all. The 72 set could've added a whole other series. I wish Topps had used those photo's. :)
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Time to give a big shout out to the Twin Cities and 'Tony-O' fans, so I present what coulda/shoulda/woulda been Tony Oliva cards in the 1972 set...
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Love the Hodges and Oliva's...two of my favorites...thanks for doing those! I suppose now you have to do Kaat and Minoso...:)
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Fantastic job Mr. Elm, a set of your work would sell like hot cakes, at least to folks here.
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I was thinking of maybe putting together mouse pads (and t-shirts, etc.) on Zazzle or CafePress...
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And by popular request*...
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Great cards. What's with the look on that last one? Was that after a k?
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These are the cards I should've actually done and posted first, to function as 'Killer' career cappers...
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Those are AWESOME...especially the 76 Topps format, wish he had a card that year and in Royals would have been awesome. Thanks Jolly!!
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These are outstanding. If I were Fanatics I would hire you to put out supplements and go year by year. If printed on the right stick at proper size they would be awesome! Those ‘72 IAs are just incredible. Great work.
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I keep staring at the 2nd 76 Killebrew card...not only is that one great piece of art but man, it just looks period and part of that set. Unreal job Darren...WOW.
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Thanks for the props, guys. This stuff takes waaaaay too long to do accurately enough to come out looking legitimate to the set and era, so it's nice to be appreciated.
Now take a look at the first 1975 card and then the last 1975 card, and check out the fans in the seats (especially the guy on the left and the lady on the right who are bookending Mr. Killebrew). What in high heck is happening high up in right field, so that barely anyone is watching Killer's at bat???????? The photos were taken only a second apart (if that), so perhaps he hit a towering fly to right? The first card shows the crowd and him (in frustration) following the flight of the ball, and the fourth card shows him flipping his bat towards the ball boy after the fielder caught it and ended the inning?? Just a possible theory...but we all know the most probable explanation is something involving a UFO. |
I'll voice my wish again that somehow these great images you've created can be translated to regular card stock.
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We all know how awful most of the 1961 Minnesota Twins cards look due to Topps not having pictures of the players in their new uniforms after the Washington Senators relocated to the Gopher State, so kids only had a bunch of hatless headshots and airbrushed caps coming out of packs that summer. After over sixty years of suffering, I am now happy to say Harmon Killebrew has a new lease on
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Those are insane Darren...WOW. PM sent...and THANKS. As a Killebrew massive fan those fix the embarrassment of a 61 Topps card ALL the Twins/Senators got as you mentioned. Don't know how you do what you do so well, but that's art right there...
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The Killebrews are awesome, as a big collector of his I wish they had made those cards. You do a great job!
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I stumbled across a few color images of Jackie Robinson with his historic #42 in plain view, so I was able to create a few more of his cards for the "By The Numbers..." section, but it was full, so place them here I will...
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Time to give a shout out to the resident 'Red Hed' we have here at net54, so I present what coulda/shoulda/woulda been Red Schoendienst cards in the 1972 set...
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These are amazing! Great job!
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Those are awesome, Darren. Red was a beloved figure in St. Louis. Have a quick story told to me and another guy personally by Red in a suite at a Cardinals game about 15 years ago. There was a 1956 baseball card of Nelson Burbrink in a glass display case in the suite and I asked Red if he remembered him (of course he did). When I mentioned it was a '56 card he said "that was the year I got traded" and told us this story:
In the 1956 season Red and Stan Musial would drive to the ballpark together during home games. Their wives would then drive down together and they would then ride home with their wives after the game. Red picked up Stan one day and Stan was in a foul mood. Red asked what was the matter and Stan said "Lane (the Cardinals GM at the time) called me and said he was going to trade me". The GM was known as "Trader Lane" at the time. Stan then said he called Gussie Busch, Chairman of Anheuser Busch who bought the team in 1953, and told him to call Lane and tell him he was crazy to trade him. Apparently that happened and Busch called off any trade of Stan the Man. Red said as he was driving home he thought to himself "well if Lane was going to trade Stan he would also trade me". Sure enough, the next day, on the trading deadline, Red was traded to the NY Giants. Exactly one year later, also on the deadline, he was traded to the Milwaukee Braves which he helped win a World Series against the Yankees. He then contracted tuberculosis and was out a year, then traded back to the Cardinals before the 1961 season where he finished his career as a player, then became their manager as you beautifully depict above, winning a World Series against the the Red Sox in '67 and losing to the Tigers in '68. |
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Found a trio of very cool photos, so I did what any normal human being would do and turned them into 1972 baseball cards.
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I like the Johnny Bench photo that was used because you can see the front cover of a Mets program a fan is holding.
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What the heck, how about an additional Roberto Clemente and Mickey Mantle...
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What the double heck, let's give it up for a bunch of Roberto Clemente cards which actually show him SURPRISE!!! SURPRISE!!! donning a glove...
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These are fantastic! They really are. My favorite 70's set is 75 since it's the 1st one I collected as a kid but I do think the design of the 72 is emblematic of the decade. Your posts are always great and informative.
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These are fantastic - Topps should hire you to create a retro-sub set!
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Ran into a very cool shot of Willie Mays readying to dig in at Shea, with his epic #24 proudly on display, so I said what the heck...
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epike3 beat me to it.
You should be hired by a card company to create everything! They are awesome! Thanks for showing. I like the Lefty Carlton on the lower right Bob |
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A couple of randos...
Always hated the 1972 "Clyde" Frazier All-Star, where he's all low to the ground and practically (and completely unnecessarily) falling off the left side of the card. On this day, I right that wrong!! And this version includes one of the same co-stars from his original Topps offering. Plus, a cool Babe Ruth for the "By the Numbers" section... Attachment 611067 Attachment 611068 |
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The background of that Ruth is odd. There's a guy in a cowboy hat and jeans. Seems unlikely in NY in the 1930's. :D
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