Candidate for the Most Airbrushing on a Card
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What were they thinking? JollyElm probably has a word for this :)
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72. Dreadshot
A Topps card featuring basically nothing but the noggin of the ballplayer. See also: Nomad Hatter - a card showing a player on his ‘new’ team, sporting a badly airbrushed cap. |
Looks like an equestrian card
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Looks like he's wearing a helmet, not a cap.
Here's a couple of other egregiously airbrushed cards. |
Yeah 71 is an obvious candidate. Card #666.
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Seems like the A’s got airbrushed a bunch. Helmet and jersey. Plus, why the red?
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That '71 Dick Williams could be a Topps Project 2020 card.
EDIT to add: So could the '77 Tommy Helms. |
If you think the 1971 Dick Williams has some bad airbrushing, check out his 1986 Topps Traded!
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NOTHING beats Rick Jones...Ever!
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I guess any one of these 3 could be the winner, but I personally like RJ the best.
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Just about all the 77 Blue Jays and Mariners cards are bad. Couldn’t keep up with the expansion teams I guess.
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I don't know if it's airbrushing, but the 1957 Topps Mantle has some guy in the background that's been "heavily redacted".
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What's amazing to me is that Bowman had no trouble with adjusting to players changing teams — way before Photoshop. It seems like the Topps art department was made up of third graders.
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How can everyone's favorite not be this one!
https://andscape.com/wp-content/uplo...ad-1.jpg?w=700 Lazy cover of the Indians cap and an airbrushed pinstripe jersey that looks like a barber's cape on him, lol. A classic. |
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Partial team equestrian
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In fairness, it was MOST airbrushing, although that hair makes this card so epic. Without the mouse ears, this card is lost in the mundane.
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When I saw the title of the thread my first thought was “someone has to post the 1978 Greg Minton” for some reason that card has always creeped me out!
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I always wondered who (or what) Tom was pitching to here
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Me too! Mike |
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I'm not entirely sure this is airbrushed (I think it is), but it's one of my favorite odd cards.
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Some really great cards in here.
Some claim there are variants of the 57 Mantle with different degrees of the ghost guy. But I have never been able to spot one that I thought was significantly different from the one I have |
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It's funny, when I went about creating a 'Cards That Never Were' for Reggie on the Orioles, I made sure to mirror the awfulness of the large-hat Topps airbrushing academy...
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Sure, but I'd include his face in the non-airbrushed camp as well.
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There are so many out there, but the one that always seems to make me cringe the most is Rich McKinney, 1973:
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I think the footballs tend to have the most. Some of them are ridiculous.
Brockington was a Packer in 1971, when he debuted. In his first series 1972 card, they used an unaltered photo. In the third series, they edited the same exact photo, atrociously. |
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Always liked this one...
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