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...to see if I could bring out some more green. Shown below, you will see how there was some extra green hiding behind the card. I just loosened up the glue and pulled it down a bit.
It is amazing how much more I like this card now, and all it took was a few centimeters of extra patch to show for me to be happy. Recently, I've seen some cards hiding a lot of extra patch material. Take for instance, this project I just wrapped up not too long ago. See these two damaged Tim Duncan patch cards? The left side shows the patch in the card, and right side shows what was covered up.
Here is what was made of them:
I love how the Duncan turned out! Spurs fans sure are going to miss him.
As for Allen & Ginter X, I was bummed they didn't have any of Jose in the past. When my friend (and Jose's friend/warm up pitcher) asked me to make a card of him for the team he was with, I wanted to do something that looked like an A&G X.
Ironically enough, the team he is shown playing for on this card is the team he is playing the entire month for right now. His first game was last night and he went 2-4 (woot!)
Thankfully, There IS a *real* Ginter X card of his this year, and I was able to pick up a silver autograph of his (incoming). As I was texting to the person who sold me it, we discussed production numbers. When giving his two cents, he said "when I signed mine, they only gave me 25 of them."
I didn't know what he meant until he sent me this picture:
His name is Rick Klein and he is actually in the set! He is political director of ABC News. It isn't every day you get to meet someone with a real baseball card! #sojealous.
He texted me yesterday while he was at the National and said he picked up a Ginter X Canseco for me -how cool is that? Thanks Rick! BTW If you have any rare Dale Murphy cards, please let me know - he is a Murphy fan and I'd love to hook him up with some good stuff.
His aren't the only famous eyes that are peeled at the National for me this year though. The one and only Sumrtop has also been on the lookout for me. A BIG shout out and thank you to my brother in custom cardboard for that!
As for Rick, it sounds like he does radio, and though this is a poor segue for a shameless plug, I had my 15 minutes of fame behind the microphone this past week by being interviewed on Beckett Radio. They even had me do a "spot" (saying "This is Tanner from TanManBaseballFan.com and you are listening to Beckett Radio") which will apparently be aired throughout various future shows. If you are interested in listening to it, you can find it here:
https://soundcloud.com/beckett-radio...l-nscc-segment - My segment starts at the 10 minute mark.
Beckett Radio has had some pretty big names on it from hall of famers to baseball card company CEO's. I'm happy to have been able to join them. Thank you, Eric Norton, for having me on!
That is all for now. Have a great weekend everyone!