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Gary B.When I first saw these cards, I had two vastly different reactions:
1. These are kind of cool. A nice homage to a time when cards were so much more interesting - nice to have a modern card that's not a highly glossy plastic metallic holographic monstrosity.
2. These are rip-offs, and putting today's players on old style cards kind of cheapens the uniqueness and specialness of the original issues they were copying.
In the end, even this unusual trend or stunt still couldn't entice me to buy newer cards. I look at one and think, hey this card looks kind of cool and vintage, but it's, you know, Ichiro Suzuki, and I lose interest (no offense to Ichiro, but you get the point). Also, they're just as ridiculously expensive as any other pack of new cards is today - always a turn off.
Definitely both a throwback and a throwaway for me.