Need help with weird 2016 Topps Pete Rose cards!

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage

These are custom made cards that someone unrelated to Topps created using Topps' template system. They shut it down just before the Fanatics purchase and without warning, I might ad. They had a variety of border templates to use: 1952, 1987, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, etc etc.

I frequently used this service, which was a great value ($10 per 20 cards) and is missed.

Agreed. I used their service in 2017 to make my first Thumbs Down Guy business cards.





The one thing I didn't like was that if the chosen card design included team logos, as was the case with the 2017 design I used, you HAD to include one on your card; either one of the MLB teams, or your own design, but it had to be something. There was no option for a logo-free variant of the design. At the time I made the card, I hadn't yet reached out to the master cartoonist Tom Beland to create my caricature logo, so I was forced to use a generic thumbs-down image; I'd have preferred no logo at all.