Origin of t206 art?

[D. Bergin]

LOL, funny. I just showed my wife and daughter some cards I got back from SGC, and my wife was disturbed by the following card. Thinks the arm angle with the ball in hand is impossible. Looks like he has a hand growing out of his back. Would love to show her the photo reference.

Showed it to my daughter, who's actually a working artist, and she saw nothing wrong with it.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

LOL, funny. I just showed my wife and daughter some cards I got back from SGC, and my wife was disturbed by the following card. Thinks the arm angle with the ball in hand is impossible. Looks like he has a hand growing out of his back. Would love to show her the photo reference.

Showed it to my daughter, who's actually a working artist, and she saw nothing wrong with it.

I like it when folks point out funny things about cards I have not noticed before. That second arm does appear to be coming out of McGinnity's back! But I think it is a legitimate perspective...the Iron Man must have had a twisty pitching motion.

Brian

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

I like it when folks point out funny things about cards I have not noticed before. That second arm does appear to be coming out of McGinnity's back! But I think it is a legitimate perspective...the Iron Man must have had a twisty pitching motion.

Brian

Funny thing was, I didn't even think twice about it when I saw it. Wife looked at it and immediately said "I don't like that! I don't like that at all!"



I spent the next 5 minutes showing her pitching motions where it might be possible, and she spent the next 5 minutes rolling her eyes at me as hard as she possibly could.

[Jobu]

Here's my RPPC for Roy Ellam (the C on his hat is for Connorsville).

[drazz5]

Originally Posted by Jobu

Here's my RPPC for Roy Ellam (the C on his hat is for Connorsville).

So cool!!!

[GeoPoto]

J. Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan. Outfielder for the Washington Senators in 1907-1922. 2,100 hits and 495 stolen bases in 16 MLB seasons. 1912 and 1913 AL stolen base leader, including a then record 88 in 1912. His career OBP was .353. Managed the Washington Senators in 1922. His best season was probably 1911 for Washington as he posted a .395 OBP with 58 stolen bases and 109 runs scored in 705 plate appearances.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1649182790
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[drazz5]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

J. Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan. Outfielder for the Washington Senators in 1907-1922. 2,100 hits and 495 stolen bases in 16 MLB seasons. 1912 and 1913 AL stolen base leader, including a then record 88 in 1912. His career OBP was .353. Managed the Washington Senators in 1922. His best season was probably 1911 for Washington as he posted a .395 OBP with 58 stolen bases and 109 runs scored in 705 plate appearances.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1649182790
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1649182799

The hitting stance cards in particular always seemed so strange/unrealistic that I thought those might have been the exception. so cool to see those were based off of photographs as well. Thanks!

[Belfast1933]

My wife just had a great suggestion as a complement to my very modest display of T-206’s in my HOF display - post a print of the original photo/image behind each card in my collection

Any chance anyone here has images of the original photos for these cards?

Thx for any leads!

Jeff

[conor912]

That's funny about the McGinnity. I never noticed that before.

Here is a piece of old letterhead from the ALC I picked up to go with my T3 set. Before I saw it, the thought never even occurred to me that women could very well have been responsible for the art on the cards we collect. I always just pictured some guy in suspenders at a drawing table smoking a Piedmont