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01-25-2023, 11:24 PM
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One begets the other . . .
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01-26-2023, 10:26 AM
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Buzz Guy certainly fits the facial expression, don't you think? And talk about unfortunate luck, this Bob Gibson was also a pitcher.
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01-26-2023, 02:15 PM
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This card requires a little story to go along with it:
I bought this card on eBay and when I got it in the mail I noticed the return address listed Pat Neshek as the sender. I knew his name and realized I'd purchased this Greinke card from a former MLB pitcher and All Star. Then I found this article where Neshek talks about Greinke being the only guy in baseball to blow him off when he asked for an autograph and I've always wondered if Neshek sold the card because it made him sick to look at: 
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01-26-2023, 03:32 PM
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01-27-2023, 01:11 PM
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This one isn't shocking per se, but interesting if you know the story. I worked for the Birmingham Barons from 1997-2004 and the team card set was my project each year. In this set, we decided to create our own design instead of using the stock designs from Grandstand, which most Minor League teams did. I worked with my friend Brad, who was a graphic/web designer and did some graphics work for the team.
I would go through all of the photos we had collected and tried to use the best ones of each player we had. Brad and I saw this photo and thought it was great but there was one problem... the baseball was too far to fit into the frame without turning the card horizontally and that didn't fit the design. This was my 2nd favorite design we did. Brad said he could fix it, and cut the baseball and pasted it back so it would fit into the frame. We adjusted it several times to try to get the right angle and clarity of the ball, so no one would notice. No one ever did and it became one of my favorite action shots! It just so turned out that it was of a player that went on to play 12 years in the Majors. Mike Morse.jpg Last edited by Jenx34; 01-27-2023 at 01:11 PM.
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01-28-2023, 06:42 PM
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04-21-2023, 09:50 AM
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That Barry Sanders card made me think of this card. Shocking! canseco.jpeg
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05-04-2023, 05:57 PM
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Thought I'd add a bit of a call back to post #78...
1970-71-topps-basketball-insert-poster-jerry-sloan.jpg
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05-04-2023, 07:40 PM
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Sadaharu Oh lighting Shigeo Nagashima’s cigarette in bed on a 1974 Calbee card took me by surprise when I first saw it.
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05-04-2023, 08:22 PM
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Since we've posted basketball too here I'm going to flex the board rules slightly. One of my favorite "WTF?" cards. This is from the tough E77 issue of 24 cards, 23 of which are nice cards. I don't know what happened here. The artist painted half his shirt and then decided there wasn't enough man boob on the card so he better not finish the shirt? He portrayed Kaufman shirtless and then decided half a shirt would look better? Nobody ever noticed how absurd the picture is?
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