Does Anyone Else Remember doing this..

[nebboy]

I did the same thing (70s) or if need be just made up my own.

[ALR-bishop]

Yes...did it Keith's way. And not always to reflect trades. If I needed a player for one of my teams and could not find the card or there was none, I would make one up with another card of a player who may or may not have looked remotely like the player involved. I know I did that with at least one 1959 Mantle card

[Chris-Counts]

The second year I collected cards was 1971. Even though I was only 10, I quickly decided (and still believe 41 years later) that black-bordered cards are a bad idea. So I trimmed the photos out of countless '71's. Amazingly, without the black borders and with the corners of the photos rounded (that's the way they were printed), they look exactly like cards from the 1969 Topps Super test set, which I always liked. Mine actually came out nicer than the '69 Supers because the '71 set has so many great actions photos. It also has the nicest shots of Connie Mack Stadium I've ever seen on cards (with apologies to the 1955 Bowman set) ...

Another thing that was common for all us kids in the early 70s to do was to draw sideburns, long hair and mustaches on players. Many of the pictures on cards were old, so we were merely updating the fashions depicted on them. Once we saw Oscar Gamble's afro, it was all over ...

[bigtrain]

In 1967, it seemed every pack of cards had a Phil Roof. My brother and I collected dozens of them and glued them to the back of our bedroom door. After a while we started trading for them so we could cover the entire door top to bottom. I think it took over 200 cards. When we moved out, Dad had to replace the door.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by bigtrain

In 1967, it seemed every pack of cards had a Phil Roof. My brother and I collected dozens of them and glued them to the back of our bedroom door. After a while we started trading for them so we could cover the entire door top to bottom. I think it took over 200 cards. When we moved out, Dad had to replace the door.

What - The new occupants weren't Phil Roof fans? Some people have no taste.

[ALR-bishop]

Phil obviously should have been on the ceiling

[David W]

I decopaged (sp??) a bunch of 74's to a clipboard by taping them to the clipboard and them coating them with a thick layer of Elmer's glue.

I wish I could find that clipboard.

We also used to change the team name when a player got traded to his new team, or change positions we'd cross it out and put the new position in.