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May. 18th, 2011 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupI have no excuse for this other than a nostalgic love of baseball cards and the following photo which popped up this morning, of Tim DeKay screwing around with a baseball mitt:
I thought, I can't resist this. I love baseball cards with a nostalgic, abiding affection.
And, when I was a youth, the card to collect was Upper Deck. They were a young company and they had those neat foil wrappers, the expensive glossy finishes, the semi-intentional graphic design, and the shiny hologram base on the back.
On the other hand, Topps was the classic; everyone had Topps cards because those were just what one bought. They were cheap and came with horrific gum, which we chewed like fiends. Also Junie said if I was making baseball cards of Peter Burke, Pitcher, I pretty much had to make one of Neal Caffrey, Catcher.
My hand to god the purple font is how Topps Yankees cards that year looked. (I know you're all looking at the font.)
And then there are the old-timey baseball cards from cigarette packs -- Honus Wagner, for example. Only fifty seven Honus Wagner cards exist, and they're worth millions in mint condition.
Probably not as much with Tim DeKay's head pasted on, but much much funnier.
I thought, I can't resist this. I love baseball cards with a nostalgic, abiding affection.
And, when I was a youth, the card to collect was Upper Deck. They were a young company and they had those neat foil wrappers, the expensive glossy finishes, the semi-intentional graphic design, and the shiny hologram base on the back.
On the other hand, Topps was the classic; everyone had Topps cards because those were just what one bought. They were cheap and came with horrific gum, which we chewed like fiends. Also Junie said if I was making baseball cards of Peter Burke, Pitcher, I pretty much had to make one of Neal Caffrey, Catcher.
My hand to god the purple font is how Topps Yankees cards that year looked. (I know you're all looking at the font.)
And then there are the old-timey baseball cards from cigarette packs -- Honus Wagner, for example. Only fifty seven Honus Wagner cards exist, and they're worth millions in mint condition.
Probably not as much with Tim DeKay's head pasted on, but much much funnier.
