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Recently, Steve started making graphic images of baseball cards that were never issued, but would be interesting to see. For instance, he put Harold Baines on a 1980 Topps card, usurping the 1981 Topps card as the Baines rookie card. Steve is a maestro.
Back in the day (meaning pre-pc's), I was a master of the 'cut and paste', but that meant actual 'cutting' and actual 'pasting'. It was a long
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For me, these 'cards' are so cool. I grew up with mainly one baseball card company, Topps. That meant one baseball card of each player every year. Some less
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As a baseball fan and card collector, this annoyed me. I wanted to see Mike Squires in the old red and blue White Sox uni on a 1976 card. I wanted a 1979 'rookie' card of Harry Chappas, the diminutive but highly-touted shortstop. I was disappointed that Ricky Seilheimer never appeared on any card.
Thanks to Steve, my Seilheimer angst has subsided. As soon
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Seilheimer seems out of place in the company of those other great players. I might have been the only person desiring a Seilheimer card. So, I really appreciate Steve's effort. Now, if I could just find an old picture of Squires circa 1975, I would really be content!
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