The work in that Derek Jeter card is a crime against humanity.

Was Bush's left arm Photoshop-amputated?

I'm disappointed there was no mention of Oscar Gamble's obviously photoshopped afro's of the mid-70's.

i work with photoshop every day, been in the newspaper business for years and i'm still learning tricks. but it amazes me that a company like topps wouldn't have someone who knows how to use the application well.

What's next, pictures of celebutante heads photoshopped onto the bodies of naked women?

Was Bush's left arm Photoshop-amputated?

His left arm is "behind" the guy sitting down. Where's his right leg?

That Derek Jeter card is not hilarious, Topps. Maybe if you hadn't learned photoshop the night before it could have worked.

That Derek Jeter card is not hilarious, Topps. Maybe if you hadn't learned photoshop the night before it could have worked.

i disagree. i got a pretty good laugh about it.

That Derek Jeter card is not hilarious, Topps. Maybe if you hadn't learned photoshop the night before it could have worked.

i disagree. i got a pretty good laugh about it.

i disagree. i got a pretty good laugh about it.

I guess it has a Troll 2 quality to it.

I guess it has a Troll 2 quality to it.

it's absurd. and the fact that it's so poorly done just plays into that.

i guess it could be better (bush in a flight suit would have been great), but really, it's just a cool thing, and the fact that it's absurd in its premise doesn't take that away.

i guess it could be better (bush in a flight suit would have been great), but really, it's just a cool thing, and the fact that it's absurd in its premise doesn't take that away.

If they'd had him holding a beer, I would have bought into it. The best part of the picture for me is Jeter's pained expression.

The Cliff Lee one is pretty good except for the "HK" patch, which is hilarious.

Or maybe Topps has word that the Mariners are going to be commemorating the death of Harry Kalas this coming season!

I don't get it. Why did they photoshop pictures of Mickey Mantle and George Bush onto a Derek Jeter baseball card?

Or maybe Topps has word that the Mariners are going to be commemorating the death of Harry Kalas this coming season!

They're actually planning a move to Hong Kong.

If you're going to Photoshop random people into a Topps baseball card, the least you can do is put 1987 Mike Laga somewhere in the background.

That's the suckiest card that ever sucked.

I guess it has a Troll 2 quality to it.

I laughed.

I laughed.

I haven't actually seen Troll 2 yet. Is it worth the experience?

The year I started collecting baseball cards was 1968, the year the A's moved from Kansas City to Oakland. There were some players they got snaps of in spring training with the Oakland "A" cap (Regggie Jackson and Ramon Webster). They also had some shots of players without a cap (Catfish Hunter, Sal Bando and Campy Campaneris). For the players they didn't have capless or in an Oakland cap, Topps used a picture from Kansas City with the "KC" cap blacked out (Blue Moon Odom & Rick Monday). I never understood why they felt this was necessary.

I never understood why they felt this was necessary.

Me too. Topps always felt like they were operating as a kind of media guide for the year you were buying the cards instead of as a record of the previous year. It led to some godawful asethetic decisions on their part and the absence of cards of Reggie in an Orioles uniform.

The year I started collecting baseball cards was 1968, the year the A's moved from Kansas City to Oakland. There were some players they got snaps of in spring training with the Oakland "A" cap (Regggie Jackson and Ramon Webster). They also had some shots of players without a cap (Catfish Hunter, Sal Bando and Campy Campaneris). For the players they didn't have capless or in an Oakland cap, Topps used a picture from Kansas City with the "KC" cap blacked out (Blue Moon Odom & Rick Monday). I never understood why they felt this was necessary.

That's a seperate issue, having to do with MLB's decision to eradicate all mention of the Kansas City A's from the historical record.

I haven't actually seen Troll 2 yet. Is it worth the experience?

Dunno, haven't seen it. I may have misinterpreted your #10.

I'm actually kind of surprised that MLB didn't try to do the whole damnatio memoriae thing to the Montreal Expos and insist on photoshopping all Expo shots that they controlled into National uniforms.

The year I started collecting baseball cards was 1968, the year the A's moved from Kansas City to Oakland. There were some players they got snaps of in spring training with the Oakland "A" cap (Regggie Jackson and Ramon Webster). They also had some shots of players without a cap (Catfish Hunter, Sal Bando and Campy Campaneris). For the players they didn't have capless or in an Oakland cap, Topps used a picture from Kansas City with the "KC" cap blacked out (Blue Moon Odom & Rick Monday). I never understood why they felt this was necessary.

I can't fault Topps from trying to sell the product - the player with his current team - as well as possible. The Kansas City A's were a dead team in 1968, who wants to see anyone in a KC cap? The method they used, of just blacking out the logo, was pretty ugly, I'd agree.

Other methods Topps used over the years were:

Picture of the player with his cap off - player looked okay, but was a little diminished in his capless pose I felt
Shoot from below so the logo isn't visible - depended on the photographer, these pictures could really turn out ugly (Don Paveltich 1972)
Airbrush the new logo on - A lot of this was done in the mid-1970s. Better than the KC A's solution, but still resulted in some bad artwork at times
Don't even try - for their 1979-80 sets, Topps did no off-season player movement updating whatsoever. In fact, a few players who moved late in the season (Dock Ellis, 1980) were still pictured with their until-September teams. No airbrushing, but a lot of out of date cards, and lazy. Good thing Topps got competition not long after.
Use paintings for all the players - What they did in the 1950s. If the artist is painting the whole thing, not just the cap, easier to look natural. Too expensive, I suppose.

The year I started collecting baseball cards was 1968, the year the A's moved from Kansas City to Oakland. There were some players they got snaps of in spring training with the Oakland "A" cap (Regggie Jackson and Ramon Webster). They also had some shots of players without a cap (Catfish Hunter, Sal Bando and Campy Campaneris). For the players they didn't have capless or in an Oakland cap, Topps used a picture from Kansas City with the "KC" cap blacked out (Blue Moon Odom & Rick Monday). I never understood why they felt this was necessary.

My all-time favorite Topps set was 1953, which was the last year that they used paintings instead of photographs. Since the Braves didn't move to Milwaukee that year until March, you had Warren Spahn in a Boston hat and Del Crandall in a Milwaukee hat.

Even that M isn't right. They ended up using a serif M.

One of my favourite "bad-shop" cards is Brett Hull's O-Pee-Chee card the year after he got traded from Calgary to St. Louis.

They simply used the "paint-bucket" option (if it existed) and filled in his jersey blue.
They didn't think to bother trying to hide the red and yellow trim on the neck.

That's his "official" rookie card, too.

Actually, with the exception of the HK patch, this looks like a fairly decent photoshop job by current Topps standards. If you want to see some really awful photoshopping, take a look at what they did for the Roy Halladay card (#286) in this year’ Topps Heritage set — the Phillies script across his chest almost looks cartoonish.