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Monday, January 30, 2012
Squirrel Bait: Choose Your Poison!
Well, that’s not completely true. The bottom of Skip Schumaker’s pants leg is actually quite visible in the 2012 Topps Series 1 baseball card set that’s launching on Wednesday.
...Now that l’il critter has somehow become big enough to push Schumaker almost completely off his own baseball card. According to Topps, it’s the first time in company history that a player’s card has not featured the player’s face.
The company also says that it hasn’t given Schumaker a sneak peek at this latest piece of memorabilia, so one can only guess what he thinks of playing second fiddle to the squirrel on his own baseball card. But he can take solace in the fact that some of the cards will feature Schumaker’s face. According to Beckett, the squirrel will only appear on the “short-print” variation of the card, making the squirrel version a valuable find for collectors out there.
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1. salvomania Posted: January 30, 2012 at 07:31 PM (#4049905)Not true. Even if you discount the few times a wrong player appeared on a player's card, there have been several action shots in which the player's face is completely obscured.
Now I WOULD believe that it's the first time a player's HEAD hasn't appeared on a card, but that's not the same thing.
FU, Topps. (I HATE short-printed cards in modern sets. No reason at all for it except for the card companies to be dicks.)
Skip Schumaker is Kid Dynamite! He's hammering so hard!
.98 for the screwdown case.
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