I like this year's Topps cards quite a lot. I think they are much better than 2010 Upper Deck. But Topps is up to their old Photoshopping ways again. I've only bought a few packs of Topps Opening Day. One of the first cards was this Curtis Granderson card. My first though was that I didn't remember him being with the Yankees last year. He ended up in New York after a three-way trade involving the Yankees, Tigers and Diamondbacks.

Here's his regular Topps card as a Tiger.

Here's another example with John Lackey. He was a fre agent signed by the Red Sox (a cool $82 mil for 5 years) in December.

Last year he was with the Angels. They did a pretty good job with the Red Sox uniform. You can even see a little a Red Sox patch on his right sleeve.

Does this sort of thing bother you? It doesn't bother me. Topps, after all, has a long tradition of doing this sort of thing but today they are much better at it. I think it's fun to find cards like this.
Those are pretty good. I just checked out the Heritage versions, as well. They're not too bad either. For the Heritage, though, they should go back to the tried and true air brush.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd rather see press conference photos or obviously airbrushed closeups, but I don't mind the digital manipulation if there isn't time to get real game shots.
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