Friday, June 26, 2009

Upper Deck Sticks It to Topps One More Time

In light of the whole Upper Deck paying homage to Topps O-Pee-Chee lawsuit, including the 2009 O-Pee-Chee parallels that were supposed to mimic the 1971 design, I find this card from 2009 SP Legendary Cuts a little funny:

So do you think the card containing the disappearing ink penmanship to be from 1971 Topps Baseball or 1971 O-Pee-Chee Baseball?

Holy cow is that one ugly card. Ugly signature. Face cut off to protect image rights. Blech. The "new" part of the card has Martin on the Yankees but the not-so-obvious "inner card" has him on the Tigers. I love the clean stamp look of this year's SP Legendary Cuts but this card is pretty bad. But it can be found on eBay for a penny less than $175.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

There's some visual ipecac if I've ever seen it...

Steve Gierman said...

That's actually kind of funny, all things considered.

dayf said...

Dammit I hate when they do crap like this. There are no index cards or checks to harvest autographs from? Upper Deck HAS to chop up actual collectibles to create a cut auto?

NOTAFINGA

JBob said...

Ugliest thing ever!