Friday, February 5, 2021

Fleer's baffling photo choices

A second card from Jason, and a second card within a few blog posts from one of Fleer's limited edition 44-card glossy sets that were sold in complete sets, in packs like decks of playing cards. At the end of January I posted about an All Star card that started off a new binder page devoted to these cards. I'm glad to say it didn't take long for that card to have some company.

Card Number 582: Fleer Award Winners, 1988; #16

I like the bold frames that most of these card sets feature.


However, I have to question the use of the photo, particularly if you juxtapose this with the other Fleer Award Winner card I have, which was printed in 1987.


So, on the 'slugger award' card from 1988, Tony isn't shown holding a bat. But on the 'fielding award' card from 1987, he is holding a bat! (And rather nonchalantly too!) 

It feels like Fleer are trolling us here. I find it very hard to believe they couldn't have found a photo of Tony holding a bat to illustrate him slugging.

Anyway, the back of the Award Winners card from 1988 isn't very interesting. There's a bit of space under the candy-striped stats box that Fleer could have filled with a little note about what Tony did to win the award. But they didn't write anything there. (He was the batting champion with an average of .370.)


The second page of these special edition cards is coming along nicely, though!

Total: 582 cards


2 comments:

  1. The photo selection for the 1987 Award Winner card was definitely lazy on Fleer's part. As for the card back... I like the red, white, and blue color scheme, but I agree they could have utilized the space better.

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  2. Loving the red, white, and blue back. The front? Not so much.

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