I'm not showing an actual card today, because I wanted to post about a 'virtual' card that Dave sent me. Dave has a blog called Baseball Fans Only, and recently published an article about my Tony Gwynn collection.
We also batted around a few ideas for a 'beginner's guide' to collecting baseball cards. It's a huge topic to try and summarise. (Maybe we need a 'beginner's guide to writing beginner's guides about collecting baseball cards'!) Dave gave me a co-author credit on that article although he did almost all the work.
One of Dave's other interests is creating 'virtual baseball cards', and he sent this to me a couple of days ago.
Obviously, the actual card from Panini is devoid of logos, which means Dave's card has a bit of an edge.
This isn't the first card-art I've received, of course. I had a Christmas card off Laura (of Laura's Clubhouse) with a doctored 1994 Topps card on it. This still makes me smile.
So that's a slight diversion for today. I'm very excited about the card I get to show you tomorrow!
That Christmas custom is awesome! And huge props to Dave for using a photo with all of Gwynn's limbs and pieces of equipment intact.
ReplyDeleteI will pass that on. He will be pleased it ticks all your boxes for cards!
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