Topps must believe “it ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught”

March 16, 2012 · 1 comment

But savvy baseball cards buffs like Night Owl Cards caught them.

To be fair, back int he day when the company released one series at a time, instead of all at one (kids, ask your parents), they often airbrushed logos onto the hats and/or unis of players who had been traded during the season. In the 1980s-90s (my memory is fuzzy on this and I just don’t feel like investigating right now), there were the occasional “Topps traded” series which featured real updates of players on their new clubs.

But this, this is just bordering on fraud (is it plagiarism if you recycle your old stuff to make it seem new?).

 

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1 Strikethree March 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm

No, my favorite is using the same team picture years in a row…a practice of the 50s-60s. They wouldn’t allow me to publish in my book a composite of the ’65-66-67 Indians, which was actually a ’64 team pic.

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