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Sorry man, but I can't stand that card. One, because I never got the whole Upper Deck thing. The cards weren't that sharp looking. Yeah, the photography was crisper. But the card design and what not? And the posed photos? Boring as shit.

Mostly, though, I can't stand that card b/c it marks the end of the innocence (hi Zeke!) for the baseball card industry. Upper Deck introduced the obsession with inserts and single cards and killed not only the concept of collecting a full set but also the casual collector. No thanks. Blow it out your ass, Upper Deck.

 

Andy "The Unibrow" Etchebarren.

 

BYH is correct about Upper Deck, but at least they were better than Donruss.

Donruss was the K-Mart of baseball cards.

 

Upper Deck brought it hard a few years ltater with their axtion cards

 

I'm on a crappy OS 9 at work, so I can't find the '82 Donruss Jim Sundberg that I posted here once before. That's still one of my favorite card photographs.

Also, Bo's 1990 Score card:



And possibly my favorite card ever: that 1992(?) Score card of Tom Glavine with a Braves uniform and hockey gear (black and white). Also can't seem to find that with my crappy computer.

 

Can't anyone here figure out how to fire a manager play this fucking game?"

 

I agree that was the perception, but I didn't give a crap. Topps produced the first sets I ever completed (1986 leaders, a 66-card set, and the regular 1986 set) and to me they were always the standard. A season wasn't complete until you had the Topps set. Of course, saying that, I only have six seasons of Topps sets (1985 thru 1990). But that's how I felt when I was a collector.

 

Another cool one:

 

The hip hop kids think they invented the cap-at-a-rakish-angle thing: