Baseball Cards: 2019

[batmagadanleadoff]

Sneak preview - the 2019 base set -- understated and readable cards, a little more serious looking than the cards of the 60s and 70s, but not nearly as garish and cluttered as what Topps is capable of based on the last 10 or 20 years of design --



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And 2019 Topps Heritage



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[Guest 41Forever]

I just completed my 1970 set today. Nolan Ryan, No. 712, was he last one. The Heritage cards look nice.

[seawolf17]

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I just completed my 1970 set today. Nolan Ryan, No. 712, was he last one. The Heritage cards look nice.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I just completed my 1970 set today. Nolan Ryan, No. 712, was he last one. The Heritage cards look nice. Nice! The Heritage Tebow isn't real - he wouldn't be in the set, plus the font is wrong.

Yeah, I noticed the "off" Tebow font. "Mets" looks a little off, also. And the border on the Tebow card is much wider than on the actual '70 cards. Same for the Betts border.

[bmfc1]

I'm not a card-ologist (?), I'm just asking the experts, but it seems as if the 2019 Topps design sacrifices space for an unnecessary border (I'm not going to say "wall") on the right and at the bottom. In other words, couldn't they have made the picture larger?

[seawolf17]

Topps likes to put some sort of border feature on the flagship set, because it allows them to make colored parallel cards and it makes the chrome set this summer a little brighter too. (At least that's my impression.)

[bmfc1]

Thank you, seawolf17. I guess that in "our day", that would have been the color to match when "flipping".

[Edgy MD]

I'm all for borders over bleeds.



Basic information (player, team, position) is appropriate on the front, and reading it against the background of the photo is always a headache. Asking the card publishers to consistently provide contrast betwen the text and the photo for hundreds of cards with 100 different levels of light and brightness, at that size, is asking too much.



So yeah, givum me a border (which also makes for a great design signature for the set), or give me a stylized text box.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Looks like the background is blurred in all those new Topps cards. Wonder if they instagram filtered the entire set is like that?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'm guessing the Conforto card really isn't focused on his feet but the photo of the Conforto card is.



all these nice cards made "flipping" impossible.



Were "trick cards" a thing when you grew up? That was where someone would take a pair of scissors & cut off colored team names of a half dozen+ cards and scotch-tape them all to one card so "every color" showed and you always won that flip. In our hood you had to agree to their use before a flip but everyone had a few or were making a few.

[Edgy MD]

Have you spent any quality time at http://www.baseballcardvandals.com/Baseball Card Vandals?



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[A Boy Named Seo]

My brother and I used to do that with our doubles or any card featuring Pascual and/or Melido Perez.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Incredibly creative and stupid site with an occasional rip roarer



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[seawolf17]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Looks like the background is blurred in all those new Topps cards. Wonder if they instagram filtered the entire set is like that?

Yes, that kind of focus been the photo style the past few years.



I hadn't thought about these borders making the cards eminently flippable, but yeah, they would if they're team-color dependent. They haven't appeared in any of my local stores yet, so I don't have a true point of reference. This design is *very* 1982. The late 80s sets, for all their weaknesses, made color match flipping a really easy game to learn and play.

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Incredibly creative and stupid site with an occasional rip roarer

Yeah, I think a big part of the charm is the seventh-grade-iness of it.

[seawolf17]

https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/1090641796848369664

[batmagadanleadoff]

2019 Topps Heritage set is out. First peek at some Mets cards, including an air-brushed Robinson Cano in a Mets uni. It's 1970 all over again so let's break up the Beatles, invade Cambodia and get yer ya ya's out.



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[seawolf17]

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Topps has released the first images of their 2020 set.