Thursday, March 1, 2018

dishonoring heritage

i bought some 2018 topps heritage.  i got a few cards that i found interesting and will keep for my collection, but not too many.  one card that left me shaking my head was card number 1 in the set - the american league 2017 batting leaders card
let's take a closer look.

jose altuve led the league with a .346 average.

avisail garcia was second with a .330 average.

eric hosmer was third with a .318 average.

hanley ramirez had a .242 average on the season.

topps put hanley on the front of the card instead of the indians' jose ramirez, who tied hosmer at .318.

i also noticed that topps referred to andrew miller as a "righty" in the text on the back of his card.

does topps even pay attention to baseball anymore?

8 comments:

  1. I'd love the leader card with Hanley if it's up for grabs

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  2. I'm no expert on Heritage or even the '69 set but is this one of those paying-homage-to-the-original-set "errors" that I hear about?

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    1. It is not listed as a homage variation, and the 1969 version of the card had the right guys on it (Yaz, Cater, and Oliva)

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    2. I had the same thought as Once a Cub, but it sounds like this was just really sloppy proofing by Topps.

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  3. Great detective work. I never would have caught that.

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  4. I saw he was on a league leader card, but couldn't figure out why. Now I know!

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  5. Topps? Pay attention?

    They spent the last week pretending that their photographer was "playing along" with Troy Tulowitzki pretending to be a pitcher on photo day...and then sold it for profit.

    They've been out of touch for a while.

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