brian brings bowman's best betts; backgrounds boggle

try saying that title five times fast.....

after i met up with brian from highly subjective and completely arbitrary at the monthly card show, he sent a few cards my way to add to what he had already given me in person. the cards included a 2023 bowman's best mookie betts card

and a freddie freeman refractor parallel

from the same set.

i also picked up the james outman and bobby miller base cards, along with a miller refractor 

from a dime box at the card show i wrote about earlier in the week.

the backgrounds on the cards made me think of a bee hive thanks to the honeycomb pattern. i also found it odd that the background was less defined on the refractor's scan.

there were some other card backgrounds that confused me as well. brian included the james outman

and miguel vargas

cards from 2023 bowman platinum. i already had a betts card

from that set, and appreciated the others so i could see if their backgrounds were as strange as the one on mookie's card. and they are, in fact, as strange. what is that? and why do we need it on a baseball card?

the backgrounds of the cards in 2023 topps cosmic chrome

are less confusing as to content but equally confusing as to why? still, they have a place in my dodger collection and i am happy to have them.

thanks brian!