Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Too ugly for a sweater

Peter at Baseball Every Night is having an Ugly Sweater contest - post a picture of your ugliest card and you are entered. I immediately thought of this card from the 1998 Sports Illustrated set. The illustration was by "artist" T.S. O'Connell, whose day job, editor of Sports Collectors Digest, explains how he was able to get this monstrosity through.
Needless to say, T.S. needs to learn when to stop adding detail to the face. There are more examples of his "artwork" online. To be fair, most of them are passible illustrations, but there are still others that are downright (unintentionally) comical, like Camouflage Face Gary Carter:

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5 comments:

  1. Peter K SteinbergNovember 13, 2018 at 1:49 PM

    Dude. This is awful. Ghastly! It's like Brooks Robinson is the ugly lovechild of Freddy Kruger and that nasty tan old woman from There's Something About Mary! Egad. Horrible!

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  2. Billy KingsleyNovember 13, 2018 at 7:06 PM

    That's nightmare fuel. Yikes!

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  3. JonNovember 13, 2018 at 7:57 PM

    Nice choice!

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  4. acrackedbatNovember 13, 2018 at 8:48 PM

    darn you Bo - you beat me to it. This Brooks is the EXACT card I was going to post for the contest. I have never seen a more hideous card. wrap this contest up cuz this is the winner!

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  5. FujiNovember 14, 2018 at 10:50 AM

    Oh man. Gotta wonder what Robinson said when he first saw this card.

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