Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Vintage backgrounds: Hank Aaron, beginning and end

Hank Aaron had the first and last card in the 1975 Topps, and both have some interesting backgrounds. 

This card has a good use of shadow, with Aaron's silhouette ready to hit behind him. Remember when Johnny's Trading Spot used to do shadow card posts?

It was also a card on Johnny's blog that made me curious about card #660. A few months ago he posted a 2021 card of Aaron signing autographs, that I recognized as being from the same autograph session on his 1974 Topps All Star card. I realized that when Topps airbrushed his Braves uniform to recognize Aaron's trade to the Brewers, that was also from whenever it was Topps got photos of Aaron signing autographs before a night game. Topps used a few different similar photos of Aaron on cards at the time and since.

 

2 comments:

  1. Not being a huge fan of the set, I never knew that he was on the first and last card. I wonder if that's ever been done again since?

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  2. A. Yeah I miss his shadow shots post.

    B. First time noticing the All-Star star on card #1. Interesting that they put it on his highlights card and not on card #660.

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