Thursday, January 22, 2009

Cards with pictures of cards

Dinged Corners has a very interesting new post on recursive cards. These are cards which feature a player holding that card - essentially an infinite image. The two cards that fit this bill are the 1989 Upper Deck Gary Pettis and the 1993 Upper Deck Mike Perez. They also show the 1982 Fleer Pete Falcone, holding a picture of his 1981 Fleer card.

While the special effects involved in creating recursive cards are, I suppose, somewhat difficult, it has been easier for card companies to show players holding another card. For example, here is a 1999 Upper Deck Scott Karl, holding his 1998 Upper Deck Collectors Choice card.

Here is another Brewer, Ricky Bones, on his 1995 Topps card, holding a 1994 Topps card of himself.

In the 1985 Topps set, photographers caught Bryn Smith autographing a card for a fan. You can only see the back, and that orange and yellow color scheme would seem to indicate that it is a 1983 Topps he is signing.

Usually, card makers are smart enough to only display cards of their own manufacture. However, look closely at the 1990 Fleer Larry Sheets. Behind him on the dugout wall, there are 1989 Donruss cards of fellow Orioles Pete Harnisch and Curt Schilling.

If Fleer didn't fire their Orioles photo editor in 1989 after the Bill Ripken debacle, they certainly should have fired him in 1990 after he gave free advertising to a competing card company!
Are there any other example of players with cards on their cards, either from the same or another company?

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