Saturday, March 28, 2009

Another goofy 1983 Fleer card

Like many, I greatly enjoy the 1983 Fleer set. There is of course the famous 1983 Fleer autograph project. Sully Baseball also had a cool retrospective of cards from that set, as it turns out - check it out here. He makes fun of the set for its weird pictures, but that's exactly why I like the set so much. That and the steel-gray border and the Arial font.

Here's a picture that wasn't in Sully's retrospective that I find very interesting.

It's not just interesting for Dennis Leonard's awesome mustache and sideburns or the sunflower seed stuck in his teeth. No, it is the fact that Fleer took a picture of him fraternizing with the umpires. Fraternizing? Heck, one of them is practically giving him a massage! "Here, Dennis, let me rub that big strong shoulder of yours!"

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