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The throw to first must be fast to get double play. Shortstop takes ball hit on his left and… …tags second to force out runner from first. Disc 2 Infielder’s stance enables him to field or block ball. Both games started around 2:00 pm while the photos look to have been taken in the mid-morning with the sun getting high but still enough in the East to cast a distinct shadow.

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I like that this disc is basically a complete sequence of how to throw a pitch and I can totally see how it would have worked as an instructional item.īetween the matchups on the out-of-town scoreboard in and the San Diego on the game-day scoreboard this set appears to have been taken on April 21 or April 22. Pretty basic instructions but some of the images-such as the catcher giving the signs-were unexpected especially for what works in 3D. The first disc demonstrates pitching and features Gary Gentry. Release of ball on follow-through is up to pitcher. Pitcher’s forward stride is key to good control. Leg lift helps pitcher bring body and arm forward. The catcher gives the sign to pitcher, Gary Gentry Grips for fast ball (left) and curve ball (right) Pitcher winds up for the pitch. Disc 1 Pitcher “looks in” for sign from catcher. Anyway, the most fun part of these is scanning and making wiggle gifs so let’s get to those right away. I didn’t receive the booklet but these don’t look like they were really that instructional either. I went ahead and made composite scans of the discs this time so you can see both the printing and the images. Author Nick Vossbrink Posted on MaJCategories 2011–present, Design, Photography, Topps Tags gif 24 Comments on In which I get insulted by Topps Heritage View-Master Instructional Baseball Heritage instead is completely sterile and once you see how sterile it is you find yourself wishing for the awkwardness of the 1973 George Scott no matter how bad the compositing is. The photographer moves around the stadium so we end up with multiple views of the same place. Players are bundled up against the elements.

There are random dudes in the background. The difference though is that even with the sameness of location those cards have life to them. As much as I like those cards it’s a sad truth that many of them have the same handful of poses in front of the same kind of stadium background. It also shows that Topps is dialing up the worst qualities of their glory days. It offends me professionally as a designer and it disappoints me personally as someone who loves baseball cards. But still this level of templating is the kind of green screen photos that every family attraction used to ambush us with immediately after we entered the front gates. Creating a complete set is a lot of work. I’ve gone ahead and turned my twelve Giants cards into an animated gif that shows how the backgrounds are identical, right down to the exact same cloud formations. But I also expected a bit more effort from Topps instead of just pasting each player in front of a single stock background image. This isn’t wholly unexpected since many teams have been posting photo day shots on Twitter than show players posed in front of a green screen. Then I looked closer and realized that of fifteen cards in the base team set, twelve not only use the same background they in fact use the exact same background. *I haven’t really posted about these since I don’t know how to describe them but in short whatever photo processing Topps is doing to make things look older has bothered me for years. Some of the usual Heritage photo smoothing and fake trapping shenanigans* but that’s standard with the territory. At first I was extremely satisfied since at an individual card level things looked mostly nice. The only cards I got were my Giants team set courtesy of case break. I’m hoping the Twitter hive mind will turn up something like that here. I was mainly hoping for clever homages of the best things that 1973 did such as the Jack Brohamer and Mark Belanger pair of cards. And no impending trainwrecks like 1972/2021’s typesetting. No interesting reveals like 1971/2020’s black borders. No obvious things to improve upon or change like 1969/2018’s photography or 1970/2019’s grey borders. Given the simplicity of the 1973 design I wasn’t expecting to find enough for a post anyway. With cards only just making their way into retail stores I haven’t been able to procure even a blaster and so I’ve been unable to keep up with my annual dive into the printing weeds.