I'm starting a new mini-series that will compare the original 1959 Topps set to it's Heritage counterpart in 2008. I was going to tackle the 1971/2020 pairings, and while I have the whole set of '71 Topps, I'm not quite done with Heritage. So I figured I do have both of the '08 combination, so let's see how they match up.
Well, card number 1 was Strike 1 right away. I guess Topps didn't want to shell out cash to use the images of MLB executives (or managers for that matter - there aren't any) in Heritage, so card #1 is Vlad Guerrero. No offense to Vladdy, but here's what Heritage #1 should have looked like:
Remember, this is 12 years ago, so Manfred wasn't the Commish yet. It was an easy transformation from the original Commish card. Found a font that pretty much matched, and then just had to remove the photo, extend the background and paste in the new picture.
Stay tuned for the Heritage pairups/mismatches posts!
Head's up, Greg, your second photo isn't showing for whatever reason.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Fixed it. Had it from an URL, but switched it to an uploaded photo.
DeleteTopps did a great job on the Frick... and you did a great job on the Selig.
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