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Wife cards

I missed a lot of things by ignoring cards for half of the 1990s, and I can't say I regret it most of the time. Amid all of the innovation and mass quantities of sets was some really weird stuff. I wish I had never witnessed the fashion shoots that were disguised as draft pick cards in the early '90s. And the cards where players are parading around with their shirts off? Please, find the person who thought that up and fire them. And if they've already been fired, fire them from their current job. Although the '90s could produce such fantastic out-of-context cards like this , for the most part I don't really want to see my baseball players in cowboy hats or fishing or barbecuing. I want to see them baseballing. But the '90s really wanted you to see the athletes doing things other than why you were collecting their cards. They wanted you to get to know them. What are their interests, their talents? Who are their family members? Where do they like to hang out...