Night Owl Cards

  I finished my 2023 Topps Heritage High Numbers Dodgers team set when the last three cards arrived Thursday and Friday.   They're all horizontals, in keeping with the 1974 Topps theme, although I think '23 Heritage went a little bit overboard with them.     Just one of the players is currently with the Dodgers now as Busch was traded to Tampa Bay and  Hernandez is supposed to be joining another team soon. (Update: He's apparently coming back to the Dodgers ).   The Hernandez card is a short-print but it didn't cost me much, barely over a buck.   It's also a card that "rights a wrong" if you're into the editorial sanctity of photos (which Topps definitely is not -- lots of evidence over the decades on that).  The Hernandez card probably looks familiar to some collectors, most probably Red Sox collectors, who first came across the image in the 2021 Topps flagship set. It's another great photo on a Kiké Hernandez card. This was one of the better car...

Almost a month ago, I wrote a post chronicling 10 awesomely awful airbrushed Dodgers . At the end I promised a similar rundown for our modern world, namely 10 photoshop disasters in Dodger garb. Photoshop is an interesting weapon. It can perform wondrous miracles and hilarious comedy, but too often it falls into the wrong hands and produces crimes against photography ... and hilarious comedy. It is very easy to play God with photoshop and we've seen alarming sights on cards such as the lower left foot of an umpire abandoned next to Manny Ramirez: But mostly, photoshopping is used on cards to update players into the uniforms of their new team, just like Topps did in the old days with airbrushing. Most of the time, a photoshopped picture on a card doesn't look as comically awful as an airbrushed picture. But there are still some beauties from recent years. I can't tell you when photoshopping first started with cards, it was probably during the time when I wasn...