A few months back I had a discussion with
Sean that lead to
a post about some 1988 Calbee cards that appeared to feature pictures taken from a TV screen, (He later did
a post about a Bill Gullickson card from that set that also appeared to feature a picture taken from a TV screen.) I recently picked up a bunch of Calbee cards from the 1980's from Ebay and as I was putting them away, I noticed that I had a couple cards from 1987 that also appeared to be photographs of TV screens:
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| 1987 Calbee #377 Hiromitsu Ochiai |
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| 1987 Calbee #378 Carlos Ponce |
The
Calbee Collector's web page for 1987 shows a couple cards that he suspects as having TV images - one is the Ochiai card above and the other is card #376 of Suguru Egawa. Since these three cards are in sequence, I'm kind of curious what the other cards around them look like.
Calbee's late-80's laziness does not appear to be limited to not wanting to send photographers to the ballpark. Check out these two 1989 cards of Yukihiro Nishizaki of the Fighters:
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| 1989 Calbee #157 |
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| 1989 Calbee #217 |
You can almost hear the editor in Calbee's office going "Don't worry about it. We'll just crop the photo differently. No one will ever notice..."
1 comment:
Great finds!
Actually it is funny, I was just going to do a similar post. After looking through my 1987s I noticed a few that looked like TV screen grabs (particularly a couple of the gold-bordered cards, in addition to the ones you spotted in this post)!
I find it amusing because there are actually some really quality, in-action photos on a lot of the cards in the set, but on some they are just mind-bogglingly lazy!
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