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..."
Great finds!
ReplyDeleteActually 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!