nerdbaseball.com » not really a nerd http://www.nerdbaseball.com Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Ernest Riles http://www.nerdbaseball.com/2009/05/ernest-riles/ http://www.nerdbaseball.com/2009/05/ernest-riles/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 10:36:01 +0000 I Love Nerd York City http://www.nerdbaseball.com/?p=727 ]]> While not a nerd, per se, I just had to share what might be the most inexplicable baseball card in the nerd archives.

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Seriously.  What is going on here?

1) According to wikipedia and baseball-reference, Fleer misspelled Mr. Riles first name (Ernest, not Earnest).

2) He was obviously posing in his batting stance.  Whose decision was it to let his head overlap the border, but let the bat get cut off so it looks like he’s in some strange yoga pose?

3) Really?  You can’t show his whole body?  Is there a precedent for this type of photo cropping?

4) Did someone take a landscape shot of the outfield grass, and then photoshop Mr. Riles into it, except they didn’t know how to resize the second image?

I demand answers.  And despite having a career OPS+ of 89, Mr. Riles deserves better.

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