nerdbaseball.com » suspiciously realistic rendering of rocks http://www.nerdbaseball.com Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 “Funny” Cards, Volume 3: Hall of Fame Caliber Player Edition http://www.nerdbaseball.com/2009/05/funny-cards-volume-3-hall-of-fame-caliber-player-edition/ http://www.nerdbaseball.com/2009/05/funny-cards-volume-3-hall-of-fame-caliber-player-edition/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 02:40:14 +0000 Nerdicus Finch http://www.nerdbaseball.com/?p=776 ]]> Tim Raines should be in the Hall of Fame and, hopefully, he will be in the not-too-distant future. But making a case for Raines’s enshrinement is not the purpose of this post. Rather, this is the third entry in Nerd Baseball’s “funny” card series and it features Raines’s 1990 Topps card. Isn’t it strange how some baseball card companies used the player’s nickname, while others didn’t? I guess it was an editorial decision. Thankfully, Topps decided to use Raines’s nickname on its 1990 card, otherwise my ten-year-old self would not have been able to come up with yet another incredibly literal “funny” card.

rock-raines6A few notes on this “funny” card:

  1. I’m surprised by how much the rocks actually look like rocks. Based on some of my other efforts, I’m going to have to assume that I had my sister make the rocks.
  2. I obviously preferred Scotch tape to glue stick, although the glue stick might have been the better choice for presentation purposes.
  3. I found this “funny” card in a box of old baseball cards at my parents’ summer home this past weekend. There were several others in the box as well, none of which are funny, and all of which I plan to feature on Nerd Baseball.
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