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Originally Posted by Triphunter
Committed to the Thiele run so will pick it up. Going to pretend that the Williams was the apex of the creativity/madness and we are now riding the wave back down closer to what was initially presented.
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What I liked about Thieles' early cards was that the original player pictures held the foreground and then all the other stuff was more faded and subtle. The other photos were kind of like ghosts, with old ticket stubs and scorebook pages and stadium references.
His non-Topps art has a cool scavenger vibe to it and it seemed to me like Tyson Beck was making his cards with stuff a student has at their desk and Thiele was making his cards with stuff he found on the ground outside an old stadium.
I do like the 'welcome to Oakland' postcard imagery but everything is all on one layer and my eye can't process it all pleasurably.
I also think 'big Rickey' crowds out the original 'little Rickey' too much, similar to his Jeter card, and makes it seem more like a poster than a card.