2025 Allen & Ginter Brandon Coleman

wdmullins · 12-17-2025, 12:27 PM

This card (#253) is of musician Brandon Coleman. The description in text on the back pretty clearly refers to this keyboardist:
https://brandoncolemanmusic.com/
who is Black.

But the picture on the front is of a White guitar player, who looks a lot like Brandon Laine Coleman of the country-rock band The Red Clay Strays:
https://www.redclaystrays.com/home

Did Topps screw this one up?

TimBuckTwo · 12-17-2025, 12:46 PM

The world is black, the world is white
It turns by day and then by night

Rictor · 12-17-2025, 01:55 PM

Letting AI write their card text?

Rictor · 12-17-2025, 01:56 PM

Gotta get one of them to sign the front and one to sign the back.

Highlander23 · 12-18-2025, 07:38 AM

Yeah- it's supposed to be the Red Clay Strays guy....never noticed they had a different write up on the back. Well done, Topps! I agree with the above that it is probably AI doing the writing.

dd316 · 12-18-2025, 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Highlander23

I agree with the above that it is probably AI doing the writing.

It's only going to get worse.

CicadaMound · 12-18-2025, 10:54 AM

It's one thing to misidentify a mediocre everyday player who deserves a card but isn't widely recognized, it's another to misidentify an unusual subject who you DELIBERATELY ADDED TO THE SET.

12-17-2025, 12:27 PM	#1
wdmullins Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 116 ubto62	2025 Allen & Ginter Brandon Coleman This card (#253) is of musician Brandon Coleman. The description in text on the back pretty clearly refers to this keyboardist: https://brandoncolemanmusic.com/ who is Black. But the picture on the front is of a White guitar player, who looks a lot like Brandon Laine Coleman of the country-rock band The Red Clay Strays: https://www.redclaystrays.com/home Did Topps screw this one up?

12-18-2025, 10:54 AM	#7
CicadaMound Member Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: Ohio Posts: 633 CicadaMound	It's one thing to misidentify a mediocre everyday player who deserves a card but isn't widely recognized, it's another to misidentify an unusual subject who you DELIBERATELY ADDED TO THE SET. __________________ Twitter: @Lamplighter42 IG @Lamplighter.42 Looking for autos/relics of cartoon voice actors - one role as confirmed on IMDb is enough to qualify.

12-17-2025, 12:46 PM	#2
TimBuckTwo Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 10,176	The world is black, the world is white It turns by day and then by night

12-17-2025, 01:55 PM	#3
Rictor Member Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 1,966 rictor1 rictor	Letting AI write their card text?

12-17-2025, 01:56 PM	#4
Rictor Member Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 1,966 rictor1 rictor	Gotta get one of them to sign the front and one to sign the back.

12-18-2025, 07:38 AM	#5
Highlander23 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central NY Posts: 1,547 tjcollectors Highlander23	Yeah- it's supposed to be the Red Clay Strays guy....never noticed they had a different write up on the back. Well done, Topps! I agree with the above that it is probably AI doing the writing.