Have wanted to get back to this series for a while.
Here we have Ralph Rooney, a Miami Supersonics player from Eric’s (International) League. This card is based on the Topps 1978 design. Once again, I very much enjoyed the process of matching the fonts, colors, and design of the card back–maybe as much as drawing the player. The only thing I couldn’t solve here was removing the gridlines in the statistics section.
About that drawing… I didn’t have it in me to draw a catcher and umpire, so this “shot” would have to have been taken during an unusually well-attended pregame batting practice. In the original drawing, more of the crowd was shown, including the Hot Pocket crew, late actor Terry-Thomas, and some other… goings on.
The model I used for this drawing was Prince Fielder.
On the Topps 1978 cards, the “Play Ball” feature on the back was a way to play a League-like game: each card had an outcome (strikeout, single, etc), and game results would unfold as you drew cards. Needless to say, the outcome here was NOT featured in the original Topps set.
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This is just fantastic. You know, aside from the triples, those cumulative stats are very realistic numbers for a single season in MLB for a slugger. As for his weight, a lot of Ralph’s singles would be doubles or even triples for faster players.
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