David Wright: Selfish Time Traveler?

We at The Apple love baseball cards.  In particular, we love the 2010 Topps baseball cards because of all the great inserts of old time players.  So you can imagine our surprise when we opened a pack of cards and this fell out.  This is a 1951 Topps David Wright "Red Back".

Now of course the logical assumption would be that this a modern day reprint based on an old style, right?  Yeah we're not buying that either.  What we believe we have here is a mystery worthy of a Dan Brown novel and the most definitive proof of time travel ever recorded.

At first we marveled at Wright's magnificence.  Here is a man who time traveled to decades before he was born, got the city to prematurely invent a fourth baseball franchise, and play well enough on that franchise to be immortalized on a card.  Truly, this is an incredible man.   

Not so fast.   The more we thought about the angrier we got.  Here is a man with all this power and he squandered it on baseball.  If Wright was truly walking around in 1950, surely there were more pressing issues he could have addressed.   Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, O.J.'s wife?  Wright could have warned us about all these things.  Instead, what does he do?  He plays baseball.

Who the hell does David Wright think he is?

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